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British Foreign Secretary Liz Truss slammed Russian President Vladimir Putin this week, mocking his leadership and failures in Ukraine. Truss, who urged other G7...
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For decades Beijing and Moscow treated North Korea as a shared client — “as close as lips and teeth,” in Mao’s phrase. Ted Galen...
Dr. Robert Kelly, a professor of international relations at Pusan National University, argues the separation of powers in American foreign policy has nearly collapsed,...
Dr. Robert Farley argues a renewed US-Israeli air campaign against Iran awaits only the midterm elections, citing a New York Times report of personnel...
American-flagged vessels account for less than 0.3 percent of the shipping carrying U.S. trade, and the country graduates several hundred naval architects a year...
Putin’s proposal for a U.S.-China-Russia trilateral in China — with Ukraine and Europe excluded — has revived Beltway enthusiasm for a “Kissinger-in-reverse” bid to...
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...
Sean Spoonts, a former Navy anti-submarine warfare operator, traces the Soviet Alfa-class (Project 705 Lira) from World War II submarines that sank 55 percent...
Sean Spoonts, a former Navy anti-submarine warfare operator, argues the Kilo-class ‘black hole’ submarine never earned the name: respected Charlie-class and feared Victor III...
Isaac Seitz reviews Russia’s S-400 Triumph against the F-35: the 91N6E Big Bird radar tracking 300 targets at 600 km, the 92N6E fire-control radar,...
“I don’t lose any sleep at night over the potential for failure,” James Mattis said. “I can’t even spell the word.” Harrison Kass runs...
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...
British Foreign Secretary Liz Truss slammed Russian President Vladimir Putin this week, mocking his leadership and failures in Ukraine. Truss, who urged other G7...
Is a recession in the works? Jerome Powell, the chairman of the Federal Reserve, admitted on Thursday that high inflation and global economic woes...
Does Putin Have the Leverage He Needs in Blocking Ukraine’s Ports? – By blocking Ukraine’s southern Black Sea ports, Russia may have the leverage...
Russia Reverts to Threatening West, Warns of “Catastrophic” Conflict Deputy chairman of the Russian Security Council Dmitry Medvedev appeared to threaten Western countries in...
How Can Ukraine ‘talk’ with Russia when Putin’s goal seems to be to ensure Ukraine doesn’t exist? Imagine it’s 1944 in Europe, and some Allied...
