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Military Industrial Complex

US leaves Iraq: 'Shock and awe' curdles into 'Aw, shucks'

The U.S. ends its military campaign in Baghdad after 23 years of fighting. The campaign cost 4,418 US troops their lives and will end up costing nearly $3 trillion through 2050.

Ukraine war winter
Europe

2027: The Ukraine winter we prayed wouldn't come

Relentless Russian attacks and energy crisis, matched with depleting resources from abroad, demand that Trump make dramatic changes in approach to war now

Anduril co-founder Palmer Luckey
Military Industrial Complex

Palmer Luckey building submarines is not the craziest idea

A $7 billion deal is raising eyebrows, as is the Anduril CEO's relationship with Trump. But after so many shipbuilding failures, the DOD could do worse

Iranian Parliament Speaker Mohammad Bagher Ghalibaf at a sessino of parliament in early 2026
Middle East

Is Iran poised to withdraw from the Non-Proliferation Treaty?

Opposition to the agreement now goes beyond the country's most hardline elements

Milorad Dodik
Europe

Bosnia's Trump-aligned kingmaker wins big despite electoral ban

Election results further expose the limits of BiH’s political system, which dates back to the 1995 Dayton Accords.

Will Americans ever escape this 'imperialist realism'?
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Will Americans ever escape this 'imperialist realism'?

WATCH: Author Daniel Bessner describes how US empire isn't just a pathology of Washington leadership, it's deeply engrained in our culture, too