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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 ...
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...
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...
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. 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...
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 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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
U.S. sanctions designated PDVSA in January 2019 and have since expanded to target ships, shipping firms and regime insiders; OFAC actions and later license changes directly constrained PDVSA’s access ...
Past expert predictions that a third world war was imminent have a mixed record but lean heavily toward when judged against outcomes and timeframes: many high-profile forecasts either passed uneventfu...
Colombia’s recent tilt toward China—formalized through deeper strategic cooperation, trade growth, and moves toward the Belt and Road Initiative—poses a multifaceted challenge to U.S. interests becaus...