Ukraine War One of the World’s Biggest Fuel Exporters Just Admitted It May Have to Start Importing Gasoline — Because Ukraine Won’t Stop Hitting Its Refineries It's an admission that would have been unthinkable a year ago: the Kremlin says Russia, one of the world's biggest exporters of refined fuel,... Jack BuckbyJune 30, 2026
Ukraine War Ukraine Just Struck the Facility That Helps Russia See the Battlefield From Space — More Than 500 Kilometers Inside Russia Ukraine's deep-strike campaign just escalated past the refineries. Overnight, Kyiv hit the Dubna space-communications center outside Moscow — Russia's largest such complex and a... Jack BuckbyJune 30, 2026
Dollars and Sense Iran Has a New Plan for the World’s Most Important Oil Route: Make Every Ship Pay to Pass — and Washington Says That’s a Red Line The fight over the Strait of Hormuz has moved off the water and into the wording of diplomatic statements. Months after Iran’s blockade of... Harry J. KazianisJune 30, 2026
Ukraine War A Russian Woman’s Husband Fell Into a Coma and the Ambulance Couldn’t Come — There Was No Fuel Due to the Ukraine War In a Siberian region six time zones from Moscow, the line for a working fuel pump stretched three kilometers. Garbage trucks have stopped running.... Harry J. KazianisJune 30, 2026
Military Hardware: Tanks, Bombers, Submarines and More China Just Showed Off the One Capability It Was Always Missing — and It Quietly Extends Its Fighters’ Reach All the Way to U.S. Bases For years, China's air force had a glaring weakness: its fighters couldn't refuel in the air, so they couldn't reach far beyond China's coast.... Steve BalestrieriJune 30, 2026
Ukraine War Ukraine Is Quietly Asking France for Something Bigger Than More Missiles: The Right to Build Them Itself and Fire Them Without Asking Anyone Ukraine is negotiating with France for a license to build the SCALP cruise missile on its own soil, a step that would hand Kyiv... Harry J. KazianisJune 30, 2026
Ukraine War Russian Soldiers Reaching Certain Parts of the Front Now Share a Grim Estimate of How Long They’ll Survive — and It’s Measured in Minutes Russian soldiers reaching the worst stretches of the front, military bloggers claim, can expect to survive 20 to 35 minutes. The figure can't be... Harry J. KazianisJune 29, 2026
Military Hardware: Tanks, Bombers, Submarines and More The U.S. Won’t Give Taiwan the F-35 — Not Because It Doubts the Island, but Because It Expects China to Invade Washington has approved billions in weapons for Taiwan — F-16s, HIMARS, anti-ship missiles. But it keeps refusing the one jet Taipei has wanted for... Jack BuckbyJune 29, 2026
Ukraine War Russians Are Now Fighting in the Streets Over Gasoline — and Putin Just Admitted the Crisis He Spent Months Denying Videos from across Russia show drivers fighting at the pumps and a woman in tears after waiting so long her battery died. This is... Jack BuckbyJune 29, 2026