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The United States’ policy errors which led to the chaotic exit from Afghanistan were only surpassed by Pakistan’s blunder in championing the Taliban and the […] More
Members Only The energy pressures created by Russia’s invasion of Ukraine are continuing to shape a new global energy future. An EU embargo on Russian coal imports […] More
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THE GANG THAT COULDN'T SHOOT STRAIGHT: There is speculation that the Russians may have struck one of their own cities with a stray hypersonic missile recently – causing damage and injuring six people about 220 miles from the Ukrainian border. Naturally, the Russians deny this, saying the explosion was caused by a Ukrainian TU-141 Strizh reconnaissance drone – but according to Newsweek, other sources say the evidence on the ground says otherwise. THE GANG THAT WOULDN’T SPEAK STRAIGHT: We hear Shaun Walker, a foreign correspondent for The Guardian has contracted with Knopf to write a book called “The Illegals” looking at the century-long history of Russia’s deep-cover spies from its roots in Lenin's Bolshevik movement to Putin's present-day sleeper agents. Walker tweets that it won’t be out [...]
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OPINION – “For the first time since 1945, the first time for us as a nation, we have two nuclear adversaries. We have always put [...] More
EXPERT PERSPECTIVE — Albania, a NATO member state, cut diplomatic ties with Iran earlier this month after blaming Tehran for a cyberattack against Albanian government [...] More
EXPERT PERSPECTIVE — On September 9th, Kim Jong-un, at a session of the Supreme People’s Assembly, made it officially clear that North Korea will remain [...] More
OPINION — Two reports released last Wednesday raise separate questions about the ability of the Defense Department (DoD) and Intelligence Community (IC) to meet the [...] More
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