Geopolitics & international affairs
Europe is building its own ballistic missile interceptor, and the country doing the core design work is the one being bombed. The project, called Freyja, was launched in Paris last month with the backing of ten governments and twelve defense companies, and this week its Ukrainian lead, the drone and missile maker Fire Point, announced […]
Jordan is the most cautious state in the Middle East: it has a peace treaty with Israel, security coordination with it, and a dependence on it for water. When it says a red line is about to be crossed, it is not posturing. On Wednesday it convenes the foreign ministers of the Arab and Islamic […]
On the morning of February 28, a missile struck an oil storage facility 200 meters from the ship Mohammad Shafiqul Islam commanded. The facility burst into flames, and the captain and his crew watched the tugboats battle the blaze. That was the moment the war arrived for the 31 men aboard the Banglar Joyjatra. It […]
The president who started the war that pushed gasoline past four dollars a gallon is now telling the oil companies they are making too much money. Over the weekend, Donald Trump turned on ExxonMobil and Chevron, saying they were profiting excessively from the conflict and should give some of that money back to the public. […]
On paper, the war in Gaza is ending. On the ground, it is not. Israeli airstrikes killed at least eighteen people in Gaza over the weekend, and the man who would know said plainly that there is no deal in place to stop the attacks. That gap, between the announcement and the ground, is the […]
The road into Sudan is full again. Hundreds of Ethiopians from the northern region of Tigray crossed the border over the weekend, fleeing fighting that broke out Saturday near the village of Shererina, in western Tigray, a few kilometers (a few miles) from the Sudanese frontier. The wounded came too, carried to a health center […]
The number to hold onto is eight. That is how many ships got through the Strait of Hormuz on Sunday, in a waterway that normally carries more than a hundred vessels a day and about a fifth of the world’s oil and gas. On Saturday the count was eleven. The strait has not been this […]
The story that went around the world about Ceuta was not the story that happened. Two camps with nothing else in common ended up telling the same kind of tale: that the migration was planned, paid for, orchestrated. One camp called the planners globalists. The other named Israel outright. Both were wrong, both were antisemitic […]
Nissan is back in the black. The company reported Monday a net profit of 3.8 billion yen (about $24 million) for the quarter that ended in June, its first quarterly profit in two years. A year earlier it lost 115.8 billion yen. The turnaround is genuine but small: $24 million is roughly what this company […]
The drones that slowed the Russian army in Ukraine have a new customer in mind: the Philippines. Manila is exploring what it can learn from Kyiv’s four years of cheap, adaptable drone warfare, and the two governments have begun work on a possible partnership. The attraction is obvious. The hard part is that the war […]
