Geopolitics & international affairs
Moscow’s New Friends: Why Russia Is Courting the Taliban Russia is hosting Taliban defense officials in Moscow, signing military cooperation deals, and building a relationship that deliberately undermines the Western policy of isolating the regime. The hall at the Patriot Congress and Exhibition Center outside Moscow was filled […]
Trump’s AI Order Tries to Have It Both Ways on China Trump signed the toughest AI export restrictions on China yet, but also let Nvidia keep selling. The order is a compromise that pleases no one completely. The scene inside the White House in the days before the […]
Republicans quietly drop $1bn for Trump’s ballroom — and the midterms explain why The White House ballroom became a symbol of everything voters hate about the war and its costs, and Senate Republicans noticed just in time to save themselves from voting for it. The ballroom was never […]
When the War Comes Home: Japan Runs Out of Plastic The Strait of Hormuz blockade is no longer an abstraction for Japan. It is an empty baguette bag in Tokyo, a bare produce section in Kawasaki, and a hard question for every convenience store clerk who can no […]
The Seat That Wasn’t: Germany’s Diplomatic Calculus Collapses in New York On June 3, 2026, the Federal Republic of Germany went to the United Nations General Assembly expecting to reclaim a non-permanent seat on the Security Council. It left with 104 votes — twenty-three short of what it needed, […]
The Unspoken Arsenal: Rubio Breaks the Taboo, and the Region Pays the Price A US secretary of state has done what no predecessor would: publicly acknowledged what everyone already knew. But admitting Israel has nuclear weapons is not the same as dealing with the consequences of keeping that fact […]
The War Comes to Kuwait An Iranian drone hit a passenger terminal at Kuwait’s international airport on Wednesday, killing one person and wounding dozens. The peace talks are not happening. Just after midnight on Wednesday, an Iranian drone carrying a warhead struck the T1 terminal at Kuwait International Airport. […]
The Housing Man Who Now Reads Your Secrets On Tuesday, Donald Trump appointed the country’s housing regulator — a man with zero national security experience — as acting director of the entire US intelligence community. Even Republicans are worried. There is a special kind of absurdity that emerges when […]
