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Can Pakistan mediate war while opening trade routes to Tehran?

Why Gulf data centers became deliberate targets in Iran War

If Trump wants out of war he needs to stand up to Israel on Lebanon

'Christmas bombings' worked in Vietnam but won't drag Iran to table

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Ukraine's conscription crisis is getting increasingly bloody

China's position on the Hormuz Strait: What 'open' really means

As Rubio turns into punisher, Cubans wary of final blow

Trump's cuts are pushing the UN out of Geneva. That may be a win.

Iran war marks the end of American primacy as we know it

Rubio Trump Hegseth
Middle East

Trump appears poised to restart the Iran war

Tehran believes fresh attacks will come over next two days. Feeling emboldened, leaders there are ready with new targets for retaliation.

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Military Industrial Complex

Can we please talk about WHY we are in a missile shortage?

How the failure of Trump's Caucasus corridor helped spare Armenia
Europe

How the failure of Trump's Caucasus corridor helped spare Armenia

China's position on the Hormuz Strait: What 'open' really means
Asia-Pacific

China's position on the Hormuz Strait: What 'open' really means

QiOSK

Staff quick takes, dispatches, and breaking news

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QiOSK

On China, Trump wants to be Mr. Nice Guy now

The American president has shifted radically from his first administration but is it conditional, and can a 'G2' style relationship actually work?

Trump leaves China with little of substance after summit

Ex-CENTCOM chief headlines lavish Israeli-American Council gala

Picking up on the vibes in Beijing before major Trump-Xi visit

CBO: Golden Dome to cost $1.2 trillion

Asia-Pacific

China's position on the Hormuz Strait: What 'open' really means

China's position on the Hormuz Strait: What 'open' really means

Taiwan is looming over this week's Trump and Xi summit

Taiwan is looming over this week's Trump and Xi summit

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War has significantly altered major Trump meeting with Xi

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Japan's new long-range missiles put US-China on collision course

Middle east

Rubio Trump Hegseth

Trump appears poised to restart the Iran war

Tehran believes fresh attacks will come over next two days. Feeling emboldened, leaders there are ready with new targets for retaliation.

Outside the Bubble Watch the latest QI reports

Lawmakers owning defense stocks: How corrupt is that?play icon

Lawmakers owning defense stocks: How corrupt is that?

Washington Politics

Democrats playing catch up with their voters on Israel

Democrats playing catch up with their voters on Israel

Are Democrats falling into a hawkish trap on China?

Are Democrats falling into a hawkish trap on China?

Trump sons

Five shameless moments of Iran war opportunism & grifting

Africa

What will the West do if Mali falls to jihadists?

What will the West do if Mali falls to jihadists?

Sniffing out Red Sea access, US in line to be Eritrea's latest suitor

How Trump's diplomacy is shaping the war in the eastern Congo

Spurned by Sahel, France courts Kenya, a place it didn't colonize

Latin America

Marco Rubio Cuba

As Rubio turns into punisher, Cubans wary of final blow

US: Open shipping for me but not for thee (looking at you China)

In Cuba a deadlock is more likely than a deal

Despite Trump's threats, a US-Cuba deal is taking shape

Europe

How the failure of Trump's Caucasus corridor helped spare Armenia

How the failure of Trump's Caucasus corridor helped spare Armenia

Ukraine's conscription crisis is getting increasingly bloody

Poll: Ukrainians more threatened by corruption than by Russia

Trump's troop withdrawals from Germany might backfire. Here's why.

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Haiti gang violence

Throwing thousands more soldiers at Haiti will not solve this crisis

CIA deaths in Mexico: Is Trump playing with fire?

Trump's Greenland, Canada threats reflect angst over Russia shipping

Canada is not interested in White House boot licking. So what?

Military Industrial Complex

POGO The Bunker

US quest for superweapons runs into reality

This week in The Bunker: President Trump’s Tom Swiftian battleship dream hits rough seas; his impenetrable missile shield of dreams runs into reality; and more.

Media

Iran school attack

Why did mainstream media slow-walk coverage of school attack?

Gen Z doesn't have the same hang-ups about Iran as older Americans

Gen Z doesn't have the same hang-ups about Iran as older Americans

Ngo Dinh Diem vietnam coup assassination

'Kennedy's Coup' signaled regime change doom loop for US

Hegseth to take control of Stars & Stripes for 'warfighter' makeover

Hegseth to take control of Stars & Stripes for 'warfighter' makeover

Global Crises

Trump's cuts are pushing the UN out of Geneva. That may be a win.

Trump's cuts are pushing the UN out of Geneva. That may be a win.

Budget shortfalls could force the organization to move closer to the communities that it's meant to serve