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Iran War

Houthis v. Saudi Arabia: Round 2. This time it's regional.

Trump's Lebanon fantasy is running smack into reality

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

Trump is playing chicken with America's oil reserves

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Fox News screaming desperately into wind as Trump loses grip

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

Trump is playing chicken with America's oil reserves

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

Robert Kagan: Sometimes US intervention is worth blowback

Are US and Israel benefitting from 'migration blackmail' against Spain?
Africa

Are US and Israel benefitting from 'migration blackmail' against Spain?

Analysts accuse Morocco of unleashing undocumented migrants into Ceuta. Many note how Tel Aviv and Washington are seizing the moment with particular zeal.

Trump's quick hits allow for  AFRICOM comeback on continent
Africa

Trump's quick hits allow for  AFRICOM comeback on continent

Rep. Joe Wilson (R-S.C.) speaking with Rep. Steve Cohen (D-Tenn.) at a meeting of the Commission on Security and Cooperation in Europe (a.k.a. U.S. Helsinki Commission) at the U.S. Capitol in Washington, DC, on Nov. 19, 2024.
Europe

The Helsinki Commission is a Cold War relic that needs to go

Mark Levin Jack Keane Fox News
Media

Fox News screaming desperately into wind as Trump loses grip

Sudan
Africa

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

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

QiOSK

Staff quick takes, dispatches, and breaking news

ATACMS
QiOSK

Iran and Ukraine depleted 'virtually all' US long-range missiles: Report

Today's munitions crisis is acute but has been years in the making

Navy retiring USS Fort Worth halfway through lifespan

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

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

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

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

Middle East war

The collapse of national sovereignty in the Middle East

The region has come to look like — to borrow a phrase from 17th Century philosopher Thomas Hobbes — a war of all, against all

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

Robert Kagan

Robert Kagan: Sometimes US intervention is worth blowback

John Thune Senate leadership

Party elites so blind they can't see their base turning against the 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

Africa

Trump's quick hits allow for  AFRICOM comeback on continent

Trump's quick hits allow for  AFRICOM comeback on continent

Are US and Israel benefitting from 'migration blackmail' against Spain?

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

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

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

Rep. Joe Wilson (R-S.C.) speaking with Rep. Steve Cohen (D-Tenn.) at a meeting of the Commission on Security and Cooperation in Europe (a.k.a. U.S. Helsinki Commission) at the U.S. Capitol in Washington, DC, on Nov. 19, 2024.

The Helsinki Commission is a Cold War relic that needs to go

US is the real loser if Senate passes virtue signaling Russia sanctions

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

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

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

Trump wall street bell

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

Mark Levin Jack Keane Fox News

Fox News screaming desperately into wind as Trump loses grip

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

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