Ukraine War
Key Points and Summary – Zaporizhzhia, Europe’s largest nuclear plant, is cooling its shut-down reactors on diesel after its last external power line was...
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The Treaty
For four years Putin projected nothing but confidence. This weekend that cracked: he admitted Russia faces a fuel deficit as Ukrainian drones torched yet...
Ukraine War
Ukraine has done real damage deep inside Russia — burning refineries, hunting fuel convoys, turning the rear into a battlefield Moscow can no longer...
Ukraine War
Crimea is the territory Putin prized above every other conquest — and right now it's blacked out, rationing fuel, and under emergency rule his...
Ukraine War
Russia's air defenses are built to catch threats that come in fast and low. Ukraine's newest deep-strike weapon is neither — it falls silently...
Military Hardware: Tanks, Bombers, Submarines and More
Putin declared this weekend that Russian forces are close to taking Kostiantynivka, the southern anchor of Ukraine's eastern fortress belt and the gateway to...
Military Hardware: Tanks, Bombers, Submarines and More
Oil prices have fallen back to where they sat before the Iran war, and tankers are streaming out of the Strait of Hormuz —...
Military Hardware: Tanks, Bombers, Submarines and More
For three years the West held back the long-range missiles that could reach deep inside Russia. So Ukraine built its own — and the...
Ukraine War
A day after Putin went on Russian television to reject Ukraine's proposed halt to long-range strikes and declare he would press on until Russia...
Ukraine War
Putin conceded Russia is facing a fuel "deficit" — a quiet admission of how badly Ukraine's long-range strikes have hurt the country, with refining...
Ukraine War
Putin went on state television to concede what he'd long denied: Ukraine's long-range strikes are crippling Russia's fuel supply, with refining capacity down by...
The Treaty
After a weekend of strikes across the Persian Gulf, the U.S. and Iran just agreed to stand down and meet in Doha on Tuesday....
The Treaty
Hours after U.S. aircraft struck Iranian missile sites and coastal radar over attacks in the Strait of Hormuz, Trump issued a warning Tehran can't...
The Treaty
Shipping is "literally caught in the crossfire," one analyst says, as the U.S. and Iran battle for control of the Strait of Hormuz. After...
Dollars and Sense
The Strait of Hormuz carries far more than oil — helium for semiconductors, fertilizer, petrochemical feedstocks, a third of the world's farm goods. With...
Dollars and Sense
Tankers are moving through Hormuz again, crude has fallen below its prewar price, and the worst of the oil shock looks like it's passing....
Dollars and Sense
Iran fired on a cargo ship off Oman on Thursday — hours after warning vessels not to use a new UN-backed route through the...
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
Key Points and Summary – A mysterious unit patch tied to the Air Force’s F-47—its sixth-gen NGAD fighter—has been confirmed as a real, early...
Military Hardware: Tanks, Bombers, Submarines and More
Key Points and Summary – China is touting the J-35’s stealth as “palm-sized,” hinting it’s approaching F-35 levels of low observability. -Even if that...