October, 2025

• 9 October

  A Snapback Solution for Ukraine: How to Craft Security Guarantees That Kyiv—and Moscow—Will Find Credible

  

  In their discussions about ending the war in Ukraine, Americans and Europeans are increasingly focused on providing Kyiv with security guarantees. After over a decade of conflict with Russia, including four years of all-out war, Ukraine understandably does not trust Moscow to abide by any cease-fire. Before Kyiv signs one, …

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• 9 October

  A Defining Choice for Israel

  

  After Two Years of Growing Isolation and Endless War, an Alternative Future Is Possible Two years after the worst attack on Israel in its history, the country stands at a crossroads. Israel is not a failed state. It is a great state with a failed government. Its foundations remain strong. …

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• 9 October

  US Patriot Missiles Face Growing Problems as Russia Changes Tactics

  

  It is now “harder” for Ukraine’s Patriot air defenses to intercept incoming Russian ballistic missiles, a Ukrainian military spokesperson has said. “It is more difficult to counter missiles flying on a quasi-ballistic trajectory,” Yuriy Ignat, a spokesperson for Kyiv’s air force, told the country’s national rolling news on Sunday. A …

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• 9 October

  A high-stakes gamble

  

  Like our earlier reports on the combat situation in Ukraine, this article takes stock of the recent developments on the battlefield based on open-source information. Meduza has condemned Russia’s invasion of Ukraine from the very start, and our detailed military analyses are part of our commitment to objective reporting on …

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• 9 October

  To preserve ‘Rising Lion’s’ achievements, Israel must support an Iran nuclear deal

  

  With the end of June’s Twelve-Day War between Iran, Israel, and the United States, the Israeli leadership began to celebrate the achievements of the war, and the “victory” it claimed over Tehran. Senior Israeli security officials claimed that Iran was no longer a nuclear threshold state, that it could not …

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• 9 October

  UK aerospace firm supplying Israel’s defence ministry

  

  Exclusive: Moog in Wolverhampton was targeted by pro-Palestine activists in August. We can now reveal the company has been exporting aircraft components to Israel’s ministry of defence. On 26 August, four activists from the group ‘Palestinian Martyrs for Justice’ crashed through the gates of a factory in Wolverhampton and climbed …

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• 6 October

  Five Key Considerations on Terrorism and Political Violence

  

  Abstract The evolving threat of terrorism and political violence in the United States cannot be understood without observing technological change, institutional memory, and societal resilience. Recent discussions underscore five urgent considerations: (1) sustaining lessons from two decades of counterterrorism, (2) preparing for AI and drone-enabled battlefields, (3) confronting the misuse …

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• 6 October

  Budget of mass destruction: VAT hike reflects course for long war and protracted decline

  

  Russia’s federal budget is changing on the fly—it’s still unclear what the final deficit for 2025 will be. However, the Ministry of Finance has already included a candid comment in its draft budget for next year that tax increases will be used for military spending. The essence of the decision …

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• 6 October

  A Renewed Iranian Push for the Nuclear Bomb

  

  The Iranian regime is once again racing to acquire nuclear weapons. In doing so, it is turning to Russia and almost certainly looking toward China and North Korea for support. This is an immediate and existential threat to the United States, Israel, and the Free World. Tehran’s repeated denials are …

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• 6 October

  L’Occident étouffe la dissidence pour préparer les citoyens à la guerre

  

  La situation actuelle a généré les prémisses dramatiques visant à diffuser une culture de guerre, alimentée par des peurs savamment et artificiellement construites, en inventant des ennemis là où il n’y en a pas. À notre époque, marquée par des oppositions souvent plus verbales et verbeuses que substantielles, mais toujours …

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