Geopolitics

Taiwan to Build Chip and EV Factories in Poland, Replacing China and the US Polish Prime Minister Donald Tusk announced that Taiwanese giant Foxconn will build a semiconductor factory and an electric vehicle plant in Poland, filling a strategic void left by failed projects with both China and the United States. WARSAW. In a sweeping […]

June 27, 2026 – The United States military carried out airstrikes against Iranian missile and drone storage facilities and coastal radar sites on Friday, retaliating for what President Donald Trump called a “foolish violation” of the US-Iran ceasefire after an Iranian drone struck a commercial cargo vessel in the Strait of Hormuz. The exchange of […]

China’s AI Price Revolution Undercuts Washington’s Alliance Pitch Washington is racing to sell the world on American-made AI, but China’s cheap and capable models are getting harder to ignore, and the math is breaking the US narrative. The State Department has expanded its Pax Silica initiative, a US-led bloc designed to build a secure AI […]

On June 26, Russia’s Defense Ministry announced it had shot down 660 Ukrainian drones across 12 regions and occupied Crimea in what appeared to be one of the largest Ukrainian aerial operations of the war. Amid the spectacle of flaming debris and Moscow’s claims of total interception, Russian officials added something else: a categorical denial […]

Is the Korean Peninsula the next hot war? Kim tests weapons as Seoul arms half a million for drone warfare Two announcements on the same day, from two capitals 193 kilometers (120 miles) apart, paint a picture of a peninsula preparing for a war it hopes never comes but no longer pretends to avoid. On […]

A former high-ranking Ukrainian intelligence officer was sentenced to life in prison on June 25 after being convicted of high treason for passing state secrets to Russia’s Federal Security Service (FSB), prosecutors announced. Colonel Dmytro Kozyura, the former chief of staff of the Security Service of Ukraine’s (SBU) Anti-Terrorist Center, was found guilty by the […]

Source: The Diplomat, June 26, 2026 The U.S. military spent two decades building an arsenal optimized for hunting insurgents in the mountains of Afghanistan and the alleyways of Iraq. As Washington pivots to great-power competition with China, much of that equipment seemed destined for the boneyard. But a growing body of analysis suggests that many […]

Ukraine’s newest weapon drops from a balloon at 12 kilometers altitude, cuts its own guidance to defeat Russian jammers, and drifts silently into Russia on prevailing westerly winds. It is called DART. And it may change how Kyiv conducts long-range strikes. Ukraine has unveiled a striking new addition to its deep-strike arsenal: the DART missile, […]

A 6-3 ruling handed the White House a sweeping victory on immigration, allowing border agents to turn away asylum seekers before they set foot on U.S. soil. WASHINGTON. The Supreme Court ruled on June 25 in Noem v. Al Otro Lado that the Trump administration may lawfully block migrants from entering the United States to […]

The French navy boarded and seized a Russian oil tanker near Sicily on June 23, marking the fifth interception of a vessel linked to Moscow’s so-called shadow fleet since September 2025. President Emmanuel Macron announced the operation on June 25, declaring that Europe will not allow the clandestine shipping network to keep funding Russia’s war […]