The Treaty
Almost four years ago to the day, a Russian oligarch was recorded on an audio tape as saying that Russian President Vladimir Putin was...
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Ukraine War
On the night of 14 August, Ukrainian forces hit the Ust-Luga port in Russia’s Leningrad Oblast, the region that encompasses Russia’s second city, St. Petersburg. The...
Dollars and Sense
Brent settled at $88.52 on Friday after a week of tanker attacks and no diplomatic movement. Washington's plan is to wait Tehran out —...
Ukraine War
DeepState counted 19 settlements regained and Russians pushed back in six more areas. The Institute for the Study of War documented significant advances. A...
Ukraine War
A Fox report details a 'dangerous new front': the executives and engineers behind drone technology are being hunted. A Russian FPV-drone boss was critically...
Military Hardware: Tanks, Bombers, Submarines and More
An IRGC adviser told PBS that prolonging the war until the next presidency is one way to build deterrence. Washington's answer has shifted from...
Military Hardware: Tanks, Bombers, Submarines and More
Sea drones once forced Russia to move its Black Sea Fleet from Sevastopol to Novorossiysk. This week Ukraine reached Novorossiysk too, and the argument...
Military Hardware: Tanks, Bombers, Submarines and More
The Feodosia oil terminal is out of action, the Chonhar bridge has been damaged, and fuel trucks have been hit near Armiansk. Almost everything...
Ukraine War
Reuben F. Johnson reports Poland's ABW, tipped by US intelligence, arrested a Russian national accused of plotting to assassinate a dual US-Ukrainian citizen in...
Ukraine War
Jack Buckby reports a Spanish fighter downed a suspected Russian drone over Romania as Ukraine sent hundreds of drones toward Moscow overnight and Russia...
Ukraine War
The same night brought strikes on an air base housing the jets that carry Kinzhal missiles and on Russia's second-largest Baltic oil export port....
The Treaty
Some appear to have been made with AI, and a semi-governmental design house is producing many of them. Online, a British think tank tracked...
The Treaty
US President Donald J. Trump has said the Strait of Hormuz will be made a U.S. territory. Speaking at a Long Island police training...
The Treaty
Pakistan again says a US-Iran arrangement is taking shape — but the author notes Islamabad was optimistic before the last deal, which collapsed days...
Dollars and Sense
Reuben F. Johnson reports VEB economist Andrei Klepach told an elite Moscow forum that Russia is losing the economic race 'not only to China...
Dollars and Sense
“I know that oil is down today and it’s way down from the highs in the early days of the conflict,” Vance said. “That’s...
Dollars and Sense
Households in Iran are cutting back on food, medicine and utilities. One trade official says shifting a single ship's cargo overland would take about...
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...
North Korea Talk
Ukraine's defense intelligence says Russian missile factories exceeded July's production targets across the board, even as Moscow leans on ballistic missiles from Pyongyang and,...
North Korea Talk
More than 120 Shahed-style drones flew as well, and Kyiv says they were upgraded jet-powered versions of the Iranian design. Russia has now taken...
Military Hardware: Tanks, Bombers, Submarines and More
China is reportedly developing a stealthy medium-range bomber called the JH-XX or JH-36—a tailless, delta-winged aircraft with three engines that could strike Taiwan, Guam,...
Military Hardware: Tanks, Bombers, Submarines and More
The U.S. Army was developing an upgraded M60A4 main battle tank that would have featured enhanced armor, improved fire control, and a refined engine/transmission—a...