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Russia’s wartime arsenal now appears to include sabotage of underwater pipelines. On Monday, authorities in Europe noticed a sudden drop in pressure in the Nord Stream...
What happens now in Ukraine? President Vladimir Putin’s decision to announce a partial mobilization of Russian manpower in service of winning the war against...
The HBO series Game of Thrones, based on a series of novels by George R.R. Martin, captivated viewers with a tale of how politics...
This week Russia will conduct referendums on the accession to Russia of several of its conquered territories in Ukraine. As many have pointed out,...
Will a ‘Peak’ China decide now is the time for war with America: Hal Brands and Michael Beckley have breaking news from 1832! Namely...
Putin: King Pyrrhus of Moscow?: Over at Geopolitical Monitor, Julian McBride wonders whether Vladimir Putin has come to a “Pyrrhus of Epirus moment.” Maybe...
Yesterday the crack Institute for the Study of War (ISW) team had glad tidings in their daily roundup of the latest developments out of...
You take your wisdom where you find it. In 2020, on impulse, I incorporated the “weird fiction” of H. P. Lovecraft, the grandmaster of...
U.S. Confirms Ukraine Can Continue Using Western Weapons After Russian Referendums and Nuclear Threats: As the referendums in Russian-occupied Donetsk, Luhansk, Zaporizhzhia, and Kherson...
A video of a Russian soldier exposing the Kremlin’s dangerous and rushed deployment of inexperienced troops went viral this week. In the video, the...
Is Putin Losing the War in Ukraine? The Russian military continues to struggle in Ukraine on day 217 of the war. Russian forces are...
As the war continues to go increasingly bad for Russia in Ukraine, the threat of Putin taking drastic measures to change the situation remains...
Guns in America: Are Sales Finally Slowing? It isn’t just the weather in parts of the country that is cooling with the arrival of fall,...
A video clip shared over the weekend by Just Planes offers an insight into the complex process of landing large commercial passenger jets. The...
Fact Check: Joe Biden Is Wrong, Gas Not Below Three Dollars Per Gallon President Joe Biden claimed on Monday, during the third meeting of...
Since earlier this month, it hasn’t been game time for Dish Network subscribers. Sony Pictures Entertainment’s Game Show Network has been removed from the...
It has now been almost three years since the Norwegian Nobel Committee announced Abiy Ahmed as the recipient of the 2019 Nobel Peace Prize...
Medvedev Reaffirms “Existential Threat” Justification for Nuclear War over Ukraine: The idea of the “existential threat” that Russia would consider a justification for the...
Protests in Iran have intensified over the last week. The demonstrations began after the death of 22-year-old Mahsa Amini, who perished while she was...
As popular protests in Iran continue into a second week, a pre-revolutionary atmosphere has taken hold of the country. It is very similar to...
A new virus has emerged in China and infected around 35 people, sparking concern that a new pandemic could be on the way. Scientists...
President Joe Biden has tested positive for COVID-19. He is currently experiencing mild symptoms, the White House said. “This morning, President Biden tested positive...
As COVID Cases Rise, Studies Suggest Omicron Is More Deadly Than Originally Though – COVID-19 cases in the United States steadily increased in April,...
Midterms Likely Play a Part in Sudden COVID Restriction Pullback: Seemingly out of nowhere, COVID-19 regulations across the United States are being relaxed and...
Voting has concluded in four Russian-occupied regions of Ukraine, where what’s left of the local population were asked in illegal and unofficial referendums whether...
Italy has elected its most far-right government since the two decades of Benito Mussolini’s leadership. Giorgia Meloni, a 45-year-old former journalist and member of...
Russian President Vladimir Putin has enjoyed over two decades of uncontested power. Now, however, with Russia’s “special military operation” in Ukraine badly stalled, Putin’s...
CNN is alleging that a string of texts they received indicate that then Trump White House Chief of Staff Mark Meadows was involved in...
North Korea has done it again, which is no surprise. While the ROK/U.S. alliance and the international community has been waiting for a seventh...
Washington Must Learn to Bargain with a Nuclear North Korea: Kim Jong-Un’s statement in early September that North Korea will never give up its...
North Korea Slams U. S. Over Weapons Transfer to Russia Claims – In a report from state media on Thursday, a North Korean defense...
We spoke to a top former U.S. government official who has direct experience in dealing with Pyongyang at the highest levels from the White...
Reports revealed this week how a 25-year-old Russian male walked into a military enlistment office and shot a Russian military officer at close range....
The White House officially responded to Russian President Vladimir Putin’s threats of nuclear war, which were issued last Wednesday in a national address to...
Sweden has some truly amazing submarines: Last week, we at 19ForthyFive published an article assessing the Finnish Navy, which pointed out, among other things, that...
Last December, USS Gerald R. Ford (CVN-78), the largest and most expensive warship ever built, quietly reached its initial operating capability, before beginning her...
The U.S. Congress is set to vote on another package of aid to Ukraine. The aid, which is bundled into a stopgap funding bill...
