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The Treaty
Trump calls it a chess game and says he's only semi-negotiating. Meanwhile the demands Iran once reserved for nuclear talks are attached to the...
Ukraine War
The alliance's mutual-defense clause has been triggered once in seventy-six years, after 9/11. It was written before cyberwarfare existed, and that ambiguity is exactly...
Ukraine War
The likeliest place is a narrow corridor between Kaliningrad and Belarus — NATO's only land route to the Baltics. The goal wouldn't be territory....
Ukraine War
Most likely to bring Putin to his knees is Ukraine’s progressive strangulation of Crimea. If Russian soldiers and civilians continue to flee the peninsula,...
Military Hardware: Tanks, Bombers, Submarines and More
Kyiv's partners have given $300 billion and counting — the problem isn't will, it's arithmetic. America burned two-thirds of its Patriots on Iran, Moscow...
Military Hardware: Tanks, Bombers, Submarines and More
One new appointee led the assault on Kyiv and the Kursk counterattack. The other reportedly planned Avdiivka's fall and now runs Russia's drones. The...
Military Hardware: Tanks, Bombers, Submarines and More
The numbers behind the blowup: roughly 800 Patriot interceptors left of 2,330, THAAD stocks slashed, ATACMS nearly gone, Tomahawks at half of plan —...
Ukraine War
One seller told Reuters his sales fell by half in a month with almost nothing being delivered. Wildberries changed its terms of use days...
Ukraine War
Eight hundred workers ran from a burning logistics center in Yekaterinburg while air defense guns fired overhead. Nobody was hurt. But across Russia, franchise...
Ukraine War
The Patriot is the only system that reliably stops these missiles, America hasn't got enough to spare, and output won't rise much before 2030....
The Treaty
Withdraw the forces, lift the blockade, drop the sanctions, release the frozen assets, pay for the damage, and stop the threats. That's Tehran's price....
The Treaty
Washington says it will lift the blockade and let Iran sell oil again. Tehran's foreign minister says that still isn't enough to open the...
The Treaty
The war was pitched as four days to five weeks. Six months later, Hormuz is still closed, the Houthis hold Bab el-Mandeb, and Iran's...
Dollars and Sense
Iran controls the inbound lane. Oman controls outbound. The nuclear question goes back to a table it never left. For a president who sorts...
Dollars and Sense
Exxon's Gulf plants ran at 95 percent last quarter, Chevron's at 97, Shell's above 102. Those numbers look like strength. They describe an industry...
Dollars and Sense
Russia doesn't have enough air defenses to guard Moscow, its nuclear sites, and its refineries all at once. Every choice leaves something exposed —...
North Korea Talk
Reuben F. Johnson reports that an official with Ukraine's Defense Intelligence Service says a North Korean missile unit has begun deploying personnel, missiles and...
North Korea Talk
Jack Buckby reports that Ukraine's Main Intelligence Directorate told Reuters a North Korean missile unit has begun deploying to Russia's Voronezh region, potentially bringing...
North Korea Talk
North Korea and Russia are finishing their first-ever road bridge, officially economic but believed to be a covert military supply route—trucks are far harder...
Military Hardware: Tanks, Bombers, Submarines and More
Russia Is One of the World’s Great Oil Powers. It Just Cut Exports to Keep Its Own Gas Stations Open
Russia is facing a mounting fuel shortage in occupied Crimea and throughout southern regions of the country following a sustained Ukrainian campaign that has...
Ukraine War
Russia's Tu-160 "White Swan" is the largest, fastest strategic bomber flying anywhere on Earth — and Moscow can barely use it. A new open-source...