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Cross-regional, system-level stories that span multiple theaters, alliances, and strategic domains.
692 Dispatches
The US Has Cut Off Venezuelan Oil: How Trump's Reversal Could Devastate Caracas
How Trump's withdrawal of Biden-era oil licences, the green transition, and a looming glut threaten Venezuela's petrostate economy and its dirtiest crude.
Poland Wants to Go Nuclear: How a Single Sentence Signaled a New Age of Proliferation
Donald Tusk's nuclear remark to the Sejm, plus rising tension across Taiwan, Syria, and Pakistan's Balochistan, mark a more dangerous global moment.
Make European Defense Great Again: Inside the EU's Plan to Rearm
Inside the EU's emergency summit and the 800-billion-euro ReArm Europe plan, from the fiscal escape clause to the loans, legal hurdles, and hard math.
America's Foreign Aid Freeze and China's Fusion Gamble: Two Shifts in the Global Balance
How a total US foreign aid freeze ripples through conflict zones worldwide, and why a giant Chinese fusion facility in Mianyang carries nuclear weapons implications.
China's J-36 Reveal: Did Beijing Just Checkmate America's Sixth-Generation Fighter Program?
China's surprise Chengdu reveal of two tailless stealth aircraft challenges Western assumptions about its air power and rattles America's NGAD program.
The Myanmar Civil War: The War of a Hundred Armies
How a 2021 coup ignited the world's most fragmented conflict, where a hundred-plus rebel armies are dismantling Myanmar's military regime piece by piece.
Situation Room AMA: Rojava, Mozambique, the Afghan-Pakistan Flashpoint, and Why Europe Isn't a Superpower
A reader-driven survey of four under-covered fault lines — Kurdish-run Rojava, Mozambique's post-election revolt, the Afghan-Pakistani border war, and Europe's unrealized power.
Joe Biden's Foreign Policy Legacy: The Tarnished Record of America's 46th President
A region-by-region assessment of Joe Biden's foreign policy, from the Afghanistan withdrawal and Ukraine to the Middle East, China, Haiti, and Africa.
Conflicts to Watch in 2026: The World's Flashpoints Go Hot
A region-by-region forecast of 2026's most dangerous flashpoints, from Venezuela and Ecuador to Syria, the Horn of Africa, Sudan, Ukraine, and Taiwan.
When Nepal Caught Fire: How a Social Media Ban Ignited a Gen Z Uprising
A localized Kathmandu protest swelled into a national reckoning that toppled Nepal's government, exposing decades of corruption and a generation's fury.
How a Harris Presidency Would Reshape the World's Conflicts
A defense analysis of how a Kamala Harris administration might handle Taiwan, Gaza, Ukraine, and Sudan, drawing on her record and expert assessment.
Israel's Strike on Iran: Operation Days of Repentance and the Widening Middle East War
How Israel's October 2024 strike on Iran was engineered to punish without escalating, while the grinding war in Lebanon pushed the region toward a wider conflict.