How worried should I be about hantavirus?
5 questions about the hantavirus cruise ship outbreak, answered.
Opinion | Here’s How Freaked Out You Should Be About the Hantavirus C…
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This Is Not the World Russia Wants | Foreign Affairs
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China’s Youth Have Started a Silent Revolt
China’s young people are no longer protesting loudly — many are simply opting out. In this video, we explore Beijing’s growing fear over China’s “lying flat”...
Avoiding Small Wars Creates Bigger Ones: Gadi Taub - YouTube
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Are We Heading Toward World War III?
Regional conflicts have expanded into global ones before.
Russia’s Economy Is on the Brink of Collapse
Putin is the Head of a Russian State on the Brink of Economic Collapse: Leonid Putin, meet Vladimir Brezhnev. Serious Russian economists are increasingly of the opinion that Russia is in deep trouble and that Putin’s policies are bringing it to the point of collapse. In that sense, Putin’s Russia is following in the footsteps […]
Are America and China Condemned to Repeat History? | Foreign Affairs
“This world is unlike anything any of us have experienced in our lifetimes,” argues Westad, a professor at Yale and a specialist in modern international and global history. “But it does look quite a bit like the world of more than a hundred years ago, from the late nineteenth century to 1914.”
The Next World War: The New Age of Global Conflict
At its core, The Next World War argues that the post Cold War illusion of peace has collapsed. Apps describes a world where great power competition has returned with renewed intensity driven primarily by tensions between the United States, China, and Russia. Rather than presenting war as a distant or hypothetical possibility, Apps frames it as a credible risk within the coming decade. A risk that is already shaping policy, military planning, and everyday life.
The Guardian view on Germany, Japan and the end of the postwar order: as US alliances crumble, a new world emerges | Editorial
Editorial: Developments in Berlin and Tokyo show how far the strategic environment has shifted in response to authoritarian threat and American unpredictability
Iran’s Regime Has Changed—for the Worse - WSJ
“The war changed the regime—and not in a good way,” said Danny Citrinowicz, who formerly headed the Iran desk for Israeli military intelligence. “We created a reality that is worse than what Iranians were facing before the war.”
How Eschatology Wreaks Havoc in the United States and Russia • russian desk
Beyond the establishment of a “vertical of power,” beyond the dominant influence of oligarchs close to the presidential clan, beyond corruption, nepotism, and
Former Nato chief to say UK's national security 'in peril'
Lord George Robertson, a former Labour defence secretary, will use a speech to accuse "non-military experts in the Treasury" of "vandalism".
The Looming College-Enrollment Death Spiral
After many decades of democratization, higher education could once again become a luxury good.
Iran’s Next Move Is the Bomb—If the Regime Survives
As the United States and Israel continue to decimate Iran’s conventional capabilities, it becomes clearer that their campaign cannot stop until at least one of two objectives is achieved: the co
Thomas Bordeaux on X: "For months, we’ve been digging into China’s nuclear weapons program, identifying where weapon components are built and how those sites are changing. Every production site we found has expanded significantly in the last five years. 🧵: https://t.co/7fbO4acm1k" / X
Every production site we found has expanded significantly in the last five years. 🧵:
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The Coming Revolution in Europe
Ralph Schoellhammer discusses the potential for revolutionary change in Europe, drawing parallels with historical revolutions. He emphasizes the role of econ...
Tuesday briefing: With the horror of conflict throughout the globe, how likely is world war three?
In today’s newsletter: Our diplomatic editor on how global instability feeds into conflict in so many parts of the world, and whether the threshold for a major global war has been met
Trump, Xi, and the Specter of 1914 | Foreign Affairs
"The world today is not heading for a new Cold War but rather a dangerous multipolar scramble like the early 20th century."
Core Analogy The current U.S.-China rivalry strongly resembles the pre-1914 world: multiple great powers in economic and technological competition, rising nationalism, weakening globalization, regional conflicts, and poor mutual understanding among leaders.
Like 1914, small unresolved issues risk spiraling into catastrophic great-power conflict; World War I killed ~40 million and was largely unforeseen.
Nuclear Deterrence Gap in Europe
Russia has a huge advantage in nuclear arms for use in Europe. In a crisis, Moscow might perceive nuclear superiority and try to exploit it. Lessening the imbalance may also reassure allies and
Are we on the precipice of World War III?
Countless potential black swan events could spark a collapse of our fragile geopolitical order
What happens next in Iran - Grok video summary
What happens next in Iran?
Tactical win, strategic failure.
The Iran War Expert: I Simulated The Iran War for 20 Years. Here’s What Happens Next - YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xcXfcXJvMXg
The Coming Crisis: Fingers of Instability
John Mauldin describes how a single grain of sand can make everything collapse.
AIs can’t stop recommending nuclear strikes in war game simulations
Leading AIs from OpenAI, Anthropic and Google opted to use nuclear weapons in simulated war games in 95 per cent of cases
It’s beginning to feel a little like Sarajevo in June 1914
If the U.S. does strike Iran, does that suggest a 21st-century Sarajevo and a prelude to a wider war?
US accuses China of ‘massively’ expanding nuclear arsenal amid fears of new arms race
China has opposed the ‘smearing of its nuclear policy’ while insisting Beijing would not ‘engage in any nuclear arms race’
Trump moves closer to a major war with Iran
There's little public debate about what could be the most consequential U.S. military action in a decade.
3 Reasons Russia Can’t Win in the War in Ukraine
Putin’s Most Embarrassing Milestone: Ukraine War Now Longer Than WWII Summary and Key Points: Day 1,418 of Russia’s invasion marks a grim milestone: the war has lasted longer than the Soviet Union’s fight against Nazi Germany. -Moscow’s early push toward Kyiv stalled not because Ukraine lacked warning, but because Russia’s corruption, poor discipline, and hollowed-out […]
A German General Prepares His Country for War—and the Clock Is Ticking
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Islamic nations will ‘do to Israel what Hamas did’ when they get the chance, claims grandson of former Ayatollah - The Jewish Chronicle
Ali Ahmad Khomeini told a Lebanese TV station that Muslim nations had a “duty” to “erase” the Jewish state