Dollars and Sense The Oil Crisis Is Finally Easing — but America Drained Its Emergency Reserve to the Lowest Level in 40 Years to Get There 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.... Harry J. KazianisJune 29, 2026
Ukraine War More Than Half of Russia Is Now Rationing Fuel — and the Hardest-Hit Regions Are the Very Ones That Pump the Country’s Oil Russia is one of the planet's biggest oil producers. So why are drivers in Siberia and on the Pacific coast — thousands of miles... Harry J. KazianisJune 29, 2026
Ukraine War Putin Just Revealed Ukraine Offered to Stop Burning Russia’s Refineries — and Admitted He Turned the Offer Down For nearly four years Putin insisted the drone strikes changed nothing. On Sunday he conceded the opposite: gas-station lines, a fuel deficit, a "difficult... Harry J. KazianisJune 29, 2026
The Treaty The U.S. and Iran Just Agreed to Stop Shooting and Talk — but Almost Everything About the Deal Says It Won’t Hold 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.... Jack BuckbyJune 28, 2026
The Treaty Trump Just Struck Iran Again — and Warned That If Tehran Doesn’t Learn, the Islamic Republic Will “No Longer Exist” 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... Jack BuckbyJune 28, 2026
The Treaty ‘Shipping Is Literally Caught in the Crossfire’ as the U.S. and Iran Battle for Control of the Strait of Hormuz 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... Jack BuckbyJune 27, 2026
Military Hardware: Tanks, Bombers, Submarines and More Iran Attacked a Ship in the Strait of Hormuz. The U.S. Just Hit Back — and the Week-Old Ceasefire Is Cracking After an Iranian drone hit a cargo ship in the Strait of Hormuz, the U.S. struck Iranian missile and drone storage sites and coastal... Harry J. KazianisJune 27, 2026
Military Hardware: Tanks, Bombers, Submarines and More The U.S. and Iran Spent Three Days Shooting at Each Other Around the Strait of Hormuz. Here’s Why It Probably Won’t Become a War The U.S. and Iran spent three days shooting at each other around the Strait of Hormuz — Iran hit a ship, the U.S. struck... Harry J. KazianisJune 27, 2026
Military Hardware: Tanks, Bombers, Submarines and More Iran’s Strikes Did More Than $400 Million in Damage to the U.S. Fifth Fleet’s Headquarters — Damage the Pentagon Hadn’t Acknowledged Iran's missiles and drones did more than $400 million in damage to the U.S. Fifth Fleet's headquarters in Bahrain — including damage the Pentagon... Steve BalestrieriJune 26, 2026