Military Hardware: Tanks, Bombers, Submarines and More
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The Treaty
A Lebanon Ceasefire is Just a Poison Pill: Having signed a Memorandum of Understanding with Iran, President Donald Trump is triumphant in rhetoric. While...
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...
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
Ukraine hit Moscow with around 200 drones in a single night — likely its largest strike on the capital of the war — setting...
Ukraine War
As Russia overwhelms Ukraine's air defenses with ever-bigger barrages, Ukraine wants to build America's best Patriot interceptor itself — and Zelensky says Trump "responded...
Ukraine War
The FSB just arrested Ilya Traber — a St. Petersburg crime boss nicknamed "the Antiquarian" who, in the 1990s, was so close to a...
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
Summary and Key Points: For more than three decades, the official story of the SR-71 Blackbird’s retirement has been simple: the legendary spy plane...
Military Hardware: Tanks, Bombers, Submarines and More
Summary and Key Points: China is building aircraft carriers at a pace not seen since World War II. By 2035, the Pentagon expects Beijing...