Geopolitics & international affairs
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 […]
WASHINGTON. Axios titled its postmortem “Trump’s God, guns and anticommunist Fourth of July,” and the phrase is more precise than most headlines allow. It names a deliberate rhetorical architecture. The National Mall address on July 4 was not merely a speech; it was the unveiling of a cultural messaging package designed for a specific political […]
A nationalist address that broke with the unifying traditions of past Independence Day celebrations and tied the midterm elections to the fight against an ideological enemy. KEYSTONE, South Dakota. On the eve of America’s 250th birthday, President Donald Trump delivered a speech at Mount Rushmore that framed communism as the gravest existential threat the nation […]
Trump’s declaration that Netanyahu knows his place comes after months of open tension. The Israeli prime minister is desperate for the photo op. JERUSALEM. Benjamin Netanyahu called Donald Trump on Friday to congratulate him on America’s 250th Independence Day. The Israeli prime minister told the US president that the United States is “a guarantor of […]
The same Ukrainian drone campaign that is disabling Russia’s refineries and creating fuel queues from Moscow to Crimea is also rewriting Washington’s assumptions about who is winning the war. The two developments are not separate. They are cause and effect. July 5, 2026. The war in Ukraine has entered a new phase, and the shift […]
Beijing. Chairman Xi Jinping promoted two lieutenant generals to full general on July 3, filling posts left vacant by the most sweeping anti-corruption purge to fracture the People’s Liberation Army in half a century. Zhang Shuguang, secretary of the Central Military Commission’s Discipline Inspection Commission, and Wang Gang, commander of the PLA Air Force, received […]
This is a follow-up to this morning’s article on Iran’s funeral plans for Khamenei (iran-khamenei-funeral-plans-july-2026). What follows is the next chapter in that story. The funeral for Iran’s late Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei began in earnest on Saturday, with millions of mourners pouring into the streets of Tehran on the first day of a six-day […]
Ukraine has carried out drone strikes against oil and military facilities near St Petersburg, Russia’s second-largest city, expanding the reach of its long-range campaign deeper into Russian territory than ever before. The attack disrupted internet service and flights in the area, according to local officials, as Kyiv continues to demonstrate that no part of Russia […]
This is a follow-up to this morning’s article on Iran’s funeral plans for Khamenei (iran-khamenei-funeral-plans-july-2026). What follows is the next chapter in that story. The funeral for Iran’s late Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei began in earnest on Saturday, with millions of mourners pouring into the streets of Tehran on the first day of a six-day […]
