Ukraine’s Drone War Expands as Kyiv Targets Russia’s Logistics Network – The Ukraine War continues providing insight into how the next great power war will unfold. After the two warring sides pioneered various new tank tactics and drone warfare, the Ukrainians are now emphasizing their strategic resilience by highlighting the importance of targeting the comprehensive infrastructure and industrial bases of a rival warring state to potentially alter battlefield dynamics.
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Nuclear Weapons: What Are They Really Good For? – We have written about Russian nationalist social media influencers and bloggers who have called for the use of nuclear weapons against Ukraine. While this is a plausible but unlikely event, Vladimir Putin has not dismissed it out of hand. He could instead test a low-yield tactical nuclear weapon to show the world that he means to frighten Ukraine and the West into submission.
Nukes Are a Big Waste
Tu-160 Bomber Russian Air Force. Image Credit: Russian State Media.
Russia Tu-160 Bomber. Image Credit: Creative Commons.
Russia Is Losing Crimea: Russia has controlled Crimea for more than twelve years now, transforming the peninsula into one of its most heavily fortified military regions and a symbol of President Vladimir Putin’s ambition to restore Russian power. It has even remained a popular tourist destination. But today, Ukraine is steadily dismantling any advantage Russia has over the region, not by storming it with soldiers but by making it difficult for Russia to defend and supply.
In an article published last month, this writer applied an American Civil War analogy of 1861-1865 to the current (and seemingly interminable) Russia-Ukraine War, noting that Ukrainian President Zelenskyy seems to be emulating Union Army general William Tecumseh Sherman by making Vladimir Putin and Russian society as a whole “feel the hard hand of war” via drone strikes that have increased in intensity, distance, and accuracy alike.
Xi Jinping has made a consequential strategic choice. Faced with Kim Jong Un’s growing partnership with Vladimir Putin, Xi is rebuilding Chinese political and economic support for North Korea and abandoning the pretense that Beijing is seriously pursuing its denuclearization.
The result will not be a more restrained Kim. It will be a more dangerous one.
China’s Xi Jinping. Image Credit: Creative Commons.
Kim is now positioned to draw military assistance and treaty protection from Russia while continuing to receive the trade, money and political backing that only China can provide.
These were sentiments expressed by more than one Russian internet retailer as a relentless drone campaign against Wildberries, Russia’s analog to the US online retail giant Amazon. For the third day in a row, these drone attacks have now expanded to several other cities besides Moscow.
Flipping through social media sites today produces video clips of one Russian seller after another screaming or crying in anger that they have lost their entire investment of hundreds of thousands of dollars.
More than ten days into the renewed fighting between the United States and the Islamic Republic of Iran, the Strait of Hormuz (SoH), one of the world’s most important oil transit chokepoints, is a point of contention between the two warring sides.
According to a recent BBC report, Iran’s leadership faces a set of difficult strategic choices that could shape the future of both the conflict and the country’s long-term geopolitical position, including whether Iran aims to restore regional influence or prioritize economic stability.
HIMARS Rocket. Image Credit: Creative Commons.
You likely remember the Houthis when the U.S. military was fighting an uprising in which the Iran-backed terrorists attempted to block the Red Sea and the Gulf of Aden and attacked merchant ships there.
The Yemeni insurgents quarantined the location and also plagued U.S. Navy warships with ballistic missiles and drones.
An EA-18G Growler, attached to Electronic Attack Squadron (VAQ) 133, takes off from the flight deck of Nimitz-class aircraft carrier USS Abraham Lincoln (CVN 72), May 21, 2026. Abraham Lincoln is deployed to the U.S.
While the United States struggles to rein in the economic impacts of the war with Iran, a second front seems to be opening up in the Red Sea, as the Houthis in Yemen declare a naval blockade on the Bab al-Mandeb Strait. The timing could not be worse for the U.S. or the global energy market as a whole. Oil prices have already been on the rise as Iran and the U.S. slug it out for Hormuz, but a second blockade could push prices beyond control and potentially trigger a global economic downturn. Worse still, with its hands tied up with Iran, it is uncertain whether the U.S.
“We Shall Outlast Them”: Will Putin Survive His Fiasco In Ukraine? The war in Ukraine is going seriously sideways for Russia. With more than 1.4 million casualties, its gas and oil industries taking a beating, and Moscow now under daily attacks from Ukraine, even its most ardent supporters are concerned that a coup could unfold against President Vladimir Putin.