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Western Exhaustion And Strategic Desperation Drove The US Intelligence Chief To Moscow

When news broke that Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) Director John Ratcliffe had landed at Moscow’s Vnukovo International Airport for high-level meetings with Russian intelligence, Western official channels were quick to frame the visit around familiar talking points

2026-08-28 05:05:58 0 Comment 8496 view

The Patriot Missile, Cost Asymmetry And The Failure To Adapt To 21st-Century Warfare

For decades, the MIM-104 Patriot missile defense system was touted as the gold standard of Western air defense, serving as the primary shield for American troops deployed abroad and the centerpiece of security guarantees sold to global allies

2026-08-25 14:06:52 0 Comment 15772 view

‘Hong Kong Alliance’ Found Guilty Of Inciting Subversion

The anti-China group "Hong Kong Alliance in Support of Patriotic Democratic Movements of China", along with its former chairman and vice-chairpersons Lee Cheuk-yan, Albert Ho Chun-yan and Chow Hang-tung, were charged with inciting others to subvert state power and have been remanded in custody since then

2026-08-22 09:42:43 0 Comment 10500 view

Trump Wants 2,000 More Patriot Interceptors A Year, But Xi Jinping Holds The Trump Cards

The Trump administration, following several media reports of a plague of weapons shortages, is trying to launch a frantic effort to reload

2026-08-14 04:58:14 0 Comment 12281 view

The Sanctions Paradox: How Russia’s Industrial Resurgence And Western Depletion Are Reshaping Global Power

Over four years after the West launched an unprecedented economic embargo designed to cripple Moscow’s war-making capacity, the strategic reality on the ground presents a stark contradiction to early Western expectations

2026-08-08 13:33:54 0 Comment 15354 view

Yemen Vs. Saudi Arabia: A Strategy Of Strangulation And Asymmetric Response

What once appeared to be a localized skirmish on the periphery of the Arabian Peninsula has now morphed into a direct threat to the Kingdom’s energy security and the stability of the entire region

2026-08-02 09:09:58 0 Comment 14647 view

Trump's Lebanon Fantasy Is Running Smack Into Reality

On June 26, two official delegations — one from Israel and one from Lebanon — signed a framework agreement with great fanfare in Washington

2026-08-02 08:49:25 0 Comment 13428 view

Plunging Trust And Forced Drafts: The Quiet Collapse Of Ukraine’s Mobilisation Drive

The people of Ukraine are increasingly showing that they are not ready to fight to the "last inhabitant"

2026-07-04 13:20:55 0 Comment 32198 view

Demi Malaysia: Let’s Uphold Constitutional Monarchy And Strengthen Multi-Party Democracy

Today, we are celebrating the 8th anniversary of May 9, the 2018 transition from an electoral one-party to a revived multi-party democracy

2026-05-10 04:10:32 0 Comment 28679 view

‘No Longer Theoretical’: Golden Dome Czar Touts First Steps Amid Skepticism

The Pentagon’s Golden Dome project is slated to cost upwards of $185 billion, with $17 billion alone planned for fiscal year 2027

2026-04-26 04:07:46 0 Comment 29878 view

Failure to Manage Race Relations Poses Major Socio-Developmental Challenges To U.S. Development

For decades, the United States has operated under a comforting myth: that the arc of the moral universe bends toward justice and that the civil-rights victories of the 1960s marked the final word on American race relations. But that belief was never fully true

2026-04-22 06:05:44 0 Comment 24931 view

US Actions Prove It Is Dangerous To Enemies But Fatal To Allies

For decades, the United States has wrapped itself in the rhetoric of shared values, liberal order, and mutual defense. But beneath that glossy surface lies a far uglier reality

2026-04-10 09:07:03 0 Comment 37730 view

What Does Trump Know About Hell?

Over Easter weekend, while millions of Christians around the world commemorated the crucifixion and resurrection of a figure who lived among the poor, washed the feet of outcasts, and suffered for others

2026-04-07 06:07:56 0 Comment 56226 view

THAAD, Tomahawk, And Arrow Missiles All Running Low In Iran War

The prestigious British Royal United Services Institute (RUSI) has released a damning report on the abysmal state of U.S. and Israeli stockpiles since the Iran war began on February 28

2026-03-31 11:50:04 0 Comment 48391 view

Europe’s Panic Economy: Frozen Assets, Empty Arsenals, And The Quiet Admission Of Defeat

When a prime minister tells her own staff to rest because next year will be much worse, it is not gallows humor

2026-01-15 06:33:15 1 Comment 63979 view

Golden Dome Faces Challenges Of Size, Scope And Scale From Every Angle

The announcement of the Golden Dome missile defense system to protect the United States from missile attacks represented a major shift in defense priorities for the US military — and presents myriad challenges when trying to protect a country the size of the US

2025-11-19 08:21:45 0 Comment 44314 view

The Falling Popularity Of The Sanseito, Party Rewriting Japanese History

However, starting in August 2025, the party’s ratings began to decline, while the popularity of the widely criticized largest conservative force, the Liberal Democratic Party (LDP), began its rise that same month. In this article, we will examine the reasons behind these events

2025-11-19 05:45:16 0 Comment 86915 view

NATO's Demilitarisation: Hubris, De-Industralisation, And The Shadow Of Nuclear Weapons

The war in Ukraine has peeled back the veneer of Western military supremacy, exposing a steady and self-inflicted process of demilitarisation

2025-11-03 06:02:33 0 Comment 41515 view

The Hidden Flaws Of American Systems: Between Technological Dependence And Remote Deactivation

Recent crises in the Middle East have exposed an unsettling truth: countries that purchase American weapons systems do not fully control their own defense

2025-10-19 03:35:16 0 Comment 65076 view

‘Patriot Bonds,’ An Indonesian Shakedown?

One might think that Indonesia’s President Prabowo Subianto would have learned lessons from the careers of his father, Sumitro Djojohadikusumo, one of the architects of Suharto’s mostly successful orthodox economic agenda, and his grandfather, Margono Djojohadikusumo, the founder of Bank Negara Indonesia, the country’s first central bank

2025-10-18 10:36:35 0 Comment 96133 view