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Christopher A. Williams, The Coming War in America:  Iranian Threats to the U.S. Homeland,No. 671, October 13, 2026 Download PDF The Coming War in America:  Iranian Threats to t

The death of a worker from a Russian lab that researches plague has prompted questions about the disease.

Scientists around the world are still studying deadly pathogens in labs. Are we sure it’s safe?

Leaders from London to Berlin are using Russian aggression as an excuse to delegitimize the right-wing parties challenging their grip on power, writes Martin Gurri.

One of Iran's top security officials says the country is going through one of the most difficult periods in its history, as the rial hits record lows and Iranians drain their savings. Iran's oil minister also resigned on Sunday, though Tehran says it was for personal reasons.

The risks of AI aren’t what we think they are, as a recent security incident between China and the United States reveals

Sabotage at Leipzig, Swindon, and Skarżysko-Kamienna. A curfew across the river from Narva. New garrisons at Petrozavodsk, Lupche-Savino, and Pechenga pointing at Finland's 830-mile border. Andrew Michta reads the indicators and concludes Putin may be preparing to test NATO directly this fall and winter — not with an all-out invasion, but with an acute crisis designed to fracture an alliance whose

Our allies are tired of the U.S. pushing them around.

A period of global dominance has ended in plain sight.

As the Russo-Ukrainian war continues, Americans may blame Russian leader Vladimir Putin for starting “World War III.”  It is correct that World War III has started, but its cause is t

The U.S. blockade and dwindling supplies already on the water are squeezing Tehran’s most important export earner.

Argentina's President Javier Milei has renewed the country's claim to the Falkland Islands and threatened sanctions on oil companies.

Russia is threatening the West primarily because of a sharp geopolitical imbalance in the Ukraine war: Kyiv can draw on a secure European hinterland for aid, logistics, production, and economic resilience, while Moscow has no comparable backup and feels every strike on its refineries, industry, and infrastructure more directly. Russian leaders therefore see Western support as the factor that lets Ukraine keep fighting, and they want to intimidate European governments and publics into cutting that support through hybrid attacks, sabotage, and increasingly explicit threats. They frame the conflict as a war against the “collective West,” not Ukraine alone, and argue that NATO is damaging Russia’s economy and military capacity at little cost to itself. Without a reliable proxy that can strike NATO territory and absorb retaliation, Moscow treats hybrid operations—and potential limited strikes on European logistics—as the main way to close that gap, raise the price of helping Ukraine, and restore Russian influence over Europe.

While there is some question over the exact meaning of the phrase. It is clear that many of the regimes rockets were not ready to fire and it was not just faulty fuel Many silos were not functioning as well. Per

CIA Director John Ratcliffe’s mysterious trip to Moscow this week was preceded by fresh U.S. intelligence indicating that the Kremlin sees the United States as weakened by the Iran war, offering Russia an opportunity to escalate action against American interests and allies in Europe, according to two people familiar with the matter.

Shortly after Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine in 2022, I wrote a column under the headline “This Is How World War III Begins.” More than four years on, I wonder how much I got right.

[T]he terrifying fact [is] that Europe's erasure as a civilization is underway. Economically, Europe is in ghastly shape. For nearly five decades, the European Union's economic growth and productivity rates have lagged behind those of the United States.

"This Syrian entity is operating according to Islamist policy, the consolidation phase and the power phase. The consolidation phase is directed toward Israel,

Europe faces an escalating migration crisis, with 15 million displaced Sudanese migrants projected by 2026. Many are expected to enter Libya and head towards European shores.

UN nuclear watchdog head Rafael Mariano Grossi said Tuesday that his agency had found several "tons of nuclear materials" at a previously undeclared site dating from the rule of Syria's previous authorities.…

The U.S. 2025 National Security Strategy states that “The United States must be preeminent in the Western Hemisphere as a condition of our security and prosperity—a condition that allows u

On this episode of the Long History Short Podcast, I talk with Dr. David Betz, Professor of War Studies at the University of London, King's College. Professo...

IAEA chief Grossi said "tons of nuclear materials that could be put to bad use" were found at an undeclared site. Syria voluntarily informed the IAEA in July and granted inspectors access.

In December 2018, a noted Chinese economist gave a speech in which he put China’s GDP growth at less than 2 per cent. Other Chinese economists, he said, thought that the economy was in negative territory. At the time, the official government figure was 6.5 per cent. The Chinese Communist Party’s (CCP) current claim is 4.7 per cent for the first hal...

Americans pay little attention to Europe, other than to sneer at the Euro-elites and bemoan the fecklessness of European leaders. I am guilty of both sins. Mea culpa. But I am also aware of the coming…

Poland is preparing for potential war with Russia, developing advanced defense systems like the SAN counter-drone system under the East Shield program.

Also expect more nuclear threats. Putin has been rattling that saber for the past four years, mostly through the public pronouncements.