Dollars and Sense
Brandon J. Weichert argues the Iran-Oman arrangement now in its final stages is nothing like the deal Trump describes. Citing Al Jazeera, Reuters, and...
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Ukraine War
Unlike the shortage that ran from May to July, this one has reached the Moscow region. Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan and Tajikistan buy their processed fuel...
Ukraine War
Reuben F. Johnson argues Putin's remaining strategy is to out-suffer Ukraine: the economist fired for saying Russia is falling behind, ISW data showing stalled...
Military Hardware: Tanks, Bombers, Submarines and More
Jack Buckby breaks down the weekend's deep strikes: FP-1 drones hit a Rosneft refinery and reach Ozon, seven of Wildberries' ten biggest hubs sit...
Military Hardware: Tanks, Bombers, Submarines and More
The report said the 5,000 people on the aircraft carrier “went without basic supplies,” including toothpaste, deodorant, and soap, for long stretches of its...
Military Hardware: Tanks, Bombers, Submarines and More
Seoul draws a distinction worth noting: shortening Ulchi Freedom Shield was the president's political choice, but canceling this one was capacity. Marines have moved...
Military Hardware: Tanks, Bombers, Submarines and More
Jack Buckby examines the job Trump has handed Scott Bessent: enforcing history's toughest sanctions against an Iran built to survive them, with China refusing...
Military Hardware: Tanks, Bombers, Submarines and More
Jack Buckby reports on a split screen from Tehran: President Pezeshkian calls for ending the war while Iran holds leverage, the armed forces chief...
Ukraine War
More than a dozen Ukrainian strike drones have crossed into Baltic and Finnish airspace since March. Governments are also hardening dams, power stations and...
Ukraine War
Moscow's ambassador to the UN says a mass call-up is neither planned nor expected, without denying it outright. Covert mobilization has reportedly continued throughout...
Ukraine War
The last mass mobilization emptied flights and jammed border crossings. This one is expected to fall on the provinces rather than the capital, and...
The Treaty
Pyongyang's earlier deployments went into the fighting and took heavy losses. This one is meant to free Russian troops for offensive operations, and to...
The Treaty
With Trump term-limited, the vice president is the likeliest nominee — and the war is the thing he can neither run toward nor away...
The Treaty
Going dark hides tankers from Iranian targeting and from the commercial trackers at the same time, which is why public counts show a trickle...
Dollars and Sense
The rial has hit a record low against the dollar and the IMF sees inflation nearing seventy percent. The Associated Press notes the pressure...
Dollars and Sense
Reuben F. Johnson maps the widening e-commerce war: twelve of Wildberries' fifteen biggest warehouses reportedly hit, three Ozon hubs burned in three nights, and...
Dollars and Sense
Jack Buckby examines Iran's badly timed discovery: a Fars province field worth fifteen years of a South Pars phase, announced while war-damaged plants await...
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...
The Treaty
Steve Balestrieri reports that Trump wants an Iran-Oman deal on the strait within a day, warning of what he calls decapitation strikes and describing...
Military Hardware: Tanks, Bombers, Submarines and More
Dr. Robert E. Kelly argues the Iran war has exposed the limits of America's exquisite-weapons model, with stockpile depletion now shaping Trump's escalation choices....