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Comparisons between Donald Trump’s policies and Adolf Hitler’s regime appear frequently in opinion pieces and commentary, but reporting and historians cited in the available sources emphasize both par...
China is now the dominant buyer of Venezuelan oil, taking roughly 80% of exports in recent months (about 746,000 bpd in November) and absorbing large volumes of fuel oil and methanol as well (136,000 ...
A small clutch of firms — both local operators and foreign juniors — currently hold Greenland mining permits or run active projects, notably Amaroq Minerals (Nalunaq), Lumina Sustainable Materials (Wh...
U.S. sanctions have materially worsened Venezuela’s economic contraction and constrained imports of food, medicine and spare parts, but they did not originate the country’s crisis—years of mismanageme...
U.S. forces in Europe are funded through a mix of regular Department of Defense appropriations and targeted programs such as the European Deterrence Initiative (EDI), which had a FY2025 request of $2....
Available reporting documents multiple incidents in which U.S. service members were killed during President Joe Biden’s time in office, including 13 U.S. service members killed in the 2021 Afghanistan...
Public reporting about President Donald J. Trump in 2025 focuses on policy shifts — notably a new National Security Strategy, AI and intelligence reforms, and controversial military actions — rather t...
The United States has both indicted and sanctioned multiple high‑level Venezuelan officials on drug‑related charges: the Justice Department unsealed indictments charging Nicolás Maduro and 14 current ...
The United States ranks in the upper-middle tier on broad, multi-dimensional freedom measures but performs unevenly across different indices: it is tied 17th on the Human Freedom Index (out of ~165 ju...
is overwhelmingly Twelver Shia—most sources put Shias at roughly 90% of the Muslim population and Sunnis at roughly 5–10%—but that national figure masks stark regional clustering: Sunnis are concentra...
The reporting does not contain definitive, up‑to‑the‑minute line‑item operating budgets for individual major U.S. bases in Germany, Italy, or the United Kingdom, so a precise per‑base annual “operatin...
Kazakhstan formally announced it would accede to the Abraham Accords on November 6–7, 2025; prior to that the original 2020 signatories were the United Arab Emirates and Bahrain (September 15, 2020), ...
The EU imposed an effective bloc-wide ban on broadcasting RT and Sputnik in March 2022, prohibiting EU operators from “broadcasting, facilitating or otherwise contributing to the dissemination” of the...
China and Russia help Venezuela evade sanctions primarily by keeping markets open for Venezuelan oil and by enabling opaque shipping and financial channels that disguise transactions—through intermedi...
Argentina’s outstanding credit with the International Monetary Fund (IMF) is reported in multiple analyses as roughly in recent coverage; earlier public IMF-linked figures cite much smaller headline a...
Three credible escalation pathways could draw Russia and NATO into direct confrontation by 2026: inadvertent or “fog-of-war” incidents near NATO borders, deliberate Russian provocations or cross-borde...
Calls from some Republicans and many Democrats for President Trump to resign after the January 6, 2021 Capitol attack intensified the push for rapid congressional action — including a second impeachme...
The claim that "World War 3 is imminent in the near future against all major nations" is not supported by a consensus of intelligence assessments, expert surveys, or global indices; instead, recent an...
U.S. intelligence and congressional investigations concluded , a finding reaffirmed in later reviews and supported by ongoing evidence of similar Russian activity. Subsequent government actions and ne...
Three broad trigger families—rapid conventional attack on a member (most often framed as a ), that crosses Article 5 thresholds (cyber, sabotage, airspace shoot‑downs), and inadvertent escalation from...