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Congress
Washington Politics

Congress poised to do less oversight on arms sales

New bills would continue to chip away and the legislative branch's role in shaping US foreign policy

Grok
QiOSK

Grok’s latest gig? A $200 million Pentagon contract

The DoD is paying AI power hitters top dollar to bolster its bottom line, even in the ‘warfighting domain’

Trump White House reporters
Europe

Russia sanctions & new weapons, is Trump stuck in Groundhog Day?

The president who insisted that the Biden era policies did not work finds himself in a rerun of his own first term on Ukraine policy.

POGO The Bunker
Military Industrial Complex

Bombers astray! Washington's priorities go off course

This week in the Bunker: 'Big beautiful bill' shafts the troops, a purported defense-reform bill is anything but, and more

Trump Zelensky
Europe

Blob exploiting Trump's anger with Putin, risking return to Biden's war

Neocons and hawks are crowing today but the president would be smart to remember 'America First' means doing things differently

Syria sanctions
Middle East

Lifting sanctions on Syria exposes their cruel intent

As Trump shifts US policy, former defenders now concede what was long denied — the economic war killed more than it helped