Sir Ken McCallum revealed that hostile state threats now equal terrorism, exposing how stalled adversaries turn to deniable sabotage while Britain faces the cost of an escalating covert contest.
By Tom Beckwith ·
By suspending sanctions to import Russian diesel, the Trump administration prioritizes immediate relief for American consumers over the long-term goal of starving Putin’s war machine of vital revenue.
By Tom Beckwith ·
Unilateral White House announcements of energy ceasefires serve only Moscow's military ambitions, granting Russian refineries protection while Kyiv absorbs relentless strikes.
By Tom Beckwith ·
President Trump announced a fake energy ceasefire to lower diesel prices, but by pressuring Zelensky while Russia continues its attacks, he has traded Ukrainian security for a domestic political win.
By Tom Beckwith ·
Garry Kasparov bravely exposes Vladimir Putin's foreign assassination plots, but his lazy crusade against progressive youth ignores the corporate greed and inequality that actually broke American democracy.
By Maya Ellison ·
OpenAI reported Russian and Iranian operations using ChatGPT for influence campaigns, but the real failure lies in the editorial desks that let fake personas thrive.
By Nikhil Raghavan ·
Russia is attempting to trade its remaining credibility for time. By threatening nuclear strikes against NATO over the Kaliningrad exclave, the Kremlin is not projecting strength. It is signaling a profound fear of its own conventional limits. Nuclear theater cannot fix a broken army or a failing strategy.
By Tom Beckwith ·
The Kremlin does not believe in accidents; it believes in the utility of them.
By Tom Beckwith ·
There is a particular brand of magical thinking that treats the global energy market as a series of light switches that can be flipped by a single phone call.
By Klaus Berger ·
Thirty thousand security personnel are currently swarming New Delhi, creating a fortress for the 18th annual BRICS Summit.
By Josie Calloway ·
There is a particular kind of diplomatic language used in Vienna that is designed to sound like stewardship while functioning as a shakedown.
By Caroline Ashford ·
The Kremlin has always been fond of semantic gymnastics, but Sergej Lawrow’s latest performance is a masterclass in the art of the inversion.
By Elena Rossi ·
The German government has finally stopped pretending that cultural exchange can act as a hedge against state-sponsored terrorism.
By Klaus Berger ·
Now, let us be clear about the record: the arrest of the Professor Moltschanow is not a diplomatic spat, nor is it a sudden act of Arctic aggression. It is a collection action.
By Adele Rutherford ·
When you grow up in Flint, you learn early that the people in charge will use a very specific kind of language to hide the fact that you’re being poisoned.
By Maya Ellison ·
For a man raised in the shadow of the Rotterdam docks, the targeting of Leipzig/Halle Airport is not merely a security breach; it is an attack on the very plumbing of European prosperity.
By Bram de Vries ·