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Iran War

Pakistan thought it won the peace. Now, it could be dragged into war.

With Trump distracted by Iran, Netanyahu is squeezing Gaza

The Houthi blockade puts Trump in a serious bind

Gunboat or showboat: Can the Navy truly sustain a long war with Iran?

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Congress quietly moves to integrate US and Israeli militaries

The West's plan to pressure Putin has a glaring flaw

Aiming at the Gulf, Iran shoots itself in the foot

What a US war with Cuba would really look like

Ukraine's 'turned tide' doesn't comport 'with basic military reality'

John Thune Senate leadership
Washington Politics

Party elites so blind they can't see GOP rank & file turning against war

Numerous polls can't all be wrong. At some point there will be a reckoning with the out-of-touch Republican establishment in Washington.

Trouble in Paris? There's a Gaullist cure for that American hubris
Europe

Trouble in Paris? There's a Gaullist cure for that American hubris

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Middle East

Trump's Lebanon fantasy is running smack into reality

Trump's favorite drug trafficker returns triumphantly to Honduras
Latin America

Trump's favorite drug trafficker returns triumphantly to Honduras

Zelensky's dangerous gambit to merge the Iran and Ukraine Wars
Europe

Zelensky's dangerous gambit to merge the Iran and Ukraine Wars

Trump oil fields
Global Crises

Trump is playing chicken with America's oil reserves

QiOSK

Staff quick takes, dispatches, and breaking news

How much is your support for Israel worth? Try $1 billion.
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How much is your support for Israel worth? Try $1 billion.

Quincy Institute researcher Nick Cleveland-Stout has the most comprehensive data yet on the extent of this foreign influence campaign

Zelensky's big idea for Trump: Ukraine is the Israel of Europe

Ex-US ambassador says Palestinian state would be 'suicide' for Israel

As war drags on, Ukraine’s population is collapsing

James Woolsey, influential neocon and Iraq War booster, dies at 84

Asia-Pacific

As Myanmar collapses, it’s time for China to step up and be the hero

As Myanmar collapses, it’s time for China to step up and be the hero

China just got one step closer to its own nuclear triad

China just got one step closer to its own nuclear triad

Goodbye Indo-Pacific, hello first island chain!

Goodbye Indo-Pacific, hello first island chain!

China Russia navy

Thinking twice about that US-China superwar

Middle east

Hezbollah south lebanaon

Trump's Lebanon fantasy is running smack into reality

Officials in Beirut know that any agreement with Israel would be dead on arrival at home

Outside the Bubble Watch the latest QI reports

How much is your support for Israel worth? Try $1 billion.play icon

How much is your support for Israel worth? Try $1 billion.

Washington Politics

John Thune Senate leadership

Party elites so blind they can't see GOP rank & file turning against war

South Carolina Senators Fritz Hollings and Lindsey Graham,

Before Lindsey there was Fritz, an anti-Iraq war, Israel skeptic

China hawks are losing the public opinion battle

China hawks are losing the public opinion battle

Israel targets X users, right-wing media with $2 million ad push

Israel targets X users, right-wing media with $2 million ad push

Africa

Sudan

Will naming, shaming & sanctioning terror in Sudan stop bloodshed?

The new US push for peace in Libya is — surprise — about the oil

Violence in Mali risks destabilizing the Sahel

US knows UAE fueling war in Sudan but $1.4 trillion is getting in the way

Latin America

Trump's favorite drug trafficker returns triumphantly to Honduras

Trump's favorite drug trafficker returns triumphantly to Honduras

What a US war with Cuba would really look like

'ISIS of the Western Hemisphere'? Latin America isn't buying it

Can Cuba outlast Marco Rubio?

Europe

Trouble in Paris? There's a Gaullist cure for that American hubris

Trouble in Paris? There's a Gaullist cure for that American hubris

Ukraine's 'turned tide' doesn't comport 'with basic military reality'

Zelensky's dangerous gambit to merge the Iran and Ukraine Wars

Zelensky's 'Freya' missile defense scheme could backfire. Here's why.

north america

China and Russia and the US icebreaker race

China and Russia and the US icebreaker race

Is Trump finally burying the zombie US-Mexico-Canada trade pact?

Throwing thousands more soldiers at Haiti will not solve this crisis

CIA deaths in Mexico: Is Trump playing with fire?

Military Industrial Complex

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Trump acquired at least $10 million in defense stocks last year

The president's portfolio kept accumulating shares in companies — like Palantir and Lockheed Martin — that were benefiting directly from his global military escalations

Media

How much is your support for Israel worth? Try $1 billion.

How much is your support for Israel worth? Try $1 billion.

Ukraine landmines

Ukraine's 'turned tide' doesn't comport 'with basic military reality'

World War I propaganda poster

When Democrats were smearing socialists over war

WaPo op-ed backs Section 224, omits author's direct Israeli stake

WaPo op-ed backs Section 224, omits author's direct Israeli stake

Global Crises

Trump oil fields

Trump is playing chicken with America's oil reserves

The US risks depleting its emergency petroleum supplies even as it escalates with Iran