Trump heads to China with a lineup of high-profile U.S. business leaders, but we can’t treat it like a normal trade trip. We dig into the uncomfortable reality underneath the photo ops: America’s dependence on rare earth minerals and specialized refining, including...
President Donald Trump threatened to wipe out Iran if Tehran did not agree to a deal with the US that ends the war and restricts the Islamic Republic’s nuclear program. Trump has repeatedly threatened to annihilate the country of Iran, but has not followed through...
US officials speaking with Axios claimed classified intelligence shows that Cuba has 300 one-way drones to attack US warships and the Florida Keys. The leak of the classified intel comes as President Donald Trump has threatened to attack Cuba and demanded regime...
After a meeting between President Donald Trump and Chinese President Xi Jinping, Taiwanese President Lai Ching-te urged Washington to continue selling weapons to Taipei. During his summit with Trump, Xi said that the Taiwan issue would determine the future of the...
A president says he has “the best plan ever,” insists Iran is “defeated militarily,” and talks like one more strike package can end the problem. We slow that down and look at the actual mechanics of a modern Iran war: depleted standoff munitions, limited Patriot...
A “ceasefire” that still includes ships getting shot at isn’t a ceasefire, it’s a pressure campaign with a short fuse. Kyle sits down with Lieutenant Colonel Karen Kwiatkowski to make sense of the newest swings in the Iran conflict, from limited strikes and fast...
The story we’re being sold about the Iran war is simple: it’s limited, it’s working, and it’s almost over. The reality sounds a lot more dangerous when you slow down and ask the questions leaders keep skipping: What’s the strategy? What’s the end state? And why is...
Diplomats speaking with the Financial Times said Saudi Arabia has been discussing developing a non-aggression pact among Gulf Arab states and Iran. Two Western diplomats told FT that the framework for the pact would resemble the 1970s Helsinki Process. The 1975...
During a meeting with President Donald Trump in China on Thursday, President Xi Jinping warned of the possibility of war over Taiwan. According to a recounting of the meeting between the two leaders, Xi said that if the Taiwan issue is handled correctly, then the...
Iranian forces boarded a ship near the UAE. The vessel potentially contained a cache of weapons. On Thursday, armed men boarded a ship near the United Arab Emirates, and it sailed to Iranian waters. The vessel has been identified as the Honduras-flagged Hui Chuan....
Your phone buzzing with political ads the moment you step into a church parking lot sounds like satire, but the documents and contracts point to something very real. We sit down with Nick Cleveland-Stout of the Quincy Institute (and a writer at Drop Site News) to...
The US Intelligence community estimates that Iran maintains nearly all its missiles used to control the Strait of Hormuz. President Donald Trump has claimed that the Iranian military is nearly defeated. Senior officials speaking with The New York Times are alarmed...
