Geopolitics & international affairs
President Donald Trump sat down with Axios White House correspondent Marc Caputo for a 45-minute interview on “The Axios Show” on June 18, recorded in the Roosevelt Room of the White House. Over the course of the conversation, Trump spoke for 87 percent of the time, delivering 7,172 words to Caputo’s 1,215, according to a […]
The Pentagon has told lawmakers it needs approximately $80 billion to cover costs from the ongoing war with Iran as well as other non-war-related defense expenses, signaling fresh urgency as military services warn they could run out of operational funds by summer’s end. Deputy Defense Secretary Stephen Feinberg delivered the request directly to lawmakers in […]
There is a kind of arithmetic that Western leaders use to measure loyalty, and it goes like this: every weapon sent to Ukraine is a vote for the right side of history. Numbers are tallied. Pledges are compared. Nations that fall short are named in press briefings and made to feel the cold edge of […]
Macron’s nuclear gamble: Building a European deterrent before French politics tears it down In early March, President Emmanuel Macron stood at a windswept submarine base on the Breton coast and quietly buried four decades of French nuclear orthodoxy. The arsenal would grow. The numbers would be hidden. And for the first time, nuclear weapons built […]
This is a follow-up to this morning’s article on the Vance warning and Tehran’s threat over Lebanon (vance-iran-deal-israel-warning-tehran-lebanon). What follows is the next chapter in that story. US-Iran talks postponed as Vance cancels trip and Israeli strikes on Lebanon escalate The first peace talks between the United States and Iran were postponed Friday, as Vice […]
‘If Ukraine Burns, Your Moscow Will Burn’: Zelenskyy’s Warning After Largest Drone Attack on Russian Capital The billowing clouds of black smoke that rose over the Moscow Oil Refinery on Thursday morning were not just the byproduct of burning fuel. They were a signal. For the first time in more than four years of war, […]
The image that defined Donald Trump’s first-term North Korea policy was a handshake across the demilitarized zone. The summit in Singapore, the letters exchanged with Kim Jong-un, the theatrical walk into the South, it was all choreography, heavy on gesture and light on substance. The substance, when it finally arrived, was nothing. Hanoi collapsed. Stockholm […]
Somalia warns Israel against meddling in Somaliland after embassy opens in Jerusalem Somalia’s government has issued a formal warning to Israel against interference in the affairs of Somaliland, the breakaway region that opened its first overseas embassy in Jerusalem this week, calling the move a violation of the Horn of Africa’s sovereignty. The move represents […]
EU refuses to lift key Iran sanctions until a formal nuclear deal is signed The European Union will not lift its most significant sanctions on Iran until a formal nuclear agreement is reached, the bloc’s foreign policy chief said Friday — a clear signal that Europe does not consider the interim memorandum of understanding signed […]
Senate threatens to ground Hegseth’s travel over Iran school bombing and boat strike investigations The Senate Armed Services Committee is using the Pentagon’s own budget to force answers on two episodes the Trump administration would rather forget: the cruise missile strike that killed 165 schoolgirls in Iran and the drug-war shootings at sea that left […]
