A familiar storm gathers Sri Lanka’s inflation reached 8% in September 2026, above the Central Bank’s 3–7% target band for a third straight month, and another push is coming from abroad. Brent
Paying a ransom of $6 billion for 5 hostages held by Iran is a disgrace. Shame on America. Now Iran will grab some more Americans and try and extort more money. There
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Is NATO learning about its future in Ukraine? If so, it could be a bleak one. While the causes for war vary, inevitably wars become a testing ground for technology, battlefield tactics,
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In the Bradley Square area where Robotyne is located, the Ukrainians tried to press their attack to the east toward the village of Vebove. Unfortunately for the Ukrainians, they inadequately protected their
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Ukraine on August 29th launched its most massive drone attack on Russian territory including an attack on Pskov airfield near the Estonian border. At Pskov at least two Il-76 jet transport aircraft
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Yevgeny Prigozhin and Dimitry Utkin, the co-founders of the Wagner Group were reportedly killed in a plane crash outside of Moscow. Prigozhin and Utkin’s names were on the plane’s manifest before departure.
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If the Ukraine war ended tomorrow, the United States will still need to send hundreds of billions in aid to that country. The bill includes continuation of military assistance, budget support for
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The idea behind the podcast was a simple one. The US has strategic interests in Taiwan, in part because of its geopolitical location in the center of the First Island Chain, in
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It is still to early to say whether the direction of the Ukraine war has changed, but there is increasing evidence that Ukraine’s inability to penetrate Russian defenses along the southern line,
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Victoria Nuland came to Niger and demanded to see the former President, currently under house arrest in the Presidential Palace. She was turned down and met with a few of the coup leaders
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The Saudi Arabia sponsored “peace talks” failed to accomplish anything. Ukraine was hoping to bring on board more “neutral” countries supporting Ukraine’s policy. That didn’t happen, and the Ukrainians were no doubt disappointed
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No matter what pronunciamentos may come from Washington, the Russian government is expecting greater attacks on Russian territory, especially Moscow and maybe Russian ports, to try and destabilize the Putin government. The Pentagon says
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The Russian Defense Ministry has reported that on the evening of July 28, Russia attacked a Ukrainian command post in Dnipro (Dnepropetrovsk) with “precision weapons” after Ukraine launched an attack on a Russian command
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As the film Oppenheimer arrives in American theaters, it is important to take a fresh look at the race to produce the atomic bomb and the choice of Hiroshima as its first
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One of my readers took note that I was wrong about Prigozhin. I had argued that Prigozhin was no longer the leader of Wagner and had been sidelined and was missing. But
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Wagner troops are now either in Belarus training the army there. More Wagner troops are now in a convoy on their way to Belarus. A spokesperson for Wagner and one of its top leaders have released videos with
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