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Russian Offensive Campaign Assessment, May 22, 2026

Iran Now Trying To Cement Long-Term Control Over Strait Via Fees. Iran’s move to impose service fees on ships transiting the Strait comes as Pakistani and Qatari negotiators are in Tehran trying to get a deal to officially end the war.

New EIA Report Shows Extent of Hormuz Oil Disruptions

Chinese Refining Rates Unexpectedly Plunge To All-Time Lows As Economy Falls Off A Cliff

Ebola outbreak now third largest recorded and “spreading rapidly”

Fears as Ebola cases reported in rebel-held area hundred of kilometres from epicentre. If confirmed, these cases would signal a worrying expansion of an outbreak that experts believe circulated for around two months in Ituri province – several hundred kilometres to the north – before being detected last week.

Rising Interest Rates are Exploding the Debt. The 30-year Treasury note just reached its highest yield in almost 19 years, 5.2%, and other interest rates are approaching similar highs.

Rescuers free man trapped for six hours in Upstate New York cave

New York Passes Sanctuary State Bill, Blocks Police From Cooperating With ICE

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Russian Offensive Campaign Assessment, May 19, 2026

Iran demands Big Tech pay fees for undersea Internet cables in Strait of Hormuz

Demographic Winter Pushes South Korea To Field War Robots As Troop Pool Shrinks

Japanese Bonds Crater After PM Takaichi Prepares To Issue Much More Debt To Pay For Gasoline Subsidies

The last major republican who could be considered a fiscal conservative and somewhat independent of Trump. There are other republicans still left who opposed Trump even more then Massie but they are straight up RINOs who are not fiscal conservative. Kentucky Rep. Thomas Massie Loses Primary to Trump-Backed Challenger

Hunting Mosquitoes With a Blunderbuss

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Russian Offensive Campaign Assessment, May 17, 2026

Israel Operated a Second Military Base in Iraq During Strikes on Iran

Analysts and industry leaders warn that strategic reserves are being depleted faster than expected, meaning the crisis could evolve from a crude shortage into a full-blown global fuel and refining crisis if Hormuz does not reopen soon.

U.S. eyes attack-drone threat from Cuba

Brent Breaks $111 as Oil Markets Brace for Shortages

Scientists Say They’ve Invented a Serum That Activates a Dormant Ability to Regrow Lost Limbs in Mammals

Only people sillier then those who worship AI are those who hate AI beyond all reason. Someone Shared a Real Monet Painting as AI and Asked for Critiques

Northern California county declares mountain lions ‘imminent threat’. State legislators are considering a bill that would lift the current penalties for killing endangered animals – such as gray wolves – in self-defense.

Moscow Wasn’t Ready for This Attack

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This problem has been a long time in coming. I wrote this two years ago.. Russia’s Strategic Vulnerability To Long Range Precision Fires. And I wrote this around the the same time The One New Aspect Of Warfare That The War In Ukraine Has Revealed. As the war in Iran and other conflicts elsewhere is starting to show, this is the new future of warfare. Russia is the first major power to experience this problem but I doubt they will be the last.

This is more strategic and more long term look at the topic.

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Russian Offensive Campaign Assessment, May 16, 2026

The Coolest Video Ever Shot on Everest

Trump discloses stock market investments that fuel concerns about conflict of interest

Explosive Device Found in Important Alabama Water Reservoir is Safely Detonated. More investigation is clearly needed to determine if the “grenade” was someone’s attempt at easy fishing gone awry or something more sinister such as an attempted sabotage.

Pancreatic cancer just met its match