Geopolitics & international affairs
Iran’s Revolutionary Guards fired at least two missiles at commercial ships in the Strait of Hormuz on Monday night, according to two US officials cited by Axios. Two vessels suffered significant damage. There were no casualties reported. The attack ends a brief lull in maritime strikes and comes as indirect US-Iran talks ended last week […]
The Pentagon’s most important weapons programs are now running an average of 12 years behind schedule, and the situation is getting worse, not better. That is the finding of the Government Accountability Office’s annual report on Major Defense Acquisition Programs, the 104 most expensive systems the Pentagon is buying, representing a planned investment of $2.4 […]
Washington DC woke up Sunday to the worst air quality of any major city on Earth, not because of a factory fire or a chemical spill, but because of a fireworks show. President Trump’s record-setting July 4 display, organized by the pro-Trump group Freedom 250 to mark America’s 250th anniversary, fired 850,000 shells over about […]
Russia hammered Kyiv with ballistic missiles on Monday, killing at least 20 people and wounding scores more, in the deadliest strike on the Ukrainian capital this year. It came on the eve of the NATO summit in Ankara, where President Trump is expected to meet Volodymyr Zelenskyy for talks on ending the war. The timing […]
A year ago, Donald Trump got NATO allies to promise they would spend 5 percent of GDP on defense. This week, at the Ankara summit, he intends to collect. The pledge At the NATO summit in The Hague in June 2025, alliance leaders committed to raising their defense spending to 5 percent of GDP by […]
Ukraine is running out of the missiles it needs to defend its cities. Russia knows it. The result is written in the body count: 18 dead in the Kyiv region in a single day. The attack On Sunday, Russia launched 68 missiles and 351 strike drones against Ukraine, concentrating the assault on the capital region. […]
Ukraine is striking deep into occupied Crimea, hitting Russian airbases, radar stations, and military infrastructure. For Vladimir Putin, the peninsula was supposed to be untouchable. For Kyiv, that is exactly the point. The target Crimea is not just another piece of occupied territory. It is the crown jewel of Putin’s project. He annexed it in […]
The numbers are beyond comprehension. Over 21,500 children dead in 1,000 days of war. More than 1,000 of them were babies under one year old. This is not collateral damage. This is not an accident. This is a war crime committed in plain sight, and the world has done nothing to stop it. 1,000 days, […]
The red card Folarin Balogun, the US national team’s star striker, stepped on the foot of Bosnia’s Tarik Muharemovic during a round-of-32 match on July 1. The referee showed a red card. Under FIFA’s disciplinary code, a red card in the World Cup carries an automatic one-game suspension. Balogun is the top American scorer in […]
Iran has a new leadership for the first time in four decades, and it looks nothing like the old one. Younger, more ruthless, and more pragmatic, this generation came of age during war and is now shaping what comes after it. A changing of the guard The death of Ayatollah Ali Khamenei in the US-Israeli […]
