World.
With context.
Geopolitics, conflicts, trade, and alliances. The wars, the deals, and the crises that shape where America stands abroad. Sourced. Dated. Named.
Currently tracking: the U.S.–Israel war on Iran (Day 59), the Strait of Hormuz crisis, and the Iraq cash-block pressure campaign.
Iran offers to reopen Hormuz. Trump squeezes Iraq's cash. Same day.
Tehran (via Pakistan) offers to reopen the Strait of Hormuz IF the U.S. lifts its naval blockade — but makes ZERO nuclear concessions. Same morning: U.S. Treasury blocks a $500M cash shipment to Iraq's central bank to squeeze Iran-backed militias. Trump: "We have all the cards."
Iran's military collapse — the strikes, the losses, the chain of command.
What the Iranian armed forces lost when the U.S.-Israel coalition went in on February 28, 2026: command nodes, leadership, air defenses, missile inventory. The order of battle, mapped to the strike record.
What the Iran war is costing — high, low, and most-likely scenarios.
Day-by-day munitions burn rate, carrier deployment costs, allied support spend. The price tag of the U.S.-Israel coalition operation against Iran modeled across high / low / most-likely ranges from public DoD and CRS data.
Oil tanker flows through the Strait of Hormuz.
Live data dashboard tracking crude tanker movements through the Strait of Hormuz — by source country, destination, volume, and carrier. The 20% of world oil that moves through one chokepoint, visualized.
Every claim on this desk traces to a primary source: Pentagon / CENTCOM / IDF official strike records, Department of State releases, wire-service reporting (AP, Reuters, Bloomberg), or court / agency filings. Wikipedia is used for chronological context, never as the primary source for a load-bearing fact. Foreign-language outlets (Al Jazeera, France 24, The National) are cross-checked against domestic equivalents before publication. We name officials, name dates, and link the document.