Geopolitics & international affairs
KYIV. Ukraine has turned its naval drones into mother ships. The Black Sea robo-boats that terrorized Russia’s fleet are now launching squadrons of FPV attack drones and thermobaric rockets from open water, expanding the strike envelope of an already revolutionary weapons program. The Sea Baby, developed by Ukraine’s Security Service (SBU), now carries six to […]
The ceasefire agreement between Lebanon and Israel was sold as a diplomatic breakthrough. Read closely, and it looks more like a carefully laid trap. The framework deal announced by US Secretary of State Marco Rubio on June 26, 2026, was the product of months of American mediation, multiple extensions of an earlier truce, and the […]
Beijing’s propaganda machine sells the invasion of Taiwan as inevitable. The military math says otherwise. In a detailed analysis published Wednesday by War on the Rocks, Jay McVann, a U.S. Navy officer and former TOPGUN instructor, makes a cold argument: a Chinese amphibious assault on Taiwan would require China to accomplish three distinct military operations […]
Maybe in the end, Trump has been the best thing that could happen to Europe, forcing it to evolve faster than it is comfortable to, and start asking itself: how do I protect my interests even from my friends. This is not a question Europe has ever wanted to answer. For decades, the Atlantic alliance […]
Beijing’s propaganda machine sells the invasion of Taiwan as inevitable. The military math says otherwise. In a detailed analysis published Wednesday by War on the Rocks, Jay McVann, a U.S. Navy officer and former TOPGUN instructor, makes a cold argument: a Chinese amphibious assault on Taiwan would require China to accomplish three distinct military operations […]
This is a follow-up to today’s article on the Supreme Court birthright citizenship ruling (supreme-court-birthright-citizenship). What follows is the next chapter in that story. The Constitution held. The Supreme Court spoke at 10:02 a.m. on June 30, and within two hours the White House had its answer ready: we are not done. A senior administration […]
Beijing’s thought police arrive in Taiwan today. Starting July 1, the Chinese Communist Party’s new Ethnic Unity and Progress Promotion Law makes Taiwanese identity a crime. The law, passed by the National People’s Congress in March 2026, took effect this morning. Article 21 mandates that the CCP “strengthen the sense of belonging, identification, and honor […]
Beijing is building a national AI computing grid at a cost of $295 billion, and it is designed to keep American technology out. The plan, led by the National Development and Reform Commission, calls for roughly 2 trillion yuan ($295 billion) over five years to build a nationwide network of interconnected AI data centers. Bloomberg […]
Sri Lanka’s investigation into the 2019 Easter Sunday bombings has finally turned to the country’s intelligence architecture. The arrest of a former spy chief forces a reckoning the island has avoided for seven years. The coordinated suicide bombings on April 21, 2019 killed 279 people across three churches and three luxury hotels. For years, the […]
A party holding a national convention in a non-presidential election year is unprecedented in modern American politics. That is precisely what Donald Trump announced on June 30, and the move reveals more about Republican nervousness than it does about confidence. The convention will take place September 9-10 in Dallas, Texas, roughly six weeks before the […]
