Daily Archives: Jul 2, 2026

How long can a handshake between two rival superpowers last? In Busan, South Korea, the answer was precisely one hour and forty minutes. That was all it took for U.S. President Donald Trump and Chinese President Xi Jinping to declare a one-year pause in a trade war that has...

What happens when nuclear brinkmanship meets an active warzone? A flurry of announcements and battlefield escalations in late October 2025 pushed the United States, Russia, and their allies closer to a dangerous threshold. President Donald Trump's directive to resume U.S. nuclear weapons testing after a 33-year hiatus was answered...

Will a direct collision with Russia befall NATO's eastern flank? Events at the end of October 2025 brought that question into sharp focus, with Poland and other allied forces scrambling jets in response to one of the biggest barrages of Russian missiles and drones since the start of the...