Ukraine sank a Russian liquid natural gas carrier in the Mediterranean. Iran is not the only country that can disrupt oil and gas shipping. Russia’s sanctioned Arctic LNG 2 export network is showing early signs of disruption after an explosion sank one of its shadow fleet carriers in the Mediterranean this week, forcing other tankers …
President Trump announced today (March 3) that the Navy will begin escorting tankers through the Strait if needed, and the U.S. government will provide political-risk insurance so commercial ships can operate. This is modeled directly on the 1987–88 Operation Earnest Will tanker convoy system during the Iran-Iraq Tanker War. Oil tankers are waiting by Oman …
Russia’s only operating manned launch site for Soyuz and Progress has been severely damaged after an accident with a Soyuz MS-28 on November 27 at Baikonur. The mobile service cabin fell into the fire protection channel by several meters, deforming the service bridges and access elements. According to multiple Russian sources, on Nov. 27, 2025, …
A Ukrainian unmanned surface vessel armed with an R-73 air-to-air missile shot down a Russian Su-30 naval fighter roughly 50 km west of Novorossiysk. This is the first time in history that a military aircraft has been downed by an unmanned Navy drone ship. Brian WangBrian Wang is a Futurist Thought Leader and a popular …
The Bureau of Labor and Statistics reported that the consumer price index (CPI) for both all-items and core increased 0.2% in February, slightly below expectations. On an annual basis, headline inflation was at 2.8%, while core was at 3.1%. Both also were 0.1 percentage point below the Wall Street consensus and the previous month’s levels. …
The UK is talking about sending ground troops to the Ukraine. March 2, 2025, Starmer has discussed the possibility of the UK participating in a coalition of the willing alongside France and other nations to deploy troops to Ukraine. However, this is framed as a peacekeeping effort to enforce a potential peace deal, rather than …
President Trump is proposing cutting the military budgets of the USA, China and Russia in half. Cutting the military in half for USA, Russia and China is also doable and makes sense. China and Russia have rapidly shrinking populations. Maintaining 2 million people in the military will not be an option soon. Russia lost 800,000 …
Trump says he wants the Ukraine war and the Israel war over before he takes office. Vlodymr Zelensky said he is willing to cede territory to Russia to end the war for the first time. The Ukrainian president said his country could give up land temporarily in exchange for a ‘Nato umbrella’ over the territory …
Russia appears to have suffered a catastrophic failure in a test of its Sarmat missile. The images from Sept. 21 show a crater about 60 meters (200 feet) wide at the launch silo at the Plesetsk Cosmodrome in northern Russia. They reveal extensive damage that was not visible in pictures taken earlier in the month. …
Ukraine has taken a few hundred square kilometers of territory in Russia in the Kursk region. This is an escalation of the Ukraine Russia war. IF Ukraine can hold the territory then it would be possible for an exchange of territory to occur in a possible peace settlement. It does increase the probability that Russia …
Russia has lost 13 fighter jets in 13 days but it is because they are flying 150 bombing runs everyday. Russians are flying more bombing sorties than ever before. Russian air force launched more than 150 sorties involving Su-34s, Su-35s and Sukhoi Su-25 attack jets. That’s 10 more daily sorties than the Russian air force …