Opinion | David Petraeus: The race to make Putin’s aggression unaffordable KYIV — It’s getting colder in Ukraine, and the war is entering a crucial phase. Russia is expanding its production of missiles and new jet-powered drones and intensifying attacks on cities and infrastructure. Soon, it seems, Moscow will also mobilize additional manpower. That doesn’t mean Vladimir Putin is winning, but executing Ukraine’s own theory of victory will require a sober assessment of how the situation has changed in recent months. I just returned from six days in Ukraine, where I met with the commander of its unmanned systems forces, a principal architect of its air defenses, four corps commanders, and other senior government and military leaders. They’re as impressive as ever, and they aren’t despairing. Instead, they describe their extraordinary military as adapting while fighting a much larger enemy that is evolving faster than before. For much of the war, Ukraine’s advantage had been its abi...
Posts
Joshua Wong's Freedom Means More Than Cheap Chinese Cars September 15, 2026 at 1:00 PM GMT+10 Save Translate Takeaways by Bloomberg AI Joshua Wong became a global celebrity as a teenage protest leader in Hong Kong, appearing on the cover of Time magazine, serving as the subject of an award-winning documentary distributed by Netflix and being nominated multiple times for the Nobel Peace Prize. He will spend his 30th birthday in prison next month and faces many more years of incarceration after pleading guilty to a foreign collusion charge in a national security case on Sept. 2. These are lonely days for the city’s jailed activists. The democratic world has a duty not to forget them. Wong was imprisoned for his role in the city’s vast 2019 pro-democracy demonstrations, as well as his participation the following year in an unofficial primary election that authorities deemed subversive. The protests, which sometimes turned violent, prompted China to impose a national security law on H...
Skip to main content Advertisement View all journals Saved research Search Account Explore content About the journal Publish with us Subscribe Sign up for alerts RSS feed nature news article NEWS 13 September 2026 The super El Niño is already wreaking havoc: here’s what’s in store The extreme weather of this year’s mega El Niño could look different from past events. By James Dinneen Email Bluesky Facebook LinkedIn Reddit Whatsapp X Save article Credit: Bagus Kurniawan/NurPhoto via Getty The waters off the coast of Peru are normally one of the most productive fisheries in the world, each year producing millions of tonnes of anchovies to be used for fertilizer and animal feed. But in late August, the government cancelled the anchovy season early: the El Niño event gaining strength in the tropical Pacific Ocean has increased ocean temperatures and sent full-grown anchovies in search of food to d...