Germany Inks Deal To Buy US Tomahawks, Filling Long-Range Capability Gap

Growing Number Of Oil Tankers Successfully Sneak Through Hormuz, Shrinking Iran's Leverage One week ago we reported that "As Gulf States Plan Bypass Pipelines, US Military Is Quietly Helping Ships Cross Hormuz." We now have more evidence that, whether with or without a US escort, a growing number of ships are transiting Hormuz.  According to Bloomberg, off the coast of Oman over the weekend, 16 tankers clustered together to transfer millions of barrels of oil that had been stranded in the Persian Gulf. A month ago, that area had been entirely empty.  They’re part...

Trump Dangles $100 Million Kentucky Pharma Investment, But Only If Republicans Win Midterms Authored by Travis Gillmore via The Epoch Times, President Donald Trump announced plans for the Department of War to invest $100 million to support a pharmaceutical company, with the offer conditional on Republicans winning the midterm elections next month. President Donald Trump takes the stage at the Truist Arena on the campus of North Kentucky University in Highland Heights, Ky., on Oct. 17, 2026. Travis Gillmore/The Epoch TimesAntheia would receive the funds to boost production of ingredients used in...

Azerbaijan's "Multi-Vector Alignment" Poses A Serious Challenge To Russia Authored by Andrew Korybko, The “Trump Route for International Peace and Prosperity” is poised to become a military-logistics corridor for expanding NATO influence along Russia’s southern periphery and could thus force Putin into the zero-sum dilemma of accepting this or authorizing military action in an attempt to preempt it. Valdai Club Programme Director Timofei Bordachev recently published an insightful piece asking whether former Soviet Republics are moving “Towards Genuine Multi-Vector Alignment?” This is described as “systematic efforts to create and maintain, insofar as...