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Giving the OA-1K a standoff strike capability has been seen as one potential way to expand its relevance in an era focused on high-end foes.

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In November 2025, the U. S. Congress passed the Epstein Files Transparency Act. Last December, a “revamped Nazi-loot restitution bill was passed by the US Senate unanimously”. And last week, a senate hearing was held in which some senators pressured UBS management to release files regarding financial services activity for fleeing German Nazi officials to Argentina following WWII. This is alleged to have been historically faciliated by their recently acquired Credit Suisse in 2023. (See hearing on YouTube here.

CEO of Russia’s arms export conglomerate Rosoboronexport Alexander Mikheev has claimed that the Su-57 and Su-35 fighters have continued to receive considerable interest among potential clients. This statement closely coincided with the release of the first footage showing the Su-57 in service with a foreign operator, namely the Algerian Air Force, after the new fifth generation aircraft was confirmed in November 2024 to have been brought into service. Mikheev observed:
“Our partners are interested in the latest high-tech models that meet the latest global market trends.

A number of sources have reported that the Chinese People’s Liberation Army Navy has deployed a Type 055 class destroyer to lead a contingent for operations around the Gulf of Oman and northern Indian Ocean, including a smaller Type 052D class destroyer, and the Liaowang-1 maritime space-tracking and surveillance ship.

In early January 2026, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu dropped a bombshell. In an interview for the Economist, he claimed that he sought to “taper off” the $3.8 billion in military aid that Israel receives from the United States or even end this longstanding military assistance program entirely. Yet, Netanyahu claimed in the same interview that Israel is embroiled in a battle to defend all “western civilisation” from “fanatic forces” who wanted to “take us back to the early Middle Ages.

The next great biological threat may not begin in a wet market, a jungle, or a laboratory accident. It may begin on a laptop with a commercially available AI model.In October 2025, AI researchers from Microsoft reported that generative AI tools could design dangerous proteins capable of evading biosecurity and, alarmingly, could slip past the screening systems used by DNA manufacturers.In February 2025, researchers at Arc Institute released Evo 2, an AI model trained on 128,000 genomes that can design entirely new organisms.

Russian Ambassador to the United Kingdom Andrey Kelin has stated that the degree of Britain’s involvement in the ongoing Russian-Ukrainian War has strengthened a consensus that it is an active participant in the conflict. “Britain provides Kiev with political direction, supports it financially and with materiel, shares intelligence, arms, trains, and fights alongside the Ukrainian armed forces and other militarised structures,” he stated, concluding that on this basis: “We have every right to consider London as a de facto party to the conflict.

The U.S. Armed Forces have continued to expand their presences across major energy supply routes, as part of a campaign which analysts have warned appears intended to position assets to impose an offshore blockade against Western Bloc adversaries, in particular China. Highlighting this emerging security challenge, Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov warned: “the U.S. objective – to dominate the world economy – is being realised using a fairly large number of coercive measures that are incompatible with fair competition. To achieve this objective, the U.S.