Tim Sheehy on Iran, US future planning on Hormuz crisis, Russia's crisis in Crimea

What Tim Sheehy gets right and wrong about Iran threat

Can the U.S. cancel Iran's get-out-of-jail-free card?

Russia's crisis in Crimea will only get worse

Andy Burnham

 What would presumptive new prime minister Andy Burnham mean for the special relationship

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Vance is wrong, oil sales will obviously fund terrorism

As Trump bombs drug cartels, Jared and Ivanka are happy to launder hundreds of millions of dollars for them

Feeble Iran deal a fitting end to a foolish war

World Cup water breaks, or how Americans bend the knee to sports broadcasters

Four years later, is Gianni Infantino still a gay, disable migrant worker?

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Will Trump brace or blink when Vladimir Putin escalates?

China, or why U.S.-Israel tech agreement must exclude top U.S. secrets

The military needs more innovative risk takers

Why neither Trump nor Iran wants a return to war

Republicans should reject Trump's 'Sun King' egotism

Will the EU finally get tough on China's existential trade threat? Unlikely

British GCHQ spy chief appeases China's aggression

Trump isn't abandoning NATO, he's rebalancing it

Trump should warn of military response to any Russian attack on U.S. embassy

U.S. rightly warns Russia over threats to Latvia

Capturing Raul Castro would be more difficult than capturing Nicolas Maduro

Trump promised to drain the swamp, he's flooding it

With UAE strikes, Iran tests U.S. credibility

Angela Merkel for Ukraine war mediator? Forget it

Only 250 years old, America has done more for freedom than any power in history

Ratcliffe and Rubio must force out Havana Syndrome truth

Trump's state visit is a goldmine for China's spies

The red lines Trump must protect in China

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Keir Starmer dragged toward Downing Street exit

Indications Trump sees Iran moving toward acceptable deal

UFO files add credibility to subject while underlining unnecessary secrecy

As the U.K. dithers, France slowly increases naval pressure on Iran

Ukraine plays Putin on disingenuous Victory Day truce 

How can the U.K. better protect its Jews?

Trump should pull troops from Italy and Spain, not Germany

Under siege, Russia cuts parade and cell phone internet

Trump drops a narcotrafficking bomb on Mexican politics

Solutions to save the special relationship

The U.S. should not change its stance on the Falkland Islands

What the Secret Service did well and not so well

Starmer and Macron underline European impotence with naval plan

U.S. tempts China by exhausting munitions in Iran

Economic intelligence on Iran and China is shaping Trump's strategy

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 Pete Hegseth's shallow theatrics are damaging the Trump administration

Illegal ATV driving in D.C. requires a police crackdown (editorial I wrote)

The long sail of the USS Gerald R. Ford

America's NATO and Israel alliances are important, but not imperfect

Iran peace deal requires a tight nuclear focus

Russia pushes the U.K. Navy to breaking point

Artemis II reminds Americans to strive for the stars

U.S. interests would be badly harmed by attacking Iran's civil infrastructure

Iran will not abide Trump's Tuesday deadline

Pararescuemen proves themselves again in Iran

Trump needs strikes and diplomatic realism, not ground troops, in Iran

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Rick Crawford drags intelligence community toward Havana Syndrome truth

Why the US and Israel have started dividing on Iran strategy

The war in Iran will last at least a few more weeks

Europe should provide Strait of Hormuz naval escorts, NATO notwithstanding

Congress must call time on the intelligence community’s Havana Syndrome cover-up

US preparing for island ground operations in Strait of Hormuz battle

As Starmer stumbles, Macron quietly boosts military ties with US

Rightly seeking Iran off-ramp, Trump must first eliminate Mojtaba Khamenei

Trump must not lose the battle for the Strait of Hormuz

European defense neglect underlined by abysmal Iran war response

Hegseth should drop the flippant bluster

Beware Iran’s Council at Fili: What if the regime goes underground?

Why the submarine attack is brutal but good news

Trump’s supercilious character doesn’t excuse Starmer’s strategic constipation

Starmer Iran, others from past few weeks

Keir Starmer smites the special relationship on Iran

from last few weeks... 

Khamenei is dead. We're about to learn how many terrorists crossed the U.S. border

Trump shakes Iran's tree to see what falls out

Keir Starmer takes another leap towards political oblivion

Support Iran regime change action? Admit the big costs to China war readiness

Mike Tilley and how Doctors are failing young GI cancer patients

Trump's UFO order will mean videos and reports

The battle between Kari Lake and her Iran broadcasting critics

Will Iran be 11 days late for Trump?

Trump and Rubio campaign for Orban, Xi's European pet

No country for free men

Gifting Xi a diplomatic opening, Trump must be ready to take advantage of his arrogance

Iran regime change would cost boots on the ground and China war readiness

Latest guest pieces for Unherd and Wall Street Journal

WSJ: How to destroy Trump's presidency

Unherd: Sidelining Bovino plays to Trump's advantage

Unherd: Why Trump is now focused on Cuba regime change

Iran strikes

The obvious risks of killing Ayatollah Ali Khamenei outweigh the theoretical benefits

Indications that Trump is about to bomb Iran

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Welcome to the District of Cluelessness

From this week:

China's embassy spy base in London poses specific threats

Imminent Iran idiocy

China military purge increases medium term Taiwan threat

From the rest of January (prior to Jan. 9):

China is toasting Trump's repellant Afghanistan rhetoric

Did Gen. Caine tell Trump the military wouldn't attack Greenland?

The Svalbard proof Trump wants Greenland for its energy resources

America's ICE-protester idiocy

What military options has the Pentagon presented to Trump?

UK faces a $38 billion test of its defense spending seriousness

Russia ship

 Seizing sanctioned ship, Trump shows how to break Russian brinkmanship

Iran protests, Trump military force, Cuba-Maduro, Maduro capture

What will Trump do if Iran massacres protesters?

The rewards and risks in Trump's growing use of military force

from past few days...

Why Maduro's capture is such a major crisis for Cuba

Capturing Maduro was the challenging but easier part

Russia-Ukraine, Xi Taiwan, CCP Islamism

Russia overextends its deception fetish with invented Ukrainian attack on Putin

from earlier this week

Xi teaches Trump two lessons on Taiwan

The Chinese Communist Party poses a greater threat than Islamism