By. Mason Scaggs DOI. 10.57912/31847965 In September of 2025, Ethiopian Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed Ali claimed that it was “only a matter of time" before Ethiopia regained coastal access and that a “mistake (was) made three decades ago” during the referendum that gave Eritrea independence. In response, Eritrea rebuked the statements, calling them “reckless saber-rattling”. Ethiopia’s persistent search for port access now threatens to bring the whole Horn of Africa under conf

By. Alec Hennessy DOI. 10.57912/31080130 On October 30th 2025, a spokesman for the Chinese crewed space mission reaffirmed China’s commitment to go to the Moon by 2030 , and confirmed that China remained on schedule for this ambitious goal. This new announcement was one of many that have recently come out of Beijing as it surges ahead in space exploration, both manned and unmanned. Since the start of the decade, China has installed a satellite network to challenge the Amer

By. Vladimir Kovtun DOI. 10.57912/31076173 Despite Iran’s long-lasting proxy wars with Israel, before this summer, both sides were deterred from conducting open warfare, measuring responses within crises to prevent escalation. By breaking this pattern in the Iran-Israel War, the U.S. and Israel have simultaneously removed Iran’s conventional deterrence and decreased its trust in negotiations. Iran’s inability to prevent Israel from gaining aerial supremacy or killing leadin