Hostile acts of oil. At a meeting today, OPEC+ announced dramatic cuts in oil production. At as much as 2 million barrels per day, the cuts are the largest since the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic. The decision will likely push oil prices up. The Biden administration has already described it as a potentially “hostile […]
Pyongyang's missile launch. North Korea on Tuesday fired a ballistic missile over Japan, its first such launch in five years. According to Japanese Defense...
The reason for Russia’s invasion of Ukraine was clear: Moscow wanted strategic depth. Nothing Russia has done since, however, has been clear. The military...
New ship. Ukraine’s navy launched the Ada-class anti-submarine corvette in Istanbul on Sunday. It’s the first of two Turkish-made corvettes under a deal signed...
Putin's announcement. Following so-called referendums held earlier this week in Donetsk, Luhansk, Kherson and Zaporizhzhia, Russian President Vladimir Putin announced the formal annexation of...
Renewed fighting. Armenia’s Foreign Ministry accused Azerbaijan’s armed forces of opening fire on Wednesday toward the Armenian border and killing three people. The ministry...
Violent protests erupted in Iran last week following the death of a 22-year-old woman who had been arrested by the morality police, officially known...
Escalation. Referendums were held last week in the nominally Ukrainian regions of Donetsk, Luhansk, Kherson and Zaporizhzhia to see if residents there wanted to...
At no small cost, the Russian military managed to stop the Ukrainian counteroffensive in the northeastern Kharkiv region. Kyiv’s rapid success sent Moscow searching...
