Author: Michael

Trump Administration Threatens Hezbollah

Well, that didn’t take long.
This morning, Trump Middle East Envoy To Syria, Tom Barrack threatened Hezbollah in Syria.
US envoy to Syria Tom Barrack, “If Hezbollah joins the war between Israel and Iran, it would be a “very bad decision.”
We now have the President of the United States saying WE want ‘total victory’ in Iran, ‘Unconditional Surrender’, and his envoy is threatening Hezbollah in Lebanon.

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Russian Security Council Secretary Sergei Shoigu has confirmed that the Korean People’s Army will dispatch 1000 mine clearance experts and 5000 military engineers to support de-mining and reconstruction efforts in the Russian Kursk region, following the routing of the last Ukrainian forces there in April.  The official described the new deployment as an extension of North Korea’s Read More

Whether the United States defines China as a global threat or a predominantly regional one will have pervasive implications for U.S. alliance and deterrence strategy in Europe and the Indo-Pacific. The second Trump and Biden administrations agree on a key fact: China constitutes the most serious and systemic challenge to U.S. power and interests. Yet, they seem to disagree on how to characterize the nature and scale of that challenge.

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Editor’s Note: This is the second in a series of three articles on the U.S. Marine Corps. The first article was published on June 16, 2025.In just over 20 years, the Marine Corps has gone from being America’s reliable middleweight force in readiness to more of a secondary, general purpose backup force. Today, marines are more likely to find themselves assisting special operations teams and U.S. Army crisis response task forces than spearheading operations.

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Footage released by the Israel Defence Forces has confirmed an air strike on Iran’s Arak heavy water nuclear reactor, located approximately 250 kilometres southwest of Tehran, in the early hours of June 19. Israel’s armed forces reported that the attack was aimed at a reactor component “intended for plutonium production,” which was “designed for the production of high-grade plutonium,” alleging that the facility posed a threat to Israeli security and had the potential to be used to create materials for an Iranian nuclear weapons program.

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