The Maduro government is ratcheting up his leverage over Guyana to get access to its newfound energy wealth By Juan Forero and Kejal Vyas Venezuela is backing up its threats to annex part of Guyana and secure access to some of the world’s largest oil finds in more than a decade by moving light … [Read more...]
China’s military alliance prepares for confrontation
Prince Michael of Liechtenstein China, Russia and North Korea are strengthening their militaries and relations. The free world should be prepared. A few years ago, China treated North Korean leader Kim Jong-un as a supplicant and the country itself with benign neglect. North Korea has enormous … [Read more...]
Israel’s Self-Destruction. Netanyahu, the Palestinians, and the Price of Neglect
Aluf Benn One bright day in April 1956, Moshe Dayan, the one-eyed chief of staff of the Israel Defense Forces (IDF), drove south to Nahal Oz, a recently established kibbutz near the border of the Gaza Strip. Dayan came to attend the funeral of 21-year-old Roi Rotberg, who had been murdered the … [Read more...]
Forumul Securitatii Maritime
Cuprins BREAKING: IDF angajate în război de gherilă cu Hamas; SUA propune Hezbollah PEACE DEAL | TBN Israel-ziua 126 1 Actualizare din Ucraina | O nouă tentativă eșuată de atac rusesc în Vuhledar | Pierderi nebănuite ale rușilor 1 “Talkshow sau o conversație serioasă? Interviul lui … [Read more...]
Ukraine Military Shake Up Stokes Uncertainty Over War Path
Natalia Drozdiak Ukraine’s reshuffle of its top military brass is stoking uncertainty over the direction of the conflict with Russia as the US Congress continues to block aid for Kyiv. After weeks of speculation and mounting acrimony between the two, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy … [Read more...]
Tucker Carlson: Putin takes charge as TV host gives free rein to Kremlin
By Sarah Rainsford Tucker Carlson laughed, listened - and then listened some more. During the American's much-hyped encounter with the Russian president, his fixed, fascinated expression slipped a few times. Especially when Putin's promise of a 30-second history lesson became a … [Read more...]
Tokenized, Inc: BlackRock’s Plan To Own The Fractionalized World
In the aftermath of the recent Bitcoin ETF approvals, BlackRock's Larry Fink revealed that soon everything will be "ETF'd" and tokenized, threatening to fractionalize not just existing assets and commodities, but the natural world, reducing most living things into Wall Street financial products to … [Read more...]
US Army spent billions on a new helicopter that now will never fly
Jen Judson The U.S. Army is ending its latest effort to build a new armed scout helicopter, known as the Future Attack Reconnaissance Aircraft, an abrupt change of direction that marks one of the department’s most significant program cancellations of the last decade. The service had already spent … [Read more...]
Smoke or Substance? NATO-Japanese Cooperation in the Indo-Pacific
Ryan Ashley and Jada Fraser Ever since the inclusion of Italy, NATO has had a more complicated relationship with maritime geography than its name implies. Now, with challenges to the international order appearing across multiple flanks, the alliance is trying to figure out how to further its … [Read more...]
Ukraine needs more troops fighting Russia. Hardened professionals from Colombia are helping
By ILLIA NOVIKOV and MANUEL RUEDA KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — Melodic Colombian Spanish fills a hospital treating soldiers wounded fighting Russian forces in eastern Ukraine. Ukraine’s ranks are depleted by two years of war. As it battles the Russian war machine, Ukraine is welcoming hardened … [Read more...]