Geopolitics & international affairs
Russia says it has captured the eastern Ukrainian city of Kostiantynivka after an eight-month siege. Ukraine says the city is still under its control. The dispute over a ruined town of 67,000 has become the focal point of a wider argument about whether peace is possible. A contested claim On Friday, Russian commanders informed Vladimir […]
Iran is using the state funeral of Ayatollah Ali Khamenei as a stage to assert permanent control over the Strait of Hormuz. Ships are being turned away. The IRGC is broadcasting threats. And the country’s new leadership is making clear that the waterway will never return to the way it was before the war. Funeral […]
A 90-minute call on the Fourth of July President Donald Trump held a 90-minute telephone conversation with Vladimir Putin on July 4, offering direct American help to negotiate an end to the war in Ukraine, according to Kremlin aide Yuri Ushakov. The call took place on US Independence Day, a date Trump’s team chose deliberately […]
Russia says it has captured the eastern Ukrainian city of Kostiantynivka after an eight-month siege. Ukraine says the city is still under its control. The dispute over a ruined town of 67,000 has become the focal point of a wider argument about whether peace is possible. A contested claim On Friday, Russian commanders informed Vladimir […]
Iran is using the state funeral of Ayatollah Ali Khamenei as a stage to assert permanent control over the Strait of Hormuz. Ships are being turned away. The IRGC is broadcasting threats. And the country’s new leadership is making clear that the waterway will never return to the way it was before the war. Funeral […]
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 […]
A 90-minute call on the Fourth of July President Donald Trump held a 90-minute telephone conversation with Vladimir Putin on July 4, offering direct American help to negotiate an end to the war in Ukraine, according to Kremlin aide Yuri Ushakov. The call took place on US Independence Day, a date Trump’s team chose deliberately […]
On US Independence Day, Trump placed two phone calls that may define the next phase of Europe’s largest war since 1945. WASHINGTON. On the Fourth of July, while Americans celebrated the nation’s 250th birthday, President Donald Trump spent 90 minutes on the phone with Vladimir Putin. By the time the call ended, Trump had offered […]
This article is based on an interview with Anthony Scaramucci, former White House Communications Director under President Donald Trump, conducted by Anders Nielsen on the Logic of War channel. The question came at the very end of a 44-minute conversation. Anders Nielsen, a European security analyst who runs the Logic of War channel, had walked […]
BEIJING. Iran’s ambassador to China announced Saturday that Beijing and other “friendly” nations will receive special considerations under a new fee regime for the Strait of Hormuz, signaling that Tehran intends to turn its wartime control of the world’s most critical energy chokepoint into a permanent strategic and financial asset. Speaking at the World Peace […]
