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Iran War

Is UAE instigating a US seizure of long disputed Gulf islands?

Trump's April Fools' Address to the nation

'Regime change' might be biggest failure in Operation Epic Fury

Pakistani gambit: Can ‘coalition of the constrained’ make a difference?

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Why the US Navy won't blast the Iranians and 'open' Strait of Hormuz

Iran wipes out US-Israeli radars & sensors, changing course of war

How massive US footprint in the Gulf became a bullseye overnight

What's behind Trump's 180-degree turn, allowing Russian oil to Cuba?

USS Gerald Ford limps out of hot war and into embarrassment. Why?

Netanyahu
Middle East

What if Israel just won't stop?

The Netanyahu government wants different things than the US, so even if Trump wanted to pursue peace, his 'partner' is likely to make things difficult

Israelis don't pay for the weapons we 'sell' to them — US taxpayers do
Middle East

Israelis don't pay for the weapons we 'sell' to them — US taxpayers do

Fighting the same war, again and again
Global Crises

Fighting the same war, again and again

Vatican
Middle East

On war, Trump must remember the wisdom of St. Augustine

Hormuz is not a tool to end the war but how Iran wins the aftermath
Middle East

Hormuz is not a tool to end the war but how Iran wins the aftermath

How massive US footprint in the Gulf became a bullseye overnight
Middle East

How massive US footprint in the Gulf became a bullseye overnight

QiOSK

Staff quick takes, dispatches, and breaking news

Planes and pilots down: Is US prepared for real conventional war?
QiOSK

Planes and pilots down: Is US prepared for real conventional war?

We were told we had total air superiority and that Iran's military is 'decimated.' Suddenly that isn't the case and things have gotten much more complicated.

White House requests $1.5 trillion defense budget

Bob Kagan leads neocons changing their spots over Trump's war

Ex-Ukraine envoy Gen. Kellogg now with Trump sons at drone startup

Poll: Most American Jews oppose war on Iran

Asia-Pacific

China electric cars

On energy, China can sit this crisis out. Here's why.

Iran war could cripple the 'Yuxi Circle' or 55% of world population

Iran war could cripple the 'Yuxi Circle' or 55% of world population

Japanese Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi at White House Trump

If surviving Trump meeting was goal, Takaichi leaves DC a winner

Trump ASEAN

The Supreme Court did Trump a favor in Southeast Asia

Middle east

Israelis don't pay for the weapons we 'sell' to them — US taxpayers do

Israelis don't pay for the weapons we 'sell' to them — US taxpayers do

Most arms 'sales' are financed through Foreign Military Financing, which is basically an American subsidized gift card

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

Trump dover kuwait remains Army service members

Putting boots on the ground could kill Trump’s presidency

Erlic Burlison Lauren Boebert Lisa Murkowski

Republicans stepping up skepticism over $200B war request

ukraine war protests

Red or Blue? How party ID codes our positions on foreign policy

Ignorance about war powers plays right into Trump's hands

Ignorance about war powers plays right into Trump's hands

Africa

Africa Ghana

Vastly dependent on imports, Africans scramble amid oil crisis

Trump's Sahel reset banks on 'sovereignty,' guns + minerals deals

Trump's 'commercial diplomacy' runs into violent reality

South Africa: Between Iran and a hard place (Donald Trump)

Latin America

What's behind Trump's 180-degree turn, allowing Russian oil to Cuba?

What's behind Trump's 180-degree turn, allowing Russian oil to Cuba?

Hezbollah in Latin America: A political bugaboo rolling out on cue

Vatican quietly steps up role in US-Cuba talks

As Iran war rages, Washington opens a new front in Ecuador

Europe

Trump NATO

Is the Iran War breaking NATO forever?

'Private Mossad' goes after pro-Palestinian leader in Slovenia

Finland moves to allow hosting of nuclear weapons in dangerous shift

As Trump squeezes, can de Villepin give new backbone to France?

north america

Russian icebreakers

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

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

Tech billionaires behind Greenland bid want to build 'freedom cities'

Is Greenland next? Denmark says, not so fast.

Military Industrial Complex

USS Gerald Ford

USS Gerald Ford limps out of hot war and into embarrassment. Why?

The Navy’s premier aircraft carrier is a case study in misplaced priorities, most importantly putting politics and industry preference before readiness and efficiency

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

Fighting the same war, again and again

Fighting the same war, again and again

Aggressors rarely emerge victorious from conflict. So why do they fight?