Emerging Risks

Photo Illustration by Elizabeth Brockway/The Daily Beast/GettyThe rhetoric on Kremlin-funded state television is amping up the sense of urgency around Russian President Vladimir Putin’s NATO “ultimatum.” Olga Skabeeva, the host of state TV show 60 Minutes, said Tuesday: “The level of anxiety has reached its maximum. We’re 20 days away from the expiration of the ultimatum and the stakes are rising, even though it seems they couldn’t be any higher.”One day after Moscow submitted a draft of its Rus

As reports pile up about Russia’s military mobilisation on Ukraine’s border and the Kremlin’s diplomatic demands, questions abound. What is going on? What will come next? Will Russia invade? In fact, Russian President Vladimir Putin ...

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Urban violence triggers the rise of private security services for the affluent.

Engage the world Americans should, but make the world’s conflicts their own they should not. Only by stepping back will Washington’s prosperous, populous friends ever take on their military responsibilities for themselves and the world around them.

Though horrors of war have abated, many have lost hope in a future at home amid poverty and corruption, while some still fear for their personal safety

U.S. officials think Iran and Iran-backed groups may up attacks against U.S. troops around Jan. 1 because the U.S. is set to end its Iraq combat mission Dec. 31.

Retired Israeli General Yitzhak Brick has warned of a 'terrifying' scenario which awaits Tel Aviv in any coming war due to the 'unpreparedness' of the Israeli army and its leaders, Aram Media...

Russia upped the ante Monday in its dangerous standoff with Ukraine, openly warning of military action if President Biden and America's NATO allies ignore a list of demands Moscow unveiled late last w

In a letter, the scientists also urged President Biden to declare that the United States would never be the first to use nuclear weapons in a conflict.

Russia remains the most significant threat to European security, Estonia's defense minister says, echoing the line taken by his counterparts in Latvia, Lithuania and the Nordic states.

The BBC's Steve Rosenberg looks at what might be on the Russian leader's mind amid growing tensions.

Let's play Jeopardy! The answer:

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And Washington loses.

The Kremlin has published a draft of its security demands vis-à-vis NATO and Washington.

The adoption by Chinese communists of civilizational theory marks a new stage in the indigenization of Marxism on Chinese soil.

Washington and Seoul are making new war plans to address North Korean force improvements. However, the Pentagon is rather busy right now. Military analysts are talking about possible conflicts involving Russia, China, and Iran. Could Washington handle a fourth conflict, and all at the same time? Writes Doug Bandow According to CNN: “The US and […]

Israel has threatened military action to destroy Iran’s nuclear program if need be. But defense officials say Israel does not have the ability, at least not anytime soon.

The Russian troops assembled at its border with Ukraine sends a clear signal to Kyiv, Europe, and the United States that Russia might finally be ready to reincorporate Ukraine into Russia’s sphere of influence, severely increasing the risk of a major military escalation in Europe’s eastern frontier.

In this year of living dangerously it may be the U.S., more than any other actor, whose actions and inactions will drive the plot.

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"I don't think the United States is prepared to go to war in Ukraine. I don't think the United States is prepared to go to war over Taiwan," former Naval War College researcher Lyle Goldstein told Newsweek.

"The space program is rotting from within."

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In this article I am going to write about something that the vast majority of the U.S. population couldn't care less about.  Sadly, most Americans simply do not care about Ukraine, Russia's military preparations for

The U.S. has become accustomed to fighting “over there.” The next enemy may bring the conflict over here.

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As noted Russian journalist Pavel Felgenhauer pointed out in November 2021, “President Vladimir Putin declared that if the West deploys missiles to Ukraine that could reach Moscow ‘in five