Emerging Risks

Poland, concerned about fighting around Ukraine's Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant, has distributed iodine tablets to regional fire departments to give to people in the event of radioactive exposure, a deputy minister said on Thursday.

archived 21 Sep 2022 06:29:33 UTC

How Washington came to see China as an existential threat, explained.

Russian leader’s escalatory threat to annex parts of Ukraine in effort to halt counteroffensive is fraught with risk

By publicly announcing that an attack on Tel Aviv and Haifa is being planned, Heydari gives Israel a reason to claim "the right of self-defense" or "preventive war" if and when it decides to take military action against the Islamic Republic. He says that

The growing ties between China and Russia are sparking new fears among U.S. war planners that the nuclear powers will soon pose a unified nuclear threat, the Air Force general nominated to head the nation’s nuclear deterrence arsenal told Congress.

A ‘tsunami of hunger’ and ‘real and dangerous risk of multiple famines this year’, head of World Food Programme warns.

War fears are no longer alarmist as the terror group supplants U.N. forces, increases military readiness, and becomes more reckless on Lebanon's southern border

The Karish maritime reservoir, part of which is claimed by Lebanon, is estimated to hold 2-3tn cubic feet of natural gas

Russia remains annoyed that the Ukrainian military has been using Starlink. However, SpaceX CEO Elon Musk tells the public: 'Starlink is meant for peaceful use only.'

National Security Council urges citizens to check advisories before travel; Mossad foiled several potential attacks against Israelis in Turkey earlier this year

There are signs that a new Hezbollah attack may be coming in the next few weeks. This time the context is a natural gas dispute between Lebanon and Israel now being mediated by the United States.

Two scientists said the American Physical Society had erred in evaluating their plan to use drones to shoot down North Korean long-range missiles.

The tempo of attacks reflects a more general readiness for confrontation as the region enters a new phase.

The Plan A simulation has been viewed more than one million times since Russia launched its full-scale invasion of Ukraine in February.

Despite superior firepower, Russian forces have failed to fulfil their potential and face a dispiriting battle to regain the upper hand over Ukrainesia-Ukraine war: latest update

archived 18 Sep 2022 11:05:31 UTC

The last time Chinese leader Xi Jinping and Russian President Vladimir Putin sat down face to face, they declared triumphantly the arrival of a "new era" in international relations.

Putin's favorite ideologue calls for total mobilization of Russia against decadent West

archived 18 Sep 2022 14:09:13 UTC

A U.S. president trumpeting the prowess of the American military is a familiar refrain but a new paper from the Mitchell Institute details an underfunded U.S. Air Force which may not be able to win against China.

archived 18 Sep 2022 06:53:45 UTC

Peter Zeihan "You Have No Idea What Is Coming"- It's Getting REALLY Serious#peterzeihan #zeihan Under Section 107 of the Copyright Act 1976, allowance is mad...

  This is a wake-up call. There is no other way to describe it. It is not about the IDF

archived 17 Sep 2022 19:58:50 UTC

The Collapse of Empiresby Peter Zeihan on September 15, 2022 The success of Ukrainian forces against Russian troops over the last week is forcing a series of...

The U.S. Department of Defense considers China the pacing threat to the United States as its military buildup, economic coercion, and political warfare threaten the U.S.-led world order that serves the interests of Americans.[1]

The Kremlin said on Wednesday that Ukraine's ongoing ambitions to join the Western NATO military alliance presented a threat to Russia's security and highlighted the necessity for Russia to conduct what it calls a "special military operation" in Ukraine.

If nothing is done within days, people in Somalia will start dying, according to the Red Cross. Experts say that lessons from previous famines have to be learned to prevent mass casualties.

archived 15 Sep 2022 05:14:43 UTC