Author: Michael

Kyiv says that Russia has lost 1.5 million personnel since launching its full-scale invasion of Ukraine in February 2022.

On Wednesday, the General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine said Moscow’s cumulative personnel losses now stood at 1,480,750, including a further 1,450 casualties over the last 24 hours.

Tu-95 Bear Bomber. Image Credit: Creative Commons.

Tu-95 Bomber Russian Air Force. Image Credit: Creative Commons.

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Ukraine’s President Volodymyr Zelenskyy has announced that his country, along with the US and its European partners, has drafted a new framework for a possible end to the war with Russia.

However willing these parties are to participate in a solution that ends the conflict, it is the Russian set of demands that could still kill the entire proposed agreement.

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Neptune Missile from Ukraine Creative Commons Image

The plan calls for a series of steps, beginning with a ceasefire.

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Ukraine spent years lobbying for Western tanks and ultimately succeeded in obtaining them, but with the proliferation of cheap attack drones, many of those tanks are now sitting largely unused behind the front lines.

The dynamics of war have changed in just the last handful of years, largely driven by Ukraine’s burgeoning drone industry and asymmetric tactics that have allowed its military to face down a much greater power.

M1E3 Abrams. National Security Journal Photo.

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American farmers are on track for another potentially disastrous year, and Congress is considering spending $12 billion to help them weather the storm.

But the scale of the projected agricultural losses suggests that even an enormous bailout may provide only temporary relief.

President Donald J. Trump signs Executive Orders in the Oval Office, Wednesday, June 3, 2026. (Official White House Photo by Molly Riley)

President Donald J. Trump meets with his cabinet at Camp David, Maryland on Friday, July 31, 2026.

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Six months of war with Iran have demonstrated perhaps why other leaders before U.S. President Donald Trump were so hesitant to get tough with the Islamic regime, with the world having witnessed the largest oil supply disruption on record.

Yet the global energy system has so far avoided the kind of total breakdown analysts initially predicted.

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But that resilience is getting harder to maintain, and may not last much longer.

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