What Bolton-Trump Demanded from Kim in Hanoi Is Impossible. He Can’t Insta-Denuclearize Even If He Wanted To That's a good recipe for him to end up in a shallow grave Ken E. Gause 10 Apr 19 576 2
If Germans Ever Spend 2% GDP on Military Like Trump Wants You Can Kiss NATO Goodbye At that point what do they need the US for anymore? Marko Marjanović 10 Apr 19 782 2
Libya Is a Proxy War Between Italy and France Once Gaddafi fell France moved to contain the jihadist blowback, and Italy the migrant blowback, leading them to partner up with different factions Marko Marjanović 10 Apr 19 1092 5
Last Election Shows the “Russian Vote” in Israel No Longer Exists The 1990s newcommers from Russia and the former Soviet Union have assimilated politically, are no longer a single voting block Ksenia Svetlova 10 Apr 19 394 1
After Decades of Refusing Egypt the F-15, US Demands Cairo Terminates Plans to Acquire Russia’s Su-35 Israel and the Saudis could buy F-15s, but not the Egyptians Military Watch 10 Apr 19 18188 5
If Amphetamine-Popping Losers in Nevada Weren’t Bad Enough Pentagon Works to Unleash Artificial Intelligence Drones 3rd world peasants can now look to the future where they are hunted down by killer robots Dave Foster 10 Apr 19 281 1
In 2018 Russia Bought Nearly as Much Gold as All the Rest of the World Combined And the spree continues Marko Marjanović 9 Apr 19 1567 5
US, EU to Hit Each Other With More Tariffs Over Boeing-Airbus Rivalry Bad news for world economy and global commerce. Good news for a multipolar world Tyler Durden 9 Apr 19 557 1
Tehran Plays Chess, Trump Admin Plays Checkers Why US declared the Iranian Revolutionary Guard a "terrorist organization", and why it will fail to have the desired effect Mohammad Ali Shabani 9 Apr 19 825 5
Flood Disaster Shows US Makes No Distinction Between Iranian People and State Trump admin feigns concern for the Iranians then throws them an anchor as they're drowning Daniel Larison 9 Apr 19 196 1
If US Goes Ahead With Threat to Sanction Shia, Christian Leaders It May Be Kicked out From Lebanon At a dinner they organized for him Pompeo threatened Lebanon's Christian President and Shia Parliament Speaker with sanctions Elijah J. Magnier 9 Apr 19 1176 1
The US Is Betting the Farm on Stealth, How Smart Is That? Stealth demands huge tradeoffs, is being countered, and has failed to revolutionize air combat despite being around since the 1980s Stephen Bryen 9 Apr 19 923 1
In 1961, India Finally Kicked NATO Portugal off the Subcontinent, to Soviet Applause, American Condemnations 400-year Portugese colonial presence in India was ended in a two-day war with 160 casualties on both sides Christopher Miskimon 9 Apr 19 1377 1
South Korea, Japan to Take Part in China’s Naval Parade, US to Stay at Home US thinks this is a "snub" to China, but the optics for China are actually pretty great Marko Marjanović 8 Apr 19 1090 3
Don’t Expect a Military Slugfest for Tripoli. The Libyan Civil War Works Differently Victories are scored through deal-making and power projection which causes enemies to switch sides or melt away Jason Pack 8 Apr 19 418 0
One-Third of Saudi Coalition Airstrikes in Yemen Are Against Civilians Another 11 girls were killed yesterday as Saudis double-tap a girls' elementary school Daniel Larison 8 Apr 19 406 1
Trump to Designate Iranian Revolutionary Guard a Terrorist Organization, Rubio Wants Same for Entire Venezuela Government Everyone Uncle Sam doesn't like is a terrorist Marko Marjanović 8 Apr 19 403 1
Congresswoman Cheney Wants to Make 10,000-Strong Occupation of Afghanistan Into American Law Other countries are ashamed or embarrassed of occupying another country — Dick Cheney's daughter would make it a law the US must do so Jason Ditz 8 Apr 19 710 3
8 Years After Toppling Gaddafi, US Evacuates Libya as Gaddafi 2.0 Advances on Tripoli Once again it turns out it is one thing to topple and destroy a nation's government, and another thing entirely to impose your will on that nation Marko Marjanović 7 Apr 19 1659 6
Russia Has Captured Two Thirds of the International Nuclear Power Construction Market Russia's Rosatom has secured more orders to build nuclear power plants abroad than all other companies in the world combined Nazrin Mehdiyeva 7 Apr 19 1414 0
How One Pilot’s Death in Collision With a US Spy Plane Created the Modern Chinese Military The Hainain Island Incident made China switch from an army-focused coastal defence posture to a naval and air-focused offshore strategy Minnie Chan 7 Apr 19 936 0
Yemen Is Starving Because Saudi Arabia Is Expending an Extraordinary Amount of Organized Effort to Make It So It takes an extraordinary amount of sustained effort to create and maintain famine conditions in our day and age Daniel Larison 7 Apr 19 668 0
Russian Navy Wants to Refit World’s Biggest Subs, With More Displacement Than WWII Battleships, With 200 Cruise Missiles At 48,000 tons Akulas fully submerged displace more water than the Bismarck or Iowa-class did Military Watch 7 Apr 19 2427 1
Missiles and Planes Make China’s South China Sea Island Bases a Maritime Maginot Line The military benefits of the islands for China more than make up for the political and financial cost of building them Brian Wang 7 Apr 19 1038 2
China to Finance Construction of Finland-Estonia Railway Under the Baltic Sea With $15 Billion Unlike Western Europe, Eastern Europe has welcomed Belt and Road with open arms Clare Nuttall 6 Apr 19 1972 5
NYT Cries ‘Russia in Africa!’, Plays Down Massive US Military Presence There Hard to get worked up about Russia's presence there when America's is literally 100-times as large Adam Johnson 6 Apr 19 620 2
US Conceding Defeat on Huawei, Won’t Make Good on Threat to Stop Intel-Sharing With Europeans It was all bluster Zak Doffman 6 Apr 19 821 0
US Threatens Lebanon Sanctions That Would Make Hezbollah Stronger, Grow Its Appeal Beyond Its Shia Base Sanctions on Lebanon and its Christian politicians won't weaken Hezbollah, they'll make it stronger Anchal Vohra 6 Apr 19 525 1
US Denying Turkey F-35s Could Give Russia the Chance It Needs to Export Su-57 Turks need to give their factories that won't be making F-35 parts something to do, Russians need someone to help share costs Tyler Rogoway 6 Apr 19 7001 3
Saudi Arabia Threatens to Sink the Petrodollar If Congress Passes NOPEC Bill Feeling the pinch the Saudis are tired of being squeezed, threaten to push back with the nuclear option Tom Luongo 6 Apr 19 863 1