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Elon Musk’s Stern Warning After Pentagon Leak—What Happened and Why It Matters

Elon Musk is no stranger to controversy, but his recent threat toward Pentagon employees over a leaked meeting about a potential U.S.-China war has sparked intense debate. The Tesla and SpaceX CEO warned that those responsible for the leak "will be found," raising questions about national security, corporate influence in defense, and Musk’s own role in geopolitics. What Was Leaked? According to reports, details from a high-level Pentagon meeting discussing U.S. military preparedness in a potential conflict with China were leaked. While the exact contents remain unclear, the breach was serious enough to draw Musk’s ire, given his companies' deep ties to U.S. defense contracts (SpaceX’s Starlink, for example, is used by the military). Musk’s Strong Reaction Musk took to social media (likely X, formerly Twitter) to declare that the leakers "will be found," suggesting he views the breach as a major […]

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Trump Has a Lot to Offer, Even Without a Ukraine Deal

President Trump says he is focused on stopping the “death march” in Ukraine “as soon as possible.” But for President Vladimir V. Putin of Russia, cease-fire talks with Mr. Trump are a means to much broader ends. Russian and American officials met in Saudi Arabia on Monday to deepen their negotiations about technical details of a partial cease-fire to halt attacks on energy facilities and on ships in the Black Sea. While Ukraine says it’s ready for a full truce, Mr. Putin has made it clear that he will seek a wide range of concessions first. The upshot: The Kremlin appears determined to squeeze as many benefits as possible from Mr. Trump’s desire for a Ukraine peace deal, even as it slow-walks the negotiations. Viewed from Moscow, better ties with Washington are an economic and geopolitical boon — one that may be […]

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Plan to Return Russian Diplomats to U.S. Poses Espionage Risk

As it moves to transform U.S. relations with Russia, the Trump administration is talking with Moscow about readmitting potentially scores of Russian diplomats into the United States after years of expulsions. But the good-will gesture, which would be reciprocated by Moscow, could be a kind of Trojan horse, experts and diplomats warn, as the Kremlin is likely to dispatch spies posing as diplomats to restore its diminished espionage capabilities within the United States. U.S. and Russian officials met in Istanbul last month to discuss returning more diplomats to each other’s countries after years of tit-for-tat expulsions and the shuttering of diplomatic facilities. The midlevel talks, part of a rapid rapprochement between the Kremlin and the White House under President Trump, took place at the U.S. consul’s residence. Days earlier in Riyadh, a U.S. delegation headed by Secretary of State Marco Rubio […]

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