April 17, 2025: NATO countries closer to Russia spend more on defense because they are aware of the threat. That’s why these countries also spend higher percentages of GDP in aid to Ukraine. Estonia, ...

April 17, 2025: Ukraine’s borders were established in 1991 when the Soviet Union collapsed into fourteen new countries. Three years later, anxiety over Ukraine possessing some Soviet era nuclear ...

April 15, 2025: On February 12th the aircraft carrier Truman (CVN-75) received a small gash in its hull and damage to its right side aircraft elevator when it collided with a merchant ships while ...

April 14, 2025: Like most western militaries, Russia has become dependent on the use of missiles and drones instead of artillery and airstrikes. Ukraine reports that from late 2022 through late 2024 ...

This is largely because the 1950-53 Korean War lies and deceptions linger longer because China and North Korea want it that way. Yet China and North Korea remain intertwined. For example, in 2005 ...

April 15, 2025: Recently Chechen leader Ramzan Kadyrov sought to dominate neighboring Ingushetia as the first move in establishing a Chechen-controlled coalition in the region. Kadyrov ran into ...

Our murky, blood-soaked moment in time demands a new look at geopolitics -- specifically, what constitutes a strategically valuable position that in human terms is worth expending immense wealth ...

April 16, 2025: Russia continues to have problems with local or foreign hackers committing major crimes. For the last three years there have been massive thefts of billions of dollars from financial ...

April 14, 2025: Vladimir Putin believes that one of the great tragedies of the 20th Century was the collapse of the Soviet Union in 1991. Putin believes fixing this is his principal goal and that ...

Key: On this table, figures originally given in various local coinages have all been converted to livres tournais, worth about £4 sterling; s, shilling, of which there were 12 to the pound; d, penny, ...