Older M60-A3 tanks are widely available defensive weapons, and should be sent to Ukraine. AFP via Getty Images It is no secret that Ukraine needs defensive NATO-standard armored vehicles. Speaking at ...
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5 Crystal Ball Predictions That Will Change U.S. Immigration In 2023
What lies in store for U.S. immigration in 2023? Here are five predictions. getty AI promises to reform U.S. immigration. Photo: Axel Heimken/dpa (Photo by Axel Heimken/picture … [+] alliance vi...
Zelenskyy, BlackRock CEO Fink agree to coordinate Ukraine investment
Volodymyr Zelenskiy, Ukraine’s president, meets with US President Joe Biden in the Oval Office of the White House in Washington, DC, US, on Wednesday, Dec. 21, 2022. Oliver Contreras | Bloomberg...
Russian Sausage Tycoon Dies By Suicide In Hotel Fall—Just The Latest Russian Elite (Including Putin Critics) To Die Mysteriously
Topline Russian sausage magnate Pavel Antov, a lawmaker who criticized the war on Ukraine this summer, mysteriously died at a hotel in India on Saturday while traveling for his birthday—becoming the l...
Russian Jamming Fails To Stop More Drone Attacks
Russia extended its attempts to jam satellite navigation systems after the drone attack on Engels Airbase on December 5th. Open-source data show a huge ‘bubble’ of jamming signals around Moscow and se...
Ukraine’s Artillery Did The Most Killing Around Kyiv, Ultimately Saving The City From Russian Occupation
A Ukrainian army 2S7 howitzer in action. Ukrainian army photo The Russian army’s plan, in the early hours of its wider invasion of Ukraine back in February, was to roll straight from Belarus and south...
Ukraine Converts $21.9 Billion In U.S. Military Surplus Into Fearsome Force
Few nations have put U.S. military aid to better use than Ukraine AFP via Getty Images The list of American security assistance to Ukraine since the beginning of Russia’s “unprovoked and brutal invasi...
Grading My 2022 Energy Predictions
Russian President Vladimir Putin chairs a meeting on the situation in the oil and gas sector at the … [+] Novo-Ogaryovo state residence outside Moscow, on April 14, 2022. – Putin called fo...
China’s Reopening Signals Return Of Bull Market
TOPSHOT – People sing slogans while gathering on a street in Shanghai on November 27, 2022, where … [+] protests against China’s zero-Covid policy took place the night before followi...
How Ukraine’s 1st Tank Brigade Fought A Russian Force Ten Times Its Size—And Won
The 1st Tank Brigade in training in 2021. Ukrainian army photo The 1st Tank Brigade, arguably Ukraine’s best tank formation, didn’t just survive the brutal bombardment that preceded Russia’s wider inv...
Putin Claims He’s Willing To Negotiate With Ukraine On War He Started—A Day After Deadly Russian Blasts In Kherson
Topline Russian President Vladimir Putin on Sunday claimed his country is prepared to negotiate on the war he inflicted with Ukraine and its Western allies, comments that Ukraine quickly pushed back a...
‘Knocking Down’ Ukraine’s Patriot Battery Would Give Russia A Much-Needed Propaganda Coup
Russian President Vladimir Putin has declared Russia will destroy the MIM-104 Patriot air defense missile system the United States is delivering to Ukraine. Striking the single most advanced system th...
Russia’s Electronic-Warfare Troops Knocked Out 90 Percent Of Ukraine’s Drones
A Russian army Pole-21 jamming system. Russian state media photo The Russian military’s failures in Russia’s wider war on Ukraine almost are too numerous to list. Too many attacks along too many secto...
Russia’s Best Missile Can Hit Ukrainian Jets From 80 Miles Away. But Ukrainian Pilots Know How To Dodge.
A Russian air force MiG-31. Wikimedia Commons Ukrainian air force pilots have worked out methods for dodging the Russian air force’s far-flying Vympel R-37M air-to-air missiles, according to one Ukrai...
The $1.1 billion Patriot Missile Battery the U.S. Is Sending to Ukraine is Symbolic but Not a Gamechanger
Members of the German Bundeswehr rush toward two Patriot missile launching systems during a press … [+] day presentation at the Luftwaffe Warbelow training center in 2012 in Warbelow, Germany. G...
How do Christmas traditions vary around the world? See the photos
For many, Christmas is a time of gift exchanges, log cakes and turkey dinners. But that’s not the case everywhere. In a yearly series, CNBC Travel highlights diverse Christmas celebrations aroun...
Bakhmut Is ‘Soaked In Blood’ As Eight Of Ukraine’s Best Brigades Battle 40,000 Former Russian Prisoners
Volodymyr Zelensky in Bakhmut. Office of the president of Ukraine Russian mercenary firm The Wagner Group since this summer has been trying, and so far failing, to capture the town of Bakhmut in easte...
Here’s What The Most Expensive Art Auctions Of 2022 Say About The Art Market (And The Economy)
Topline The year 2022 was record-breaking at the top levels of the art market in terms of valuable collections coming to market, expensive paintings and auction house sales, though some experts say sa...
What to make for Christmas dinner? It depends on where you live
People traveling abroad this Christmas may not find their favorite holiday food on the menu. That’s because traditional holiday fare varies around the world. To see who’s eating what this ...
Zelensky Thanks U.S. In Speech To Congress—But Calls For More Aid To Ukraine
Topline Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky said his country is “alive and kicking” despite Russia’s brutal 10-month-long invasion during a speech to Congress late Wednesday, using his first visit ...
The Russian Army Is Crowding Its Best Tanks In One Sector Of Eastern Ukraine
T-90. Vitaly V. Kuzmin photo via Wikimedia Commons Russian arms firm Uralvagonzavod has manufactured around 600 T-90 tanks for the Russian army. The 45-ton, three-person T-90 with its 125-millimter gu...
Russia’s High-Tech Suicide Squads
In the iconic 1987 movie The Running Man, convicted criminals enter a game show to win their freedom by running a gauntlet of armed opponents, watched by television cameras. A British Intelligence rep...
Russia’s Ukraine invasion led to Bitcoin’s highest sell-off in the past 2 years
The last two years have been very eventful for the crypto space. The industry witnessed astronomic crypto adoption, and Bitcoin (BTC) traded at an all-time high of over $69,000. However, despite this ...
Ukraine Is Fielding A ‘Heinz 57’ Fleet Of Heavy Drone Bombers Against Russian Forces
In the early days of the war, Ukraine’s small drone strike force could be easily divided into two types: improvised consumer DJI quadcopters armed with small Vog-17 or hand grenades, and R-18 octocopt...
Bolting Random Weapons On Random Chassis, the Ukrainian Army Proves Its Ingenuity … And Desperation
A Ukrainian MT-LB-12. Via social media A slightly odd-looking Ukrainian infantry fighting vehicle, churning through the cold mud that’s typical of Ukraine’s early winters, tells a profound story. One ...
Ukraine May Finally Get Greece’s Russian S-300 Missiles
Greece has reportedly expressed its willingness to transfer its Russian-built long-range S-300 air defense missile systems to Ukraine if the United States replaces them with a MIM-104 Patriot. “...
Russia Has More Artillery Than Ukraine. But Russian Gunners Have A Bad Habit Of Shelling … Nothing.
A Ukrainian army 2S7 howitzer in action. Ukrainian defense ministry photo Despite a deluge of Western support for Ukraine over the 10 months of Russia’s wider war on Ukraine, the Russian army still ha...
UN To Use Stellar (XLM) Network and USDC to Stabilize Ukraine Refugees
Russia sent a cluster of missiles on Ukrainian cities yesterday. The UN will use the Stellar Network to help Ukraine. Ukraine has received a lot of donations in crypto assets. USDC To Help in Ukraine’...
Ukraine’s Super-Upgraded M-55S Tanks Have Equipped A New Kind Of Brigade
Valery Markus and M-55Ss. Valery Markus photo We finally know which Ukrainian army unit took ownership of those super-upgraded, but very old, M-55S tanks that Slovenia donated to Ukraine. It’s the 47t...