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Dollars and Sense
Confidential Ukrainian military audits obtained by the New York Times amount to an autopsy of the country's weapons contracting: most purchases ran through middlemen...
Dollars and Sense
Pressure on the White House is arriving from every direction: former Air Force Secretary Frank Kendall is asking what advice led the president into...
Ukraine War
Vnukovo and Sheremetyevo halted flights for a second consecutive night, with hundreds of delays logged across the capital's network. Ukraine says it will step...
Dollars and Sense
Iran International reports hundreds of medicines in short supply. A pharmacists' association official says alternative import routes could triple drug costs, with currency shortages...
Military Hardware: Tanks, Bombers, Submarines and More
The Iran war will likely run another six months without resolution, Leon Panetta tells the Guardian — a terrible stalemate with few exits, on...
Military Hardware: Tanks, Bombers, Submarines and More
The Iran war's costs will outlast the fighting: Asian LNG has more than doubled, container carriers have absorbed billions in extra fuel costs, and...
Military Hardware: Tanks, Bombers, Submarines and More
Ukraine's capital spent fifty-two hours under air-raid alert in just six days, Le Monde found, as Russia's jet-powered drones — more than twenty-eight hundred...
Ukraine War
Hours after Witkoff and Kushner departed, Ukrainian drones struck at least fourteen Russian regions — setting fire to one of Russia's largest refineries and...
Ukraine War
Putin has admitted a monumental miscalculation: the Kremlin assumed its oil refineries were civilian sites no one would strike — 'we were mistaken,' he...
Ukraine War
Steve Witkoff and Jared Kushner landed in Moscow carrying what President Trump calls a concrete proposal — an idea for peace — ahead of...
The Treaty
Energy Secretary Chris Wright says more than seventeen million barrels moved through Hormuz on Monday — a wartime record that, counting pipeline bypasses, puts...
The Treaty
President Trump suggested Friday that U.S. forces may soon attack Iran's fortified Pickaxe Mountain — even as new polling shows a majority of Americans...
The Treaty
Trump asked on Truth Social whether the Strait of Hormuz should be renamed the Trump Strait now that he says it is under U.S....
Dollars and Sense
Iran will double its third-tier gasoline price from Monday to contain fuel shortages — drivers are sleeping in cars to queue, and the country...
Dollars and Sense
Oil prices have climbed to their highest levels in six weeks as the tanker war escalates: Hegseth vows to destroy and sink Iranian tankers...
Dollars and Sense
Iran is bracing for a long economic war: annual inflation is running near two-thirds, wages cover less than a third of a basic household...
North Korea Talk
Georgia Gilholy reports on Lavrov's world-order message to Pyongyang, Zelensky's claim that up to fifty thousand more troops could follow the Kursk deployment, Reuters-reported...
North Korea Talk
Trump ordered joint exercises with South Korea scaled back and praised Kim Jong-Un, drawing sharp criticism as Seoul stays muted.
North Korea Talk
Roughly 9,500 are already there. Reuters reports North Korean supplies have at times covered around half of Russia's frontline munitions, and the next contingent...
The Treaty
Would Australia ever consider a purchase or even leasing older, U.S. navy nuclear-powered attack submarines? The idea seemed almost crazy nearly ten years ago...