Emerging Risks

Top US intelligence officials have been disparate about whether NATO and the US will convene militarily in the war.

There are "serious and credible" threats to current and former U.S. officials, including against former Secretary of State Mike Pompeo.

China is coming ever closer to being a peer competitor to the United States economically, militarily and technologically, Avril Haines, the director of National Intelligence, told the House

North Korea's missile launches could be groundwork for a return to intercontinental ballistic missile and nuclear bomb tests this year for the first time since 2017, the U.S. Directorate of National Intelligence (DNI) said in its annual Worldwide Threat Assessment released on Monday.

As the world focuses on Russia’s invasion of Ukraine and others worry that China will copy Putin’s playbook in Taiwan, the next terror wave against the U.S. is looming. For a United States

Defense officials are now warning that Russia may resort to using chemical or biological weapons in Ukraine, following an uptick in Russian disinformation efforts revolving around these sorts of weapons. On Wednesday, Kremlin spokeswoman Maria Zakharova told reporters that Russian forces had discovered American-backed laboratories developing biological weapons on the Russian border, claiming the 'urgent destruction of these materials' was part of the nation's real pretext for its now poorly-progressing invasion of Ukraine. This is just the latest in a string of reasons Moscow has given for the invasion, including the need to 'de-Nazify' the nation's government—an ironic choice considering Ukraine's

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Does Russia grind out victory? Can sanctions stop that? Might Putin go nuclear? Is China for war or peace? The past offers clues, but no certain answers.

Bogged down in Ukraine, Russian forces battle the consequences of systemic sleaze.

He’s not a man to admit defeat, so he could just keep doubling down.

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Vladimir Putin has “miscalculated” the Ukrainian people's “will to fight,” author and Russian-born US intelligence expert Rebekah Koffler says as she breaks down the president’s “masterplan”. “With Putin being a former KGB officer, this is an intelligence failure,” she told Sky News Australia. “But, overall, he did not miscalculate in terms of the west response. “He has been studying, and his military and his intelligence services, they have been studying the way that the west, the US and NATO, conduct wars. “He feels very, very confident that he is going to achieve his strategic goals which is the reversal of the outcome of the Cold War.” Ms Koffler said the Russian president’s next step would be to resubjugate “every single post-Soviet state beyond Ukraine” and pointed to Moldova, Belarus, Georgia. “Only the Baltics are safe at this point by virtue of them being NATO members,” she said. “This is his end game, and these are his next steps.”

A story of a train project illustrates the rot that inevitably develops behind a charismatic leader’s cult of personality.

Putin has led Russia into uncharted territory, and history suggests that his rule of repression and isolation is unsustainable.

China may be able to conquer Taiwan, but if it is anything like Russia's disaster in Ukraine, the costs will be a lot higher than the rewards.

A cybersecurity firm says hackers working on behalf of the Chinese government broke into the computer networks of at least six state governments in the United States in the last year

mSv levels from nuclear fallout. Note: most geiger counters are useless for fallout because their scale is uSv and maxs out early.

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In Facebook post, defense minister vows Israel will act against Tehran politically, economically, and militarily, 'whether or not' an agreement is signed

All of these [nuclear deal] concessions guarantee two consequences. First, Iran will go to war. Second, Iran will become a nuclear-armed state unless Israel attacks ... .

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Thirty years after the collapse of the Soviet Union, Russia is still peddling the old myth of Western betrayal of Russia by expanding NATO eastward after the end of the Cold War. Both Vladimir Puti…

Putin has strong incentives to prosecute the war, even as Ukraine evolves into a major, unanticipated proxy war with the West.

“Everything that’s not propaganda is being eliminated,” a Nobel Prize winning editor said as Russian authorities moved to control the narrative in the Ukraine war.

Banks and Russian oligarchs grapple with consequences of sanctions that have frozen billions of francs in Swiss bank vaults.

The Russian president is believed to have sent his close family to his bunker in Siberia, located in the district of Ongudaysky, close to the borders of Russia with Mongolia, China and Kazakhstan. That will provide a safe haven for Putin's closest relatives should a nuclear attack hit Russia.

Poland wants to donate its old MiGs to Ukraine. But there’s a catch — it needs U.S. jets.

Russian-issued cards will no longer work in other countries, and purchases from Russian vendors by cardholders in other countries will be cut off.