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The Pentagon Watchdog Puts the Iran War’s Cost at Thirty-Three Billion Dollars Through June — Most of It Replacing Munitions
The Pentagon inspector general's first accounting of the Iran war tallies the cost through June — most of it replacing munitions — and finds...
Military Hardware: Tanks, Bombers, Submarines and More
The U.S. Security Guarantee Just Got Hit with a Gulf Rethink: Two Hundred Days of War Have Shaken a Forty-Five-Year Habit
Nearly two hundred days into the Iran war, a new analysis argues the Gulf's oldest assumption is cracking: Washington, long the guarantor, now reads...
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Donald Trump Needs to Thank China for Never Letting Oil Prices Hit $200 Per Barrel and Smash the US Economy
When the Iran war began, analysts warned oil could reach levels double today's — yet prices only just crossed triple digits. S&P's chief economist...
Military Hardware: Tanks, Bombers, Submarines and More
Saudi Exports Through the Red Sea Have Risen Eightfold, and That Is the Very Route Now Under Attack
The Houthis say the strikes answered Saudi attacks on Yemeni provinces the day before. Government forces meanwhile report gains across four provinces and are...
Military Hardware: Tanks, Bombers, Submarines and More
Military Hardware: Tanks, Bombers, Submarines and More
Britain Sent Ukraine Exactly 14 Challenger 2 Main Battle Tanks. The 1st Challenger 2 Ever Lost to Enemy Fire in the Type’s History Was Destroyed in September 2023, and Ukraine Now Fights the Survivors as Long-Range Snipers Rather Than Assault Armor.
Britain announced the Challenger 2 delivery on 14 January 2023 and crews finished training that March. The tanks went to the 82nd Air Assault...
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Donald Trump’s Iran War Has Cost America $33.4 billion… And That Figure Is Only Rising
The Iran war has cost the United States more than $33.4 billion, a new report from the Pentagon’s independent watchdog says. Covering the conflict’s...
Military Hardware: Tanks, Bombers, Submarines and More
Iran Says the Tanker El Gaia Hit a Sea Mine — CENTCOM Says Iran Itself Struck the Ship Twice, by Missile and by Drone
The IRGC says the El Gaia exploded on a sea mine; CENTCOM calls that false — Iran struck the tanker with a missile last...
Zelensky Just Got Handed a One-Thing Ask, Delivered from an Irish Golf Course: Stop Knocking Out Russia’s Diesel
Speaking at the Irish Open at his County Clare course, Trump urged Zelensky to stop knocking out diesel fuel in Russia — one thing,...
Ukraine’s Special Forces Announced a Record: Their Drones Hit Critical Russian Plants Three Thousand Kilometers Away
Ukraine’s Special Operations Forces (SSO) said this week that it has struck a pair of Russian gas plants in Russia’s Yamalo-Nenets region, in what...
Russia’s Safe Rear Just Got Handed an Eight-Target Night: Strikes from the Arctic Circle to the Caspian Sea, per Kyiv
Zelensky says Ukraine struck eight Russian infrastructure sites in one night across six regions, Arctic to Caspian — a wartime record for depth at...
The Middle East Has a New Problem: The Houthis Declared a Blockade of Saudi Shipping in the Red Sea — and Vow ‘Siege-for-Siege’
The Houthis declared a blockade of Saudi shipping in the Red Sea and vowed a siege-for-siege policy, just as Riyadh reportedly reroutes most of...
More Than Seventeen Million Barrels Moved Through Hormuz in a Single Day, the Energy Secretary Says — a Wartime Record
Energy Secretary Chris Wright says more than seventeen million barrels moved through Hormuz on Monday — a wartime record that, counting pipeline bypasses, puts...
The Iran War’s Next Shock Might Make History — It’s Coming for Donald Trump and the GOP
President Trump suggested Friday that U.S. forces may soon attack Iran's fortified Pickaxe Mountain — even as new polling shows a majority of Americans...
Dollars and Sense
Dollars and Sense
Trump Just Got Handed Tehran’s Own Timetable: Senior Voices in Iran Say They Will Stretch the War Past the Midterms
Trump told a Dallas convention crowd the Iran war ends right after the midterms, accusing Tehran of dragging it out to swing the election....
Dollars and Sense
The Oil Market’s Hormuz Workarounds Just Got Handed Their Own War: Threats to Kuwait and Bahrain Ports and a Refinery Fire at Jazan
The escalation is reaching the workarounds that kept crude moving: the IRGC is threatening vessels in Kuwait and Bahrain ports over U.S. cooperation, a...
Dollars and Sense
The Problem That Could Cost Donald Trump the Midterms: High Gas Prices That Just Refuse to Go Down Thanks to the Iran War
Oil touched its highest since July after the Houthi attack on Saudi oil, and the pain is landing at American pumps: records on Labor...
North Korea Talk
North Korea Talk
Vladimir Putin Just Landed a New Manpower Pipeline: Kyiv Claims Tens of Thousands More Troops From North Korea Could Come
Georgia Gilholy reports on Lavrov's world-order message to Pyongyang, Zelensky's claim that up to fifty thousand more troops could follow the Kursk deployment, Reuters-reported...
North Korea Talk
Kim Jong-Un Just Got Handed a Gift Before Any Talks Began: Trump Ordered the War Games With South Korea Scaled Back
Trump ordered joint exercises with South Korea scaled back and praised Kim Jong-Un, drawing sharp criticism as Seoul stays muted.
North Korea Talk
Kim Jong Un Just Got Handed as Much as $22 Billion: What Selling Troops and Weapons to Russia Has Earned Him So Far
Roughly 9,500 are already there. Reuters reports North Korean supplies have at times covered around half of Russia's frontline munitions, and the next contingent...
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Trump Refused Two Requests from Saudi Arabia’s Crown Prince in One Day for Military Action Against the Houthis
The Houthis say they fired dozens of missiles and drones at Khamis Mushait air base — hangars, radars, runways, ammo depots — as emergency...
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The East-West Pipeline Just Got Hit at Full Load: Four Million Rerouted Barrels a Day, Now Down for Weeks, per the AP
Two regional officials tell the AP that Saudi Arabia's East-West Pipeline — the Hormuz bypass carrying four million rerouted barrels a day — is...
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A Ukrainian Drone Strike Forced Russia’s Ryazan Refinery to Suspend Operations, Two Industry Sources Tell Reuters
Two industry sources tell Reuters the Rosneft-owned Ryazan refinery suspended operations after Sunday's Ukrainian drone strike — both primary units down, a weeks-long closure...
Dollars and Sense
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