America’s bid for global AI dominance is colliding with an old political reality: every technological revolution eventually raises the same question—who foots the bill? The reckoning will come in the hearing rooms of state utility commissions, where regulators will decide who pays for the enormous power infrastructure required.
Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) provided Qatar with direct guarantees that any Iranian military strike carried out on Qatari territory would be limited to Al Udeid Air Base, according to sources familiar with the matter who spoke to Eagle Intelligence Reports.
The Lebanese Army is expressing reservations over any direct coordination with Israeli forces, while Berri and the Islamic Group move to restrict the implementation track of the U.S.-backed agreement and prevent its domestic repercussions.
As Washington continues military operations against Iran, the debate over the campaign is shifting from the scale of the damage inflicted to the question of what would follow if the Islamic Republic’s ruling structure were to collapse.
For almost 80 years, the United States has run the most successful alliance in modern history at a bargain price. This week, in Ankara, it may begin to give that bargain away. When defense ministers gathered in Brussels last month, the American secretary of war set out the terms.
A decade ago, an international court ruled unambiguously in favor of the Philippines and against China’s claims in the South China Sea. Although the arbitration no longer constrains China, it remains strategically important as the legal foundation through which states legitimize and coordinate balancing against Beijing.
Eurasia is absorbing a series of strategic shocks. Russia is mired in its war in Ukraine. Israel and the United States have fought a war with Iran. A decades-long Armenia–Azerbaijan conflict has ended, and a new confrontation between Afghanistan and Pakistan looms.
Several Spanish entities are working to build a judicial pathway toward a criminal investigation of Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez, sources familiar with the effort told Eagle Intelligence Reports. The effort centers on Sánchez’s role in the Spanish government’s 2021 $61 million rescue of Plus Ultra Líneas Aéreas.
Europe cherishes freedom and the rule of law, Emmanuel Macron told the French armed forces on Monday. It stands ready to fight for both “at the cost of blood.” For seven decades, that was the standard script in American foreign policy. Under Trump, that may be changing.
Two hundred days after the establishment of the Gaza Board of Peace, the initiative has produced diplomatic movement but limited progress on the ground.
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