$200 billion is not a rounding error, it’s a signal that Washington is settling in for a long Iran war while pretending it can buy its way out of the consequences. We walk through the Pentagon’s latest funding push, why leaders keep hinting the price tag will rise,...
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Trump Threatens to Cut Arms Sales to Ukraine If NATO Does Not Aid War Against Iran
by Kyle Anzalone | Apr 3, 2026 | News
President Donald Trump has threatened to cut off arms sales to Ukraine if NATO members do not join his coalition to reopen the Strait of Hormuz. While Trump halted military aid to Ukraine, he has continued to sell weapons to NATO members, who transfer the arms to...
Trump Says ‘New’ Iranian President Requested Ceasefire, Tehran Denies Claim
by Kyle Anzalone | Apr 3, 2026 | News
President Donald Trump said that the “new” President of Iran had accepted a ceasefire with the US. Tehran quickly denied Trump’s statement. “Iran’s New Regime President, much less Radicalized and far more intelligent than his predecessors, has just asked the United...
What I Learned Talking About the Empire
by Charles Goyette | Apr 3, 2026 | Featured Articles, Foreign Policy
Are the people as clueless as the Deep State expects them to be? You have to wonder. Standing on the tarmac in France before meetings with European foreign ministers, Secretary of State Marco Rubio explained to reporters that for Iran to ever get nuclear weapons would...
North Korea’s Nuclear Status Requires Urgent Negotiation
by Ted Galen Carpenter | Apr 3, 2026 | Featured Articles, Foreign Policy
On March 24, 2026, North Korean dictator Kim Jong-un made it official that his country is now an unapologetic nuclear weapons power. In an address to the rubber stamp Supreme People’s Assembly of the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea (DPRK), Kim stated: "We will...
The Kyle Anzalone Show: Netanyahu vs. Trump: Inside Israel’s SECRET Battle to Keep the Iran War ALIVE?!
by Kyle Anzalone | Apr 2, 2026 | Blog
The part that doesn’t get said out loud often enough is this: you can be “aligned” in a war and still be on a collision course. We dig into why U.S. goals in Iran and Israel’s goals in Iran don’t just differ, they actively clash and how that clash shows up in...
US Special Forces Assist Ecuadorian Troops on Anti-Drug Raids
by Kyle Anzalone | Apr 2, 2026 | News
US commandos accompanied and assisted Ecuadorian soldiers on raids targeting suspected cartels. Two US officials speaking with CBS News confirmed that US special forces were participating in the Ecuadorian operations. They explained that the US soldiers accompanied...
East Asia Foots the Bill For Washington’s Iran War
by Joseph Solis-Mullen | Apr 2, 2026 | Economics, Featured Articles, Foreign Policy
As the United States and Israel press their war of aggression against Iran—now entering its second month—attention has understandably focused on the carnage in the Middle East. Yet with the Strait of Hormuz effectively blockaded and global energy markets in turmoil,...
Criticizing Hawkish Evangelicals For the Wrong Reasons
by Jeff Wright | Apr 2, 2026 | Featured Articles, Foreign Policy
Make no mistake: the self-proclaimed defenders of America’s liberal democracy at The Bulwark love war. But the one thing that may possibly outweigh Bill Kristol and company’s love of war may be their hatred for Donald Trump. So, it should be no surprise The...
Iran Relaxes Restrictions on Hormuz Strait
by Will Porter | Apr 1, 2026 | News
The Iranian government has allowed a number of foreign vessels to transit the Strait of Hormuz in recent days, with some reports stating that a one-month permit had been granted to certain ships. Once a conduit for much of the world’s oil supply, the strait was...




















