Russian Offensive Campaign Assessment, January 22, 2026

Russia is filling its ranks with foreign fighters and treating them as ‘disposable soldiers’

Military Buildup In The Middle East Continues, Including What Trump Describes As A “Big Flotilla”

As a reminder, this a Chinse English language mouthpiece. Read it it with that understanding. Is Trump About to “Abandon” Taiwan, Too?

China is beating the United States in the race to control the Gulf’s driverless car market. The latest win came in October 2025 when Chinese company WeRide secured an exclusive deal with Ras Al Khaimah, the northernmost of the United Arab Emirates, to build its entire transport system around driverless cars. The sleepy emirate — preparing to become the Gulf’s Las Vegas — is betting on Chinese technology instead of traditional metros and buses.

Shadow Fleet Tanker Seizure Operations Expand In The Face Of Russian Warnings

In Upstate New York, for example, thousands of solar panels are covered in ice, snow, and sleet during winter, only generating five to 10% of their potential power. In the summer, they fare slightly better. They produce an annual average of 15-17% of total power. As the House of Green Substack explains, they survive and continue to be built in New York due to the state’s Renewable Energy Certificates, where the state pays developers for each megawatt hour of renewable electricity generated, independent of the actual sale of the electricity. The solar developer earns two to three times more from the certificate than from selling the power generated from the solar facility.

Russian Offensive Campaign Assessment, January 21, 2026

Trump Considers “Decisive” Options Against Iran as U.S. Aircraft Carrier, Fighter Jets Head to Middle East

Flesh-eating flies are eating their way through Mexico, CDC warns. “The screwworm is dangerously close,” Miller said at the time. “It nearly wiped out our cattle industry before; we need to act forcefully now.”

Japanese Yields Soar To All Time High After PM Takaichi Calls Snap Election Seeking More Spending, Less Taxes

Trump Now Says He Won’t Use Force To Acquire Greenland

U.S. Geological Survey Report Shows Massive Untapped Oil, Gas Reserves in Texas

Up to 25 percent of U.S. colleges may close soon

Russian Offensive Campaign Assessment, January 20, 2026

U.S. Military Buildup In The Middle East Grinds On

Japan’s 40-year yield hits 4% as Takaichi’s tax plan sinks bonds

If markets have not been watching Japan, now is the moment. The relentless surge in long-dated JGB yields signals that one of the world’s most reliable liquidity backstops is fading, with consequences that extend well beyond Tokyo.

Put differently, there were fewer births in China in 2025 than in 1776, the year the United States declared independence.

Women on both the Left and the Right were 14% to 20% more likely than men to believe the political assassination of high-profile figures could be justified

Scientists Discover the Body’s Natural “Off Switch” for Inflammation

Russian Offensive Campaign Assessment, January 19, 2026

How Russia’s winter attack campaign threatens to fracture Ukraine’s power grid

Record snowfall in Russia’s Far East has paralyzed the city of Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky. Snow cover in the city has reached 170 centimeters (5 feet 7 inches), with some neighborhoods buried under more than 2.5 meters (over 8 feet). On social media, residents have reported snowbanks as high as five meters (about 16 and a half feet).

Kataib Hezbollah threatens US bases in the Middle East if US strikes Iran

Qatari, Turkish presence on Trump’s Gaza board could push Israel toward major reserve call-ups

How the Clothes-Hanger Wars Escalated in Italy

Russian Offensive Campaign Assessment, January 18, 2026

‘New level of brutality’: Iran doctors put death toll in suppressed uprising at over 16,500

By asking Trump to delay Iran attacks, Netanyahu exposes Israel’s air defense holes. The IDF sent out more than half a dozen messages about how ready it was and how strong its air defense capabilities are, only for Netanyahu to privately express the opposite opinion to Trump.

Not so clear from this article, but the Syrians cleaned the clock of the Kurds. The new leader of Syria is taking care of all the family’s business to borrow a quote from the Godfather movies. Syrian state media reported that Damascus and the US-backed Syrian Democratic Forces reached an immediate ceasefire after days of clashes in Kurdish-held areas of the northeast.

Rape Ensues After Dutch Students Forced To Live With 125 Refugees In Woke ‘Integration’ Experiment

Violent Left Wing Mobs In Minneapolis Hunt For ICE And Attack Counter Protesters

As fighting continues in Pokrovsk and Kupyansk, Russia bears down on Ukraine’s main remaining Donbas strongholds.

Iran Taunts Trump, Promises More Intense Crackdown. “Trump always talks a lot of nonsense,” top Tehran prosecutor says; the regime won’t halt executions.

‘Staring over the edge’: South Carolina measles outbreak doubles in a week. More than 500 people are in a 21-day quarantine and about 200 are “actively infected.” The largest outbreak currently in the U.S. has spread to at least three other states.

Russian Offensive Campaign Assessment, January 16, 2026

Signs Emerge Of U.S. Navy, Air Force Push To Middle East

An estimated 15,000 protesters have been killed, and tens of thousands have been rounded up as the regime seeks to quell the largest uprising in years. “Around 20,000 protesters have been arrested in Iran since unrest began in late December

Security officials in Iran are carefully weighing their options on how to dole out violence to preserve an authoritarian system. It is an existential moment for any authoritarian regime, and one that Chinese leader Xi Jinping must be watching closely. He strongly believes the People’s Liberation Army must be prepared to defeat any enemies within the elite, among the Chinese population, or overseas. Given the military’s fundamental role in the designs of one of the world’s most powerful men, outside observers have watched carefully as rolling purges continue to hit high-ranking officers. Suddenly and unexpectedly, a few weeks ago a six-hour recording of the closed trial of Chinese general Xu Qinxian was published online. Xu was commander of the elite 38th Group Army in the early days of the Tiananmen Square protests in 1989 before he was removed for wavering when ordered to enforce martial law.

A generally healthy 63-year-old man in the New England area went to the hospital with a fever, cough, and vision problems in his right eye. His doctors eventually determined that a dreaded hypervirulent bacteria—which is rising globally—was ravaging several of his organs, including his brain.

The Clock Is Ticking for Glyphosate

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According to The New York Times, “Some Black and Latino leaders worry they are being denied access to power under Mayor Zohran Mamdani. … It has become a problem.”

Russian Offensive Campaign Assessment, January 15, 2026

Oleksandr Kharchenko, director of Ukraine’s Energy Research Center, echoed the mayor, calling the energy situation in Kyiv unprecedented. “There has never been an attack anywhere in the world that destroys a city’s central heating system while it’s –15 degrees Celsius [five degrees Fahrenheit],” he said.

Qatar, Saudi Arabia lead efforts to influence Trump against US strike in Iran, sources tell ‘Post’

4.2-magnitude earthquake recorded in southern Israel; no reports of injuries

Did Iran’s Currency Collapse? Rial Plummets to “0.00” Against Euro While Inflation & Protests Escalate Across the Country

An Eyewitness Look at Venezuela After the Capture of Maduro

Colorado Democrats Introduce Bill to Strip Parents of Rights on the Transing of Kids

Age of Invention: Tudor Trade War

Russian Offensive Campaign Assessment, January 14, 2026

Zelensky declares state of emergency in Ukraine’s energy sector amid efforts to repair widespread damage from Russian strikes

Trump Claims Iran Has Stopped Killing Protestors

U.S. Tells Citizens to ‘Leave Iran Now’ as 15,000 Protesters Feared Killed in Regime Crackdown

China Floods the Global Auto Market with Gasoline Vehicles

Verizon resolves network outage issue that affected hundreds of thousands

Trump Tells Protesters “Help Is On Its Way,” Cuts Off Negotiations With Regime

Starlink tries to stay online in Iran as regime jams signals during protests

Poland is on track to surpass Japan in real GDP per capita (PPP).

R.I.P. – Dilbert Creator and Early Trump Supporter Scott Adams Passes Away at 68

Reg E is not uniformly loved in the financial industry. In particular, there has been a concerted effort by banks to renegotiate the terms of it with respect to Zelle in particular. This is principally because Zelle has been anomalously expensive, as Reg E embeds a strong, intentionally bank-funded anti-fraud regime, but Zelle does not monetize sufficiently to pay for it. And thus a history lesson, a primer, and an explanation of a live public policy controversy.

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