Geopolitics

EU Opens Accession Talks With Ukraine and Moldova After Hungary Lifts Veto After two years of Hungarian obstruction, the European Union has finally agreed to open formal accession negotiations with Ukraine and Moldova. The deal was reached on June 12 among the ambassadors of all 27 member states. Talks will formally resume in Luxembourg on […]

Palantir loses 22 of 23 claims against Swiss magazine in landmark press freedom ruling Zurich’s Commercial Court on Friday rejected nearly all of Palantir Technologies’ legal claims against the Swiss investigative magazine Republik, dismissing 22 of 23 demands the company had made under Swiss right-of-reply law. The ruling is a decisive victory for the magazine […]

Ukraine’s one-time test of fully autonomous drones crossed a military AI threshold Two years ago, near the front line around Bakhmut in eastern Ukraine, a small swarm of 10 quadcopter drones flew toward Russian positions, severed all communication with their human operators, and activated a function their developers called “Terminator mode.” Onboard AI searched for, […]

Iran War at 100 Days: What Went Wrong Opinion, The war that could not end On February 28, 2026, the United States and Israel launched a war against Iran. One hundred and five days later, the war is still going. That alone tells you almost everything you need to know about how badly this was […]

Putin Su 57 India Stealth Fighter Offer Vladimir Putin used this month’s St. Petersburg International Economic Forum (SPIEF 2026) to renew a familiar pitch to India: buy our fifth-generation stealth fighter, build it together, and we will give you the crown jewels. The Russian president told New Delhi that Moscow is willing to cooperate without […]

ECB Raises Rates as Iran War Inflation Reaches Europe The European Central Bank raises rates for the first time since 2023, signaling that the Iran war’s economic contagion has reached the core of the Western financial system. FRANKFURT. The European Central Bank raised its benchmark deposit rate to 2.25 percent on Thursday, a 25-basis-point increase […]

Can Anyone Trust What Trump Says About Iran? On June 11, 2026, President Donald Trump simultaneously announced a peace deal with Iran was imminent, threatened to seize the country’s main oil terminal, watched three Indian seafarers die under US fire, and was told by the World Bank that this war is dragging the global economy […]

Hungary and Ukraine strike historic deal on minority rights, clearing path for EU accession talks Hungary and Ukraine have reached an agreement on the rights of the Hungarian minority in western Ukraine, Prime Minister Peter Magyar announced this week. The deal ends a decade of hostility between Budapest and Kyiv and removes the last major […]

Iran Closes Strait of Hormuz, Strikes US Bases as War Escalates Across the Gulf From the Gulf to the gas pump: how Iran’s war is reshaping the Middle East and the American economy On June 10, Iran closed the Strait of Hormuz to all shipping. On the same day, it fired missiles at US bases […]

Drone Incursions Rattle NATO’s Baltic States as Ukraine War Spills Across Borders Drone incursions into NATO airspace put Baltic states on edge as Ukraine war spills across borders A series of drone incursions into the airspace of NATO’s Baltic members has pushed Estonia, Latvia, and Lithuania to the brink of a new security reality: the […]