Really putting Ukraine's Abrams and F-16s to work fighting Russia means most probably won't survive, but that's the kind of war this is

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Three people stand beside an F-16 on a runway in front of trees and half under some material
An F-16 after it first arrived in Ukraine in August 2024.

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Putin's expanded BRICS summit proves he has friends — but risks buckling under its own contradictions

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Russian President Vladimir Putin clapping his hands.
Russian President Vladimir Putin during the BRICS Business Forum in Moscow on Friday.

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US Navy aviators killed in stateside Growler fighter jet crash flew combat strike missions off a carrier in the Red Sea fight

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An aircraft takes off from the flight deck of a ship at sea.
An E/A-18G Growler aircraft, attached to Electronic Attack Squadron 130, takes off from the Nimitz-class aircraft carrier USS Dwight D. Eisenhower in the Red Sea.

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A US F-35 stealth fighter just landed on a destroyer Japan turned into an aircraft carrier for the first time off the California coast

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An F-35 stealth fighter jet sits on the tarmac of an aircraft carrier with a flight operator standing in the distance.
The US and Japan are working together on integrating F-35B short-takeoff/vertical landing variants on Japan's new aircraft carrier.

Cmdr. Darin Russell

The US can 'ill afford' another war now its rivals are teaming up so well, US general says

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Taiwan's military fires a gun at targets in the sea
A US-made TOW-2A wire-guided anti-tank missile is launched by Taiwanese soldiers during a live fire exercise in August, 2024

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Ukraine is making a new drone called Sting that flies faster than 100 mph to kill Russia's Iranian Shahed drones: report

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A Shahed-136 drone flies in the sky.
Shahed-136 drones are designed by Iran, but Russia has been domestically producing them under a weapons deal with Tehran.

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US offers $10 million for intel on Russian military media outlet Rybar amid election interference allegations

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Rybar has more than 1.3 million Telegram subscribers.

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The West is trying to starve the wrong part of Russia's war machine, defense experts say

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Russian artillery fires at Ukrainian positions in the Artemovsk direction in late March.
Defense experts argue the West should sanction key materials and components needed for Russian artillery.

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How an F-22 fighter pilot transforms the stealth jet's combat capabilities into a soaring spectacle

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US Air Force Capt. Samuel "RaZZ" Larson, F-22 Raptor Demonstration Team commander, shakes hands with a senior airman before taxiing.

US Air Force photo by Airman 1st Class Mikaela Smith

America is entering a new 'economic supercycle'

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No one's going to sound an alarm, blast out a text message, or shoot you an email about it, but the US economy is undergoing a historic shift. We are leaving one long period of expansion — what economists refer to as a "supercycle" — and entering a very different one.

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