Dollars and Sense
In recent months, Ukraine’s campaign against Russia’s supply lines in the rear has yielded noticeable effects, particularly in the Russian-occupied region of Crimea. Originally...
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The Treaty
The Iran deal will be sold as peace through strength, but two numbers tell a different story: America's strategic oil reserve has fallen to...
The Treaty
The conventional wisdom says ending the Iran war helps Trump politically. One analyst argues the reverse — noting that George H.W. Bush had 89%...
Ukraine War
Kyiv was supposed to fall in three days. It didn't. The war wasn't supposed to last four years. It has. That record, this analysis...
The Treaty
Rather than telling Europe how much to spend on its defense, the Trump administration should begin a phased military disengagement from the continent.
Military Hardware: Tanks, Bombers, Submarines and More
The signed Iran deal opens the Strait of Hormuz "without charge" — for 60 days only. After that, the text hands the strait's future...
Military Hardware: Tanks, Bombers, Submarines and More
Washington has released the full signed Iran deal — a 14-point agreement that freezes Tehran's nuclear program without forcing it to give it up....
Military Hardware: Tanks, Bombers, Submarines and More
Crimea is Russia's summer beach getaway — but this year the resorts sit empty. Ukrainian drones have choked the peninsula's fuel supply, and a...
Ukraine War
Putin won't be toppled tomorrow — he's spent years coup-proofing his rule. But this analysis argues his invasion of Ukraine may prove the slow...
Ukraine War
Ukraine hit Moscow again overnight — but the bigger story is what it represents: a middle power now routinely striking a nuclear superpower's capital...
Ukraine War
A vocal Putin critic — an exiled Russian artist who mocked the Kremlin in his work — has been shot dead in Poland, days...
The Treaty
Here's a telling sign about the Iran deal: hardliners in both Tehran and Washington hate it — which may mean it's a real compromise....
The Treaty
Did Trump cave to Iran? The deal's full terms stay hidden until Friday's signing — and one analyst lays out what critics fear is...
The Treaty
For decades the U.S.-Israel bond was called unbreakable. Trump's Iran deal is testing it. Israel asked to see the agreement; Washington said no. Trump...
Dollars and Sense
Trump just admitted what drove the Iran deal: "We run out of reserves in about four weeks." Staying at war, he warned, could have...
Dollars and Sense
The leaked Iran deal includes a $300 billion reconstruction fund — and one analyst says the optics could burn Trump, even though the White...
Dollars and Sense
The Iran war may end Friday, but one shift it triggered could be permanent: the oil business moving from Hormuz to Houston. The UAE...
North Korea Talk
North Korea stalled, negotiated, and built the bomb anyway — and its 2022 doctrine orders everything launched if its leaders are ever struck. Kim...
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...
North Korea Talk
Manila, Philippines – On the occasion of his visit to Pyongyang, Chinese Communist Party (CCP) General Secretary Xi Jinping has received one of the...
Military Hardware: Tanks, Bombers, Submarines and More
What It Took To Fly The SR-71 Blackbird, And All The Ways It Could Kill You: Only 93 Air Force pilots ever flew the...
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...