World View

Armies can be used against both foreigners abroad and citizens at home, but the two roles require quite different equipment and tactics.

The Iranian regime is brutal, fanatical and corrupt.

It is too early to be sure, but it seems likely that we have just seen "peak Trump".

In 1910, Henry Wilson, the British army officer charged with planning for a possible war with Germany, visited the French officer doing the same job in Paris, Ferdinand Foch.

After the Danish and Greenland foreign ministers came out of a meeting in Washington on January 14 convinced Donald Trump really intended to seize Greenland, things moved very fast.

The alarming events of the past couple of weeks have made it clear that not one but several crises are likely to occur in the relatively near future.

US President Donald Trump has ordered "a total and complete" blockade of all "sanctioned" oil tankers entering and leaving Venezuela ports, which is technically an act of war.

A few days ago the European Union’s Earth Observation programme, Copernicus, made a special announcement at the end of its monthly report on the state of the climate.

United States Secretary of State Marco Rubio said last week "if you’re on a boat full of cocaine or fentanyl or whatever, headed to the United States, you’re an immediate threat to the United States".

Israel's prime minister, Benjamin "Bibi" Netanyahu, has just asked the country’s president, Isaac Herzog, to "fully pardon" him of all three charges

Russia's "big concession is they stop fighting and they don’t take any more land", US President Donald Trump said on Wednesday

If the Ukrainians feel the time has come to surrender to the Russians, they don’t need Donald Trump’s help.

Russia has its endless war in Ukraine, Africa has the Sudanese civil war, the United States is on the brink of invading Venezuela

Populist parties are already in power in some developed countries and waiting just outside the door in many more.

The ceasefire in Gaza, however shaky, is freeing up some bandwidth for the world’s media to fret about other ongoing massacres

Made You Look is a children’s game where a child points to something that doesn’t exist just to get another child to look in that direction.

Q: Why do some Canadians want Trump to invade Venezuela?

It didn’t take long.

Javier Milei, the Elon Musk wannabe who became president of Argentina two years ago chainsaw in hand, is now in deep trouble with the voters, and the mid-term elections are due this month.