Emerging Risks

Predictions of a decisive offensive in the eastern Ukrainian region of Donbas on the one hand, and speculation about peace talks on the other hand, have gained new intensity in both Russian propaganda and Western commentary in recent days—however, neither makes much sense. Russian artillery and air strikes against the solid Ukrainian defense lines up and down the Donbas front …

Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said Monday that peace talks with Ukraine would continue, while warning there was a "real" danger of a World War III.

'There is no need to beat around the bush,' former parliament member Ali Motahari says; he argues Iran's failure was not keeping its plans a secret for long enough

According to Asharq Al-Awsat, the Arabic newspaper headquartered in London, “With Russia preoccupied with its war in Ukraine, Tehran is carrying out the process of filling the vacuum left by Moscow in Syria.” Just as Russia filled the vacuum that the U.S. left in the Middle East, Iran is filling the void that Russia is leaving by withdrawing from Syria. And this could portend a fundamental deterioration of regional stability.

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Companies that build and repair bomb shelters in Switzerland are being overwhelmed with enquiries since Russia’s invasion of Ukraine. Demand is so high that raw materials for the shelters are in short supply.

The changes in my own life, your life over the past year reflected a country transforming at a velocity so fast it's difficult to capture. It will be up to historians to give it a proper name, but I think of it as a great unraveling. What happened? What unraveled, and why now? Recorded on February 15, 2022 Bari Weiss began her career as a mainstream media prodigy, landing coveted positions at the Wall Street Journal and the New York...

Russia could be trapped in a full-fledged proxy war with a vastly wealthier, more productive opponent supplying a tough, local client. Putin’s revisionism is, ideally, not just limited to Ukraine. He wants a different European security order – one with a much larger, semi-imperial role for Russia. Alas, no one besides Moscow wants that, so the West has swung dramatically behind Ukraine. The war is indeed a proxy war.

Gonorrhea, once an easily treated and relatively mild STI, is becoming a superbug, with major public health implications.

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FBI Director Christopher Wray said on Sunday that the current scale of espionage and cybersecurity threats from China were “unprecedented in history.” “The biggest threat we face as a c…

Russia plans to test nuclear missiles capable of hitting the United States and Europe by autumn, an official said. “The prospect of nuclear conflict, once unthinkable, is now back within the realm of possibility,” United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres said last month.

MOSCOW (AP) — A new Russian intercontinental ballistic missile is capable of carrying several hypersonic weapons, a senior Russian military officer said Sunday. Col. Gen. Sergei Karakayev, the commander of the Russian military's Strategic Missile Forces, said in televised remarks that the new Sarmat ICBM is designed to carry several Avangard hypersonic glide vehicles.

On April 15, Zelensky announced that the world should “be ready” for the possibility that Putin will use nuclear weapons in Ukraine. Whether a gaffe or a Freudian slip, Biden’s call for a regime change in Russia, in the middle of an active armed conflict, checked off Moscow’s “existential threat” requirement for the use of nuclear weapons. Now finding himself cornered in an unwinnable position, Putin is invoking the concepts of “total war” and an “existential threat” to keep the US and NATO out of the conflict.

Putin and other Russian officials have repeatedly warned Russia could use nuclear weapons against NATO nations if they intervene in the Ukraine invasion.

The war between Russia and Ukraine is putting a massive strain on the global food supply. Food prices in the U.S. soared to record heights along with other c...

Ali Velshi reports on four separate instances of Kremlin-connected, extremely wealthy Russians with ties to the oil industry who have died by suicide since R...

Ukraine has warned that Russia plans to attack more countries and expand its war. Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said Ukraine's neighbor Moldova sho...

The likelihood of Russian President Vladimir Putin using nuclear weapons in his war on Ukraine is growing, local experts say. Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said that “all of the countries of the world” should prepare for the possibility of tactical nuclear weapons on CNN earlier this week. Tactical nuclear weapons are typically described as smaller nuclear weapons that can be used in a…

A leading Kremlin military figure claims Moscow wants to create a corridor to a disputed region of Moldova claimed by Russian separatists.

Under-fives are falling ill but the scale of the outbreak, combined with a complete absence of the ‘usual suspects’, is baffling scientists

The comments from Pentagon press secretary John Kirby came just days after TV analysts spoke about the Russian military testing a nuclear-capable missile.

Pro-Putin journalist Vladimir Solovyev discussed the war in Ukraine entering "a new stage."

The Russian military now says the official plan is to create a land corridor all the way along Ukraine’s coast to Moldova, where another border is under threat.

The Termination of Russian Oil - Peter Zeihan Russia Ukraine War UpdateFirst, infrastructure. All of Russia’s oil flows first travel by pipe—in some cases fo...

The prominent former editor-in-chief of the Global Times, a highly popular state-run Chinese media outlet, published a commentary on Saturday urging Chinese citizens to “prepare for a military struggle” in the near future. The commentary, written by journalist Hu Xijin, came after U.S. senator Lindsey Graham (R-SC) and six other U.S. officials visited Taiwan’s capital, Taipei, last Thursday. The visit was strongly denounced by Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesperson Zhao Lijian, who warned that China is “firmly opposed to any form of official exchange between the U.S. and Taiwan.”

Vladimir Putin retains overall favorability with 86 percent of his own citizens but only 4 percent of Americans expressed at least somewhat favorable views of the Russian leader.

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Experts say volume of dissent from Shanghai over zero-Covid measures challenging attempts to control information