Dollars and Sense
Jack Buckby analyzes Washington's pivot from strikes to economic warfare against Iran, the new sanctions operation aimed at isolating Tehran, Beijing's blunt refusal to...
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Military Hardware: Tanks, Bombers, Submarines and More
When the Iran war began, analysts warned oil could reach levels double today's — yet prices only just crossed triple digits. S&P's chief economist...
Military Hardware: Tanks, Bombers, Submarines and More
The Houthis say the strikes answered Saudi attacks on Yemeni provinces the day before. Government forces meanwhile report gains across four provinces and are...
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Russians are withdrawing billions of dollars per month from the country’s banks, with $24.7 billion withdrawn in 2026 alone.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...
Military Hardware: Tanks, Bombers, Submarines and More
Two industry sources tell Reuters the Rosneft-owned Ryazan refinery suspended operations after Sunday's Ukrainian drone strike — both primary units down, a weeks-long closure...
Military Hardware: Tanks, Bombers, Submarines and More
Trump conceded that the Iran war will not end before the midterms — immediately after, he predicts, because Iran is desperate to swing the...
Military Hardware: Tanks, Bombers, Submarines and More
The Houthis captured the Red Sea port of Mocha in a drive to control Yemen's coast, per the Guardian — pushing pressure toward two...
Ukraine War
Ukraine’s Special Operations Forces (SSO) said this week that it has struck a pair of Russian gas plants in Russia’s Yamalo-Nenets region, in what...
Ukraine War
Zelensky says Ukraine struck eight Russian infrastructure sites in one night across six regions, Arctic to Caspian — a wartime record for depth at...
Ukraine War
Ukraine's Special Operations Forces flew FP-1 drones more than eighteen hundred miles to hit two gas-condensate facilities around Novy Urengoy — the war's deepest...
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
Trump told a Dallas convention crowd the Iran war ends right after the midterms, accusing Tehran of dragging it out to swing the election....
Dollars and Sense
The escalation is reaching the workarounds that kept crude moving: the IRGC is threatening vessels in Kuwait and Bahrain ports over U.S. cooperation, a...
Dollars and Sense
Oil touched its highest since July after the Houthi attack on Saudi oil, and the pain is landing at American pumps: records on Labor...
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...
Ukraine War
Stephen Silver reports on the new British prime minister's first foreign trip, a landmark deal letting Ukraine manufacture Storm Shadow cruise missiles on its...
Ukraine War
Stephen Silver reports on mounting signs that Russia is straining to fill its ranks, from alleged press-ganging in one Russian town to Ukrainian intelligence...