Use of force, military operations, and armed conflict
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⚡ FAST READ1 min read With North Korea's new long-range missile overflying the Japanese archipelago, calls for strengthening Japan's defense capabilities have rapidly accelerated, bringing the entire East Asian military balance to a structural turning point. This situation is not merely a missile test; it is the
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⚡ FAST READ1 min read Estimates that North Korea is earning over 2 trillion yen from dispatching troops and exporting weapons to Russia mean that the UN sanctions regime is effectively collapsing. The war in Ukraine is becoming the largest source of funding for North Korea's nuclear and missile
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⚡ FAST READ1 min read Estimates that North Korea is earning over 2 trillion yen from troop deployment and weapon exports to Russia are shaking the very foundation of the UN sanctions regime. With "frontal breakthroughs" rather than "loopholes" becoming the norm, the security order in East
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⚡ FAST READ1 min read The US-Iran military conflict following the assassination of Supreme Leader Khamenei has presented the Japanese economy, which relies 90% on Middle Eastern oil, with a double whammy of "economic cooling × price increases." The Bank of Japan's carefully advanced interest rate normalization scenario
Energy
⚡ FAST READ1-min read The first direct US naval strike on an Iranian military vessel since 1988 has activated an escalation spiral that neither Washington nor Tehran can exit without losing face — and the 21% of global oil that transits the Strait of Hormuz is now a hostage in a game
Energy
⚡ FAST READ1-min read The U.S. is deploying its development finance agency as a wartime insurance backstop for global oil shipping, revealing that the Iran conflict's biggest risk isn't military — it's the potential collapse of maritime insurance markets that could choke global energy supply.
Governance & Law
⚡ FAST READ1-min read The collision between U.S. military strikes on Iran and a domestic spending fight over immigration enforcement reveals a deepening structural paralysis: even national security crises can no longer break the partisan gridlock that has made government funding a perpetual hostage negotiation. ── 3 Key Points ───────── * • House Minority
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⚡ FAST READ1-min read A US submarine sank the Iranian frigate IRIS Dena on March 4, 2026, killing an estimated 150 sailors — the first direct sinking of a sovereign nation's warship by the US Navy since World War II. This event crystallizes how a 47-year escalation spiral between Washington
Governance & Law
⚡ FAST READ1-min read The House vote on an Iran war powers resolution is the most significant congressional test of executive military authority since the 2020 Soleimani crisis, and its likely failure will cement a decades-long pattern of legislative surrender on war-making power. ── 3 Key Points ───────── * • The House is expected to
Governance & Law
⚡ FAST READ1-min read The House vote on an Iran war powers resolution is the most significant congressional challenge to presidential military authority since the 2020 Soleimani crisis, and its likely failure will cement a decades-long structural shift: Congress has effectively ceded its constitutional war-making power to the executive branch, making
Governance & Law
⚡ FAST READ1-min read The House vote on a war powers resolution to curb U.S. military action against Iran is the most consequential congressional challenge to presidential war authority since the 2020 Soleimani crisis, testing whether the legislative branch can reclaim its constitutional power to authorize war in an era