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Denied its involvement. hasan nasrallah did not come out and say there will be an increase of attacks by its heavily armed forces on israel, as many people had feared, in support of hamas, but the israeli military didn't want to talk too much about this but said its focus remained on fighting hamas. that seems to have allayed some concerns for now. it is so much for the us secretary of state antony blinken to address as he comes back to the region, we are not expecting him to arrive in israel for a couple more days but he will want to talk about the intensity of the fighting in the gaza strip ...

Often untold, Oppenheimer’s legacy of promoting tactical use of nuclear weapons resonates in today’s Ukraine.

That putin really had in his playbook. you know, they don't practice something like this. and they've never had to do it in their 20 years. i mean, putin, the most serious opposition he had in 2011 over what the people perceived to be a fraudulent election, which it was, and they were in the streets by the hundreds of thousands and that's why he organized this national guard group. those are the ones that you see in the black helmets all dressed in black masks, and beating the daylights out of civil protesters, but it's no match to vehicles coming into town. he's got to deploy and likely deplo...

Coming ukrainian offensive. essentially there are now nine armored brigades that ukraine has pulled out of combat, they've been reequipped with modern equipment, they've been trained and they're ready to go. probably you see an offensive sometimes and the russians are terrified of this. i don't know whether the ukrainians can pull this off but the russians are correct to be extremely concerned. will they see their combat forces unravel sometime this summer? the ukrainians have tremendous high morale, though they also economically have been devastated. the civilians have become the primary targ...

In iraq and afghanistan, they were utilized fairly regularly. here is why this is so different. the u.s. does not control the air space over ukraine. the u.s. does not have combat forces in ukraine. this is another country's war, another country's capital where the u.s. has limited to no military assets in the country itself. that's what a small team at the white house, the pentagon and the secret service were grappling with as they tried to put together this trip over intensive preparations that scaled a couple of months. it's worth noting, abby, the president made clear that he was itching t...