Geopolitics & international affairs
At 10:30 on Friday morning, a maritime drone carrying explosives drifted into the Romanian port of Constanta on the Black Sea and self-detonated near an oil terminal. More than a thousand people were evacuated. No one was killed. But the blast, which damaged a ship and several warehouses, was […]
France opens war crimes investigation into Israel’s treatment of Gaza flotilla activists — a probe that could test the limits of universal jurisdiction and reshape European legal pressure on Israel. On a spring evening in late May, a young French activist sat in a dark shipping container somewhere in […]
Trump’s Iran envoys quietly assembled 100 nuclear scientists at Oak Ridge, a signal that Washington is preparing technical blueprints for a deal it still cannot guarantee will happen. There is a place in eastern Tennessee where the United States has secretly handled other nations’ nuclear materials for decades. Oak […]
There is a place in eastern Tennessee where the United States has secretly handled other nations’ nuclear materials for decades. Oak Ridge, home to the Y-12 National Security Complex and the Oak Ridge National Laboratory, is where uranium from dismantled Soviet warheads was processed in the 1990s, where Libya’s […]
— slug: xi-visits-north-korea-kim-jong-un-2026 date: 2026-06-05 category: geopolitics tags: [china, north-korea, xi-jinping, kim-jong-un, nuclear, diplomacy, asia-pacific] author: 1 — Xi Jinping will travel to Pyongyang for the first time in seven years, as Beijing works to keep its only treaty ally from drifting further into Moscow’s orbit amid the Iran […]
— slug: uk-intel-russia-nato-attack-2030-starmer-2026 date: 2026-06-05 category: geopolitics tags: [uk, nato, russia, starmer, defense, europe, intelligence] author: 1 — Prime Minister Keir Starmer says UK intelligence assesses that Russia could strike a NATO member “as soon as 2030,” as the British military chief warns the country faces its “most dangerous […]
1|— 2|slug: senate-gop-rebellion-pulte-dni-2026 3|date: 2026-06-05 4|category: geopolitics 5|tags: [us, trump, pulte, intelligence, senate, congress, surveillance] 6|author: 1 7|— 8| 9|Deck: Republican senators openly revolt against Trump’s appointment of Bill Pulte as acting director of national intelligence, warning he has “no prayer” of confirmation and calling him an “incendiary attack […]
1|— 2|slug: zelenskyy-putin-face-to-face-talks-2026 3|date: 2026-06-05 4|category: geopolitics 5|tags: [ukraine, russia, zelenskyy, putin, diplomacy, trump] 6|author: 1 7|— 8| 9|Deck: Zelenskyy publishes an open letter directly to Putin proposing face-to-face talks, a rare diplomatic move as Ukraine tries to seize a pivotal moment while US attention is fixed on Iran. […]
Grab What You Can: The New Reality in the South China Sea With US attention fixed on Iran, China is grabbing territory and filling the vacuum. The rules-based order is not holding. The BBC recently ran a documentary with a title that says everything: “Grab what you can […]
