Summary and Key Points: As Russia’s economy buckles under sanctions and drone strikes on its oil infrastructure, the elite consensus around Vladimir Putin is...
In a phone call to US Secretary of State Marco Rubio, Russia’s Foreign Minister-for-life Sergei Lavrov warned that Russia would now be conducting an...
If war between Taiwan and China erupted, the Chinese military would unleash wave upon wave of drones across multiple domains to deplete Taiwanese defenses...
Summary and Key Points: Russia conducted its largest nuclear force exercise in years from May 19 to 21, mobilizing approximately 65,000 personnel, more than...
On paper, Vladimir Putin is a modestly compensated public servant. The Kremlin’s official disclosures list his annual salary at roughly $140,000. His declared personal...
Ukraine’s armed forces retook 116 square kilometers of Russian-occupied territory in April 2026 — the largest monthly rollback since Ukraine’s August 2024 incursion into...