Why Did Trump Fire Pam Bondi And Throw Caroline Leavitt Under The Bus? There is a pattern in how Donald Trump manages people, and it has nothing to do with performance. It has everything to do with polls. On March 31, standing in the Oval Office, Trump complained to reporters that he was receiving “93% bad publicity.” Rather than consider that the publicity might reflect …

Issue #51: The Strait Is The Global Food Chain One-fifth of globally traded oil moved1 through the Strait of Hormuz every day. Twenty-two percent of global LNG. Qatar’s Ras Laffan facility which is the source of roughly 20 percent of global LNG exports was struck by Iranian drones and shut down production at the start of the 2026 Iran War. Marine insurance premiums are still …

Arms control doesn’t just mean treaties. It means inspections. Verification. Satellites watching missile silos. Inspectors counting warheads. Communication channels between adversaries so that a radar malfunction doesn’t get interpreted as an incoming strike. The 1983 Soviet satellite false alarm nearly ended the world. A Soviet officer named Stanislav Petrov chose not to report what his instruments showed as an incoming American first strike, and he …

In May 2025 — approx ten months ago — India and Pakistan, both nuclear-armed states, engaged in four days of open conflict involving cross-border drone and missile attacks. The Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists described it as “nuclear brinkmanship.” Two countries with a combined nuclear arsenal of roughly 300 warheads exchanged live fire for four days and the world did not end. The crisis de-escalated. …

NATO states have less than 5 percent of the air defence capabilities necessary to protect central and eastern Europe from large-scale attack. That figure comes from the Financial Times, sourced from European officials. Less than 5 percent. The alliance exists and their  flags fly. The summits happen. The communiqués are issued. The spending pledges are made. And yet the actual physical infrastructure required to defend …

Russia tested the Burevestnik nuclear-powered cruise missile in October 2025. The missile is nicknamed “Flying Chernobyl” because it emits radioactive exhaust from its unshielded reactor. It can fly for 15 hours non-stop and cover 14,000 kilometres. Putin says its true range could be unlimited. A nuclear-powered missile with potentially unlimited range that leaves a trail of radioactive contamination wherever it flies. This is a real …