By Tom Nagorski SUBSCRIBER+EXCLUSIVE REPORTING — Yulia Navalnaya had come to the Munich Security Conference to urge the gathering of world leaders to think of her husband in their high-level meetings. Then came word that the jailed Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny – was dead. She said that for a moment, she considered leaving, “But […]
Category: The Cipher Brief
By Suzanne Kelly SUBSCRIBER+EXCLUSIVE INTERVIEW – U.S. President Joe Biden is blaming Iran for a drone strike in Jordan that killed three U.S. service members and wounded dozens more over the weekend. The news comes on the heels of an exclusive Subscriber+ interview with former CENTCOM Commander General Frank McKenzie (Ret.) who, in a briefing […]
By Suzanne Kelly OPINION — Many analysts of global affairs play fast and loose with the term “game changer.” My somewhat curmudgeonly analysis of events like UAE-Israel normalization or the assassination of Iran’s Quds Force Chief Qassem Soleimani argued that the strategic environment, from Israel’s perspective at least, would remain largely unchanged after those events. […]