Dollars and Sense
Oil flows through the Strait of Hormuz, which had recovered to about eighty percent of prewar levels, are slipping again as tanker incidents spread...
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Ukraine War
Ukraine still wants to join NATO, but one analyst argues membership seems unlikely for the foreseeable future. Admission requires every member to agree, no...
The Treaty
Ukrainian policymakers have been prepared to accept a comprehensive settlement since 1991, a front-line ceasefire since 2022, and have refrained from striking Russian civilian...
Military Hardware: Tanks, Bombers, Submarines and More
Zelensky told Fox News that Ukraine would accept a ceasefire freezing the war along current front lines, even without recovering all occupied territory. The...
Military Hardware: Tanks, Bombers, Submarines and More
Poland scrambled fighter jets twice over the weekend as Russian air attacks hit western Ukraine near its border. Meanwhile, The Wall Street Journal reports...
Military Hardware: Tanks, Bombers, Submarines and More
Ukraine’s drone campaign against Russian refineries is driving up repair costs and squeezing Rosneft, leaving the industry reeling, Bloomberg reports. High oil prices and...
Military Hardware: Tanks, Bombers, Submarines and More
Iran is warning it could hit Gulf data centers, undersea internet cables and energy installations if U.S. and Israeli strikes resume. The White House...
Military Hardware: Tanks, Bombers, Submarines and More
Eight months into the war with Iran, oil spills are spreading across the Persian Gulf, and one analyst warns the bigger danger is to...
Ukraine War
Russia fired twenty-one ballistic missiles at Kyiv in three waves overnight, Zelensky says, as Moscow reported hundreds of Ukrainian drones, hours after Trump’s envoy...
Ukraine War
Russia and Ukraine traded massive strikes overnight, with Russia firing about twenty-one ballistic missiles at Kyiv and knocking out power, and Ukraine sending hundreds...
Ukraine War
Drone saturation has pushed both armies in Ukraine underground, and Soviet-era gas pipelines have become hidden routes to the enemy’s rear. Russia used them...
The Treaty
In a new Washington Post column, conservative commentator George Will argues Trump is increasingly aligning US policy with Putin, easing sanctions on Russian diesel...
The Treaty
Iran says the Strait of Hormuz could reopen once the US lifts its blockade and returns to a collapsed memorandum, terms Tehran has offered...
The Treaty
Something Strange Is Happening to Iran: Hardliners Are Now Making It Clear They Want Nuclear Weapons
Iran’s hardliners are now openly calling for nuclear weapons, with a senior lawmaker urging Tehran to build a bomb and conduct an actual test....
Dollars and Sense
Gulf oil exports have climbed back above prewar levels in some cases, Kpler data shows, but moving crude out of the region remains costly...
Dollars and Sense
Young men helped return Trump to the White House, but new polling suggests many are turning away. Harvard’s Youth Poll shows Democrats leading by...
Dollars and Sense
Trump’s UN ambassador told the Financial Times the standoff with Iran could last until this time next year and the US naval blockade can...
North Korea Talk
Ukraine quietly handed two captured North Korean soldiers to South Korea — a transfer Seoul says was supposed to stay secret, and one that...
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.
Dollars and Sense
An NBC News report finds Trump drawing much smaller crowds than in past campaigns, about eight thousand in Mobile, Alabama, versus some thirty thousand...
Military Hardware: Tanks, Bombers, Submarines and More
The IRGC says an Iranian sea mine set a supertanker ablaze in the Strait of Hormuz, and it warns that ships crossing with tracking...