The 10/7 War

📺 | Watch this episode on YouTube here. On February 24, 2022, Russian tanks and troops invaded Ukraine. Russian ruler Vladimir Putin expected a swift victory. Many Western observers did, too. After all, he had sliced two territories from Georgia in 2008 and seized Crimea and par ...  Show more

📺 | Watch this episode on YouTube here.America confronts a daunting geo-strategic landscape: The Axis of Aggressors — China, Russia, Iran, and North Korea — are cooperating across multiple domains in unprecedented ways.Putin continues his brutal, unprovoked invasion of Ukraine. ...  Show more

Jan. 15 marks 100 days since the Palestinian militant group Hamas attacked Israel, killing some 1,200 people. Israel then retaliated by launching a ground invasion of Gaza. More than 23,000 Palestinians have been killed, and numerous others face a dire humanitarian crisis.  After ...  Show more

Israel struck more than 500 targets in Gaza overnight after Hamas killed hundreds in Israel over the weekend. More than 1,000 people have died, making it the deadliest conflict in the region since the Yom Kippur War of 1973. NPR's Aya Batrawy joins us. And, Johns Hopkins Middle E ...  Show more

To much of the outside world, Hamas’s decision to murder hundreds of Israelis and trigger a war that has since killed many thousands of its own people looks like a historic miscalculation — one that could soon result in the destruction of Hamas itself.

Hamas’s leaders, h ...