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I defended NATO’s values. I no longer recognize what NATO defends.The Alliance's founding documents haven't changed. Its founding nation has. -
Sanctions finally squeezed Russia’s oil revenues in half. Then Iran sent prices back up—three weeks too late.The Iran windfall arrived three weeks after Q1 closed. Now Moscow is eyeing the war budget. -
9,000 drones, terabytes a day: Ukraine opens battlefield data to allied AI trainersUkraine is a frontrunner in the AI weapon race. One of its advantages: a wealth of battlefield data -
The Hungary-Ukraine crisis, explainedOne Russian drone, five fronts, seven weeks—seized gold, deployed troops, blocked billions, and a pipeline Russia bombed -
The US waiver was meant to stabilize markets. Russia’s oil income jumped $890 million in a week.Bloomberg data shows the $28 penalty Western sanctions built into every Russian barrel has nearly vanished. -
The EU introduced fertilizer tariffs to cut Russian war revenues. Budapest wants them suspended. The election is in 27 days.Budapest wants Russia’s fertilizer revenues restored. It’s blaming Iran. -
She showed up. In memoriam: Christine Eliashevsky-ChraibiShe wrote the truth, and the truth traveled. -
Russia hit Ukraine’s hydropower plant eight days ago — and poisoned a river that flows into MoldovaMoldova's Environment Minister said the oil volume in the Dniester already "significantly exceeds" the initially reported 1.5 tonnes. -
Two weeks of someone else’s war earned Russia more than a month of someone else’s sanctions cost itZelenskyy says the windfall—compounded by US sanctions relief—gives Putin more room to keep fighting. -
Zelenskyy calls European pipeline pressure “blackmail”—and a sanctions rollback in disguiseThe president says some European leaders are conditioning weapons supplies on Ukraine restoring Russian oil revenues. -
Mined in, starved out, hunted from above—life in the towns Russia demands at the peace tableIn occupied Oleshky, mined roads trap civilians while Russian drone trainees use food queues as practice targets. Residents call it "safari." -
Security guarantees without NATO: Are they worth the paper they’re written on?Western promises won’t stop a second invasion. Ukraine’s army might. -
Frontline report: Ukraine gutted Russia’s spring offensive staging ground—400 sq km gone in weeksRussia planned to launch its spring offensive from Dnipropetrovsk Oblast. Ukraine got there first—and Starlink's collapse helped. -
43% of Russian POWs rated Ukrainians as less than fully human — and Kremlin propaganda explains whyThe more a captured Russian soldier believed Kremlin narratives, the more likely he was to dehumanize Ukrainians on a validated scientific scale — a finding researchers say helps build the legal case against Russia's propagandists as abettors of aggression. -
Countries turn to Ukraine for help as Iran shows up their outdated air defensesUkraine gets window of opportunity to educate the world how to defend against the modern air war -
We scored every way the Iran war hits Ukraine. Two gains, eight losses.We scored every military, economic, and geopolitical factor. The result isn't close. -
Iran threatened to close Hormuz. That was enough.When a strait closes on paper, prices move as if it has closed for real. -
Naftogaz wins $1.4 billion Gazprom case—now comes the harder partSwitzerland’s highest court closed Gazprom’s last appeal. Collecting is another matter. -
“They don’t like the EU”: Europe’s top diplomat says Washington wants to divide EuropeKaja Kallas told the Financial Times that the United States "does not like the European Union" and has been "very clear" it wants to divide Europe — a charge she levelled as Washington launched new trade probes against the bloc this week. -
Forget easing Russian sanctions. Europe should be boarding Russian tankers.Wagner veterans ride Russia's oil tankers through NATO waters. The cargo could fill Europe's reserves. Nobody stops them.