Following Putin’s invasion of Ukraine, food prices have shot up around the world. Cindy McCain, the U.S. ambassador to the United Nations Agencies for Food and Agriculture, referred to the disaster as “the worst humanitarian crisis since World War II.” Straight Arrow News contributor Peter Zeihan agrees with McCain’s assessment that some countries in Africa…

Sen. Richard Blumenthal, D-Conn., believes it is possible for Ukraine to retake Crimea. Blumenthal just returned from his third trip to the country, a bipartisan delegation that included Sens. Lindsey Graham, R-S.C., and Sheldon Whitehouse, D-R.I. “Everything I have come to learn about the will and determination of the Ukrainians leads me to conclude, retaking…

The Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists moved its Doomsday Clock from 100 seconds to midnight to 90 seconds to midnight Tuesday. According to the bulletin, 90 seconds is “the closest to global catastrophe” the Doomsday Clock has ever been. Areas of concern that led to the moving of the clock include: The threat of nuclear…

The FBI has another black eye. Over the weekend, former agent Charles McGonigal was arrested at JFK airport in New York while returning from a trip to the Middle East. Federal prosecutors said McGonigal, the former head of counterintelligence for the FBI’s New York field office, laundered money for a sanctioned Russian oligarch. Not only…

The Leopards are coming. After months of saying “no,” Germany indicated over the weekend it would not stand in the way of Poland sending its Leopard 2 tanks to Ukraine. It’s a definite shift in policy. Up until now, both Germany and the United States were steadfast in their denial to send Ukraine main battle…

Ukraine needs modern tanks. Great Britain and France are sending some, but so far the U.S. and Germany have balked at the idea. Almost since the start of the war, the Ukrainians have been pleading with the West for tanks to help fight off the Russian invasion. Ukraine had some Soviet-era T-72s when the war…

As the Russia-Ukraine War reaches its one-year mark, the United States is feeling the strain. Supplies are running low and the Pentagon is now tapping into a little-known stockpile of American ammunition in Israel to meet Ukraine’s need for artillery shells in the war. This stockpile, located on Israeli soil, is typically used to provide…

According to an exclusive report from Reuters, Energy Secretary Jennifer Granholm wrote a letter to a House committee warning about the effects an oil bill could have on gas prices if passed. The Strategic Production Response Act, introduced earlier this month by Rep. Cathy McMorris Rodgers, R-Wash., would limit presidential authority in releasing oil from…

Russia is one step closer to arming the world’s largest submarine with the world’s deadliest torpedoes. At least according to Russian state media it is. This week, Russia’s Tass News Agency reported the country completed the first batch of Poseidon nuclear-capable torpedoes for its Belgorod nuclear-powered submarine. Launched in 2019, the Russian navy’s Belgorod is…

A renewed Russian offensive is putting greater pressure on Germany to supply Ukraine with its heavy battle tanks. So far, Berlin has resisted sending its Leopard 2 tanks amid concerns such a move will more directly involve them in the war. The recent resignation of Germany’s Defence Minster, Christine Lambrecht, might signal a policy reversal…