North Korea Talk
The recent North Korea–China summit highlights Beijing’s increasing concern over Moscow’s growing influence in Pyongyang. Since the Ukraine war began, Russia and North Korea...
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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
The drones are the length of a compact SUV, cruise at 100 mph, and get handed to a second team mid-flight. They now reach...
Military Hardware: Tanks, Bombers, Submarines and More
Reopening Hormuz was never one of the stated war aims. Preventing an Iranian bomb was. If the B-2 raid on Fordow already settled that...
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...
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
Neither side can force the other to fold, and neither is talking directly anymore. Iran has survived two rounds of maximum pressure already. Meanwhile...
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...
Dollars and Sense
The administration says 8 to 8.5 million barrels move through the strait each night. An independent tracking firm counts closer to 3 million a...
Dollars and Sense
Diesel is above five dollars a gallon against $3.72 a year ago, prediction markets give better than even odds the blockade ends by September...
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...
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
As the West screams about Russia’s impending industrial collapse due to the unexpected strain of the long-running Ukraine War, Russia’s United Aircraft Corporation (UAC)...
Military Hardware: Tanks, Bombers, Submarines and More
The head of Russia’s United Aircraft Corporation claims that work on what many assumed was an aspirational warplane, the Su-75 “Checkmate,” has progressed from...