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President Trump says the U.S. could move on Iran's Pickaxe Mountain very soon — and that Washington knows everybody moving at the site. The...
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Ukraine War
Russians are withdrawing billions of dollars per month from the country’s banks, with $24.7 billion withdrawn in 2026 alone.
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...
Military Hardware: Tanks, Bombers, Submarines and More
Seven months into the Iran conflict, the author argues Washington faces a war it can escalate indefinitely but cannot easily end on its stated...
Military Hardware: Tanks, Bombers, Submarines and More
Saudi Arabia plans to retaliate against the Houthis and has informed its allies, CNN reports, after the biggest strike on the kingdom yet pushed...
Military Hardware: Tanks, Bombers, Submarines and More
Seven months after the February strikes, critics charge that Washington's fight to keep Hormuz open has crowded out the war's nuclear goal. Iran's near-weapons-grade...
Ukraine War
Hours after the three-day pause on capital strikes expired, Russia hit Ukraine's capital with drones, decoys, and missiles, damaging fourteen apartment buildings, a school,...
Ukraine War
The White House says both sides discussed substantive next steps to be announced in the coming weeks. Zelensky, describing the talks as very substantial,...
Ukraine War
During Putin's Eastern Economic Forum, China's sixth-ranked leader asked Ukraine not to strike Vladivostok — and Ukraine agreed, Kyodo reports, possibly expecting Beijing to...
The Treaty
The Houthis declared a blockade of Saudi shipping in the Red Sea and vowed a siege-for-siege policy, just as Riyadh reportedly reroutes most 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...
Dollars and Sense
President Trump has touted the Hormuz blockade as a success, but a new CNN analysis argues the pressure is pushing Iran toward military escalation...
Dollars and Sense
Iran's Parliament Speaker has named the next target class: U.S.-linked oil and gas infrastructure across the Gulf, which he calls sprawling, accessible and exposed...
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...
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...
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...
Military Hardware: Tanks, Bombers, Submarines and More
Saturday's tanker strikes point to the reported tanker-for-tanker strategy: an economic cost imposed on Iran for every attack, without a wider bombing campaign. Meanwhile...