Ukraine

January 23, 2026 | Keti Korkiya, Dmitriy Shapiro

Russian Businesses Adopt ‘Tactical Poverty’ Measures, Signaling Growing Economic Stress 

“Tactical poverty” is what Russians are calling the belt-tightening measures Russian companies have been compelled to impose amid poor economic indicators for 2026. According to the Russian business...

January 22, 2026 | John Hardie |

U.S. Must Apply Greater Pressure on Russia To Achieve Peace in Ukraine

Presidents Donald Trump and Volodymyr Zelenskyy met at the World Economic Forum in Davos on January 22 shortly before U.S. officials flew to Moscow for another sit-down with Russian President Vladimir...

January 21, 2026 | Jonathan Schanzer |

The mission behind Trump’s Board of Peace is simple — and critics keep getting it wrong

President Trump is making big moves the world over. From nabbing Venezuelan dictator Nicolás Maduro to threatening the conquest of Greenland to pushing for a Ukraine-Russia cease-fire,...

January 21, 2026 | Clifford D. May |

The enemies of America’s enemies

Iran, Venezuela, and Ukraine are very different countries, but most Iranians, Venezuelans and Ukrainians want the same thing: to not be ruled by tyrants.  They look to America for support – which...

January 16, 2026 | Max Meizlish, Daniel Swift

South Africa Eyes Confrontation With Trump Over Growing Ties to China, Russia, Iran

South Africa is testing President Donald Trump’s patience, launching a week-long naval exercise alongside America’s adversaries. China, Russia, Iran, and several other countries in the loosely organized...

January 15, 2026 | Leah Siskind |

The quiet way AI normalizes foreign influence

Americans are learning to “trust the citations” in AI-generated answers—but AI doesn’t reward credibility, it rewards access.

January 15, 2026 | Jason Jay Smart, Ivana Stradner

Russian Orthodox Propaganda Takes Aim at Patriarch Bartholomew, Calling Him ‘Antichrist in Cassock’

In its ongoing attacks on religious organizations with the potential to erode Moscow’s sway in its former sphere of influence, Russian intelligence is now stooping to demonological name-calling.

January 14, 2026 | Keti Korkiya, Dmitriy Shapiro

Ukrainian Intelligence Claims Chechen Leader Was Hospitalized, Creating Risk of Destabilizing Succession

Chechen President Ramzan Kadyrov has been hospitalized due to kidney failure and is reportedly undergoing dialysis, according to a report sourced from Ukraine’s Defense Intelligence and published January...

January 13, 2026 | Mark Dubowitz |

Iran’s Islamic rulers are teetering on collapse. Trump must give them a final shove.

For years, policymakers and analysts have obsessed over how the Islamic Republic of Iran might fall. Far less attention has been paid to the more important question: whether it should. To...

January 9, 2026 | John Hardie |

Russia uses new Oreshnik missile for second time in Ukraine

Russia appears to have used its new “Oreshnik” intermediate-range ballistic missile (IRBM) in Ukraine last night. It is Moscow’s second Oreshnik strike in the country, which the Russians likely intended...

January 8, 2026 | Maria Riofrio, Max Lesser

Russia Recruits Young Migrant Women from Latin America to Build Iranian Drones

January 4, 2026 | Richard Goldberg, Peter Doran

Trump has started to liberate Venezuela while striking the heart of Russia, China, Iran’s evil global axis

President Trump’s historic intervention in Venezuela offers needed hope to friends of freedom around the world and nervous traders in the oil market. A pro-America, free-market government...

December 31, 2025 | Ivana Stradner |

Ukraine and the Changing Character of War

The Informational Front in Russia’s War

December 30, 2025 | John Hardie, Keti Korkiya

Russia’s Maximalist Demands Remain Chief Obstacle to Peace

Russia intends to “toughen” its stance in negotiations to end its war in Ukraine, the Kremlin declared on December 30 after claiming — without evidence — that Kyiv had attacked one of...

December 25, 2025 | Max Meizlish, Angela Howard

BRICS and forced labor: How Russia is exploiting an international economic bloc in its crusade against Ukraine

Excerpt For some of the world’s poorest people, BRICS — originally Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa — is becoming a Trojan horse for Moscow’s war machine. Under the banner...

December 24, 2025 | Clifford D. May |

All about Trump’s revised National Security Strategy

The good, the bad, and the conspicuously absent

December 22, 2025 | |

High-Ranking Russian General Assassinated in Moscow

Car Explosion Kills Sarvarov: The head of the Russian General Staff’s Directorate for Operational Training, Lt. Gen. Fanil Sarvarov, was killed in Moscow on December 22, Russian...

December 21, 2025 | Angela Howard |

New trouble for Bosnia as sanctions are removed on Serb leader

Bosnia and Herzegovina’s Serb ethnic republic, the Republika Srpska, held an election recently, and even though there is a new president, the boss remains the same: Milorad Dodik. Dodik, who Bosnia’s...

December 19, 2025 | |

Ukraine Strikes Russia’s ‘Shadow Fleet’ Tanker in Mediterranean

Latest Developments First Claimed Strike in International Waters: Ukraine’s SBU intelligence service claimed that Ukrainian drones struck and critically damaged a Russian “shadow fleet” oil tanker...

December 18, 2025 | Annie Fixler, Branson Chi

AI Is a Gift to Cyber Scammers and Nation-State Hackers This Holiday Season

This holiday season, the Grinch is using a computer to steal Christmas. The Department of Treasury’s Office of Cybersecurity and Critical Infrastructure Protection (OCCIP) released its annual consumer...