After the failed negotiations this weekend in Islamabad and the U.S. naval blockade of Iranian ports and coastal areas, the conflict appears poised to resume. Yet Washington heads into the next phase with a clearer understanding of the stakes because the past six-plus weeks have offered a stark lesson about the insecurity of global energy and the vulnerability of maritime choke points.
A setback for Moscow in Budapest;
Moscow boosts Iranian strikes;
A budget blowout;
The Kremlin targets another rights group
Oil shipment refocuses attention on Russian spy hub;
Moscow's energy windfall illusion;
The Kremlin's hybrid war continues;
Russo-Iranian nuke ties hit by new war
Ukraine is demonstrating, both in word and in deed, that it can help shape the shared fight against today’s revisionist axis. Here’s hoping that the Trump administration takes notice.
Russia's demographic crisis gets deeper;
The Kremlin expands its digital crackdown;
Moscow eyes Afghan labor;
The Kremlin rewrites Russian history