Analysis by WorldTribune Staff, June 8, 2026 Non-AI Real World News If China’s state news agency Xinhua is to be believed, and it should not, President Xi Jinping’s visit to resource-rich North Korea on June 8, 2026, is a much bigger event than the recent state visits to Beijing by U.S. President Donald Trump and […]
Special to WorldTribune.com By John J. Metzler, June 3, 2026 There’s been a subtle but overlooked shift in the bloody war between Russia and Ukraine. Despite grueling causalities and losses on both sides in the fighting, the Kremlin leadership has been able to keep the worst effects of the conflict away from key populations in […]
Special to WorldTribune.com By John J. Metzler, May 26, 2026 Admittedly it looks a lot like a movie plot. A political thriller where the intelligence Director of the chief adversary state, comes into the nervous capital city and meets with regime leaders to tell them their days in power are numbered. Unless … Then a […]
Special to WorldTribune.com Analysis by Gregory R. Copley, Editor, GIS/Defense & Foreign Affairs, May 18, 2022 Neither President Donald Trump nor PRC President Xi Jinping were anything less than cynical — or pragmatic — over the purposes and outcome of the Trump State Visit to the PRC on May 13-16, 2026. It was designed to […]
Special to WorldTribune.com By John Gizzi, April 13, 2026 Hours after Hungary’s longtime Prime Minister Viktor Orban conceded defeat to opposition leader Peter Magyar in elections Sunday night, American observers were wondering what kind of prime minister Hungary would have — particularly after 16 years of Orban, a favorite of President Donald Trump who was […]
Analysis by WorldTribune Staff, April 12, 2026 Non-AI Real World News President Donald Trump has consistently opposed “blank check” funding for Ukraine, stating in 2025 that the U.S. would focus on stopping the conflict. Media have slammed Trump for supposedly shutting off the funding spigot to Ukraine. That spigot, however, was permanently turned on by […]
Special to WorldTribune.com Commentary by John J. Metzler, March 31, 2026 As embattled Ukraine faces its fifth Spring of war there’s an unsettling reality that the central European country’s conflict is clearly overshadowed and sadly overlooked since the U.S./Israeli war against the Islamic Republic of Iran. Indeed, both the urgency and economic downstream effects of […]
Special to WorldTribune.com By John J. Metzler, February 9, 2026 Set amid the spectacular Alpine scenery and historic towns of northern Italy, the XXV Winter Olympics have opened in Milan/Cortina. The two week event hosting 90 teams and some 2,900 athletes are competing in sporting events from the traditional downhill skiing, snowboard, speed skating to […]
Special to WorldTribune.com By John J. Metzler, January 26, 2026 Location, Location, Location. Whether in real estate or international politics, the physical location of a particular property, country or sea-lane plays into its geopolitical importance. From Manhattan to Miami, from Singapore to Suez and Gibraltar to Greenland, so much is determined by the location and […]
by WorldTribune Staff, January 15, 2026 Real World News President Donald Trump has stated that the United States needs Greenland for national security purposes and that that China and Russia have designs on the world’s largest island. While officials in Denmark and Greenland were quick to dismiss and downplay the scenario, a December assessment by […]
