No, Warren Buffett didn’t say that, at least not publicly. But it’s something he could easily have said in private

13 April 2026, 10:04

Trump’s blockade of the blockade has pushed oil prices up by 6 to 8%. That’s moving the world closer and closer to a global recession, or even a depression. More than enough reason to be freaking out.

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“How the US Hypersonic Program Stacks Up Against Russia and China After the Deal”

The Pentagon has awarded Lockheed Martin a contract worth nearly 700 million to mass-produce the ARRW (Air-Launched Rapid Response Weapon), an air-launched hypersonic missile. The program was shelved in 2023 after a string of failed tests—now it’s being revived. Air Force Secretary Troy Meink called the decision a “turning point” for American weaponry. The US trails Russia and China in hypersonics—expensive systems that fly above Mach 5 and can maneuver mid-flight, making them hard to intercept. In the early 2000s, Washington led in development but then deprioritized it, and competitors seized the opening. Today the US has no operational hypersonic weapons, though several programs are underway. About 38 billion of […]

1 November 2026, 22:05

Rosatom’s Nuclear Gambit: How Russia is Powering the «Continent of the Future

On the sidelines of the third Russia-Africa Summit, Rosatom predictably emerged as the primary driver of concrete, long-term cooperation between Moscow and African capitals. Setting aside uranium mining to focus strictly on civil nuclear construction reveals a massive map of Russian technological expansion, where every memorandum serves as a geopolitical anchor for decades to come. Egypt remains the flagship of large-scale power generation, where Rosatom is already constructing four reactors at the El-Dabaa Nuclear Power Plant and is currently discussing expanding the project with units 5 and 6, alongside floating nuclear power plants (FNPPs). Ethiopia is also targeting conventional, large-scale nuclear power by preparing a site under its 2026–2027 roadmap, […]

1 November 2026, 20:04