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The Iran Ceasefire Isn’t Dead. That’s Exactly the Problem: The ceasefire is holding, and Iran is the reason. Not because Tehran has any interest...
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The Iran Ceasefire Isn’t Dead. That’s Exactly the Problem: The ceasefire is holding, and Iran is the reason. Not because Tehran has any interest...
The conventional wisdom in Washington is that the Iran ceasefire now frees up American diplomatic energy to refocus on the war in Ukraine—but that...
Grant the optimistic scenario: The Iran ceasefire holds. Diplomats produce something they can call a framework. The immediate military pressure eases, and Washington declares...
The debate over what China’s military is actually for keeps producing the wrong answer because it keeps asking the wrong question. Global power projection...
China’s Real Strait of Hormuz Play Has Nothing to Do with the PLAN: China demonstrated two years ago precisely how it would react to...
The satellite imagery doesn’t lie. China’s Chengdu facility is running five production lines. The J-20 fleet has crossed 300 aircraft. Annual output runs between...
Iran is asking America to pay for something it already owns. Strip away the diplomatic packaging, and that is the mechanism of the proposed...
Washington has spent the better part of a decade arguing about the Ford class‘s electromagnetic catapults. Beijing spent roughly the same period building a...
Russia pocketed several billion dollars in the first two weeks after the Strait of Hormuz closed. That figure is worth sitting with — real...
The Iran debate in Washington is about which options Trump has left. That’s the wrong debate. The problem isn’t the menu — it’s that...