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Is Russia ready to invade Ukraine? In a televised statement on Monday, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy told the Ukrainian people and the world that...
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The Trump administration’s deal to allow Russian diesel into the United States blindsided Kyiv and Europe alike — halting peace talks, triggering threats to...
Sabotage at Leipzig, Swindon, and Skarżysko-Kamienna. A curfew across the river from Narva. New garrisons at Petrozavodsk, Lupche-Savino, and Pechenga pointing at Finland's 830-mile...
The Witkoff-Kushner shuttle between Moscow and Kyiv ended, predictably, without a breakthrough — and Andrew Michta argues the failure reveals something deeper than bad...
German Foreign Minister Wadephul's fourth Kyiv visit — two days before Ukraine's Independence Day — capped an accelerating shift: Berlin is becoming Ukraine's principal...
France is building a single nuclear-powered aircraft carrier, the France Libre (PANG), to replace a single aging one, Charles de Gaulle, which already disappears...
Dassault’s Rafale F5, the Super Rafale, is France’s answer to the F-35 after the Franco-German FCAS program fell apart.
Canada has taken delivery of its first two CF-35As, but the government is still reviewing whether to take the remaining 72 of the 88...
China’s carrier Liaoning and three escorts, two Type 055s and a Type 052D carrying 288 vertical launch cells between them, are circling the southern...
Four ships crossed the Strait of Hormuz Thursday against a 10-day average of 16. Iran said it hit tanker Trend on Friday. Brent is...
Jobs dropped out of Reed College and stayed on as what he called a "drop-in," sitting in on classes that interested him. One was...
"Money never made a man happy yet, nor will it. There is nothing in its nature to produce happiness. The more a man has,...
Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent has unveiled Operation Economic Outcast: secondary sanctions across five sectors and more than sixty targets, with no relief attached. Iran's...
Both sides would use a Ukraine war pause to rearm, and a longer pause may mean a bloodier spring. Michael Rubin argues Kyiv should...
For four and a half years the request was essentially a check, and the argument was that a properly supplied David could match Goliath....
Let Trump be Trump—which he will be anyway. Even if his peace efforts fail (which is entirely possible), American interests will be protected, and...
Dr. Robert Kelly argues that Donald Trump’s second term is alienating allies as no president has since 1945: refusing Saudi Arabia’s request to strike...
President Trump says he gets along with Kim Jong Un and wants a new summit before the end of 2026, along with smaller US-South...
Trump is reportedly considering another meeting with Kim Jong Un. The last round produced Singapore, Hanoi, and the DMZ, and by 2020 the status...
American doctrine promises that any North Korean nuclear attack will end the Kim regime. The Iran war has just tested that assumption. The United...
Trump ordered Ulchi Freedom Shield cut from eleven days to five before Kim Jong-un had agreed to anything in return. Kim Yo-jong dismissed the...
Is Russia ready to invade Ukraine? In a televised statement on Monday, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy told the Ukrainian people and the world that...
AOC For President? Progressive Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (AOC), the congresswoman for New York’s 14th Congressional District, is asserting more power over her party than...
Russia is poised to invade Ukraine in the coming days. This Moscow-engineered crisis presents the most defining challenge to European security since the end...
With a Russian invasion of Ukraine expected at any hour, world leaders and countries have been engaged in a last-ditch diplomatic effort to prevent...
A Russian invasion of Ukraine has appeared imminent for almost two months now. Yet it has not happened, and the window for it is...
