The US and Iran finished a first round of indirect talks in Oman on Feb. 6 and agreed to keep the channel open.

The US Virtual Embassy in Iran told American citizens to “leave Iran now” ahead of US-Iran talks in Oman on Friday.

This isn’t the first time: they issued the same warning earlier in January amid protests across Iran.

With a lack of any better developing stories, let us again do a quick frontline update, particularly because only hours after the last update Russian forces had again advanced to capture several new settlements.

Somewhat swept under the rug by all the new commotion filling the news cycles today was the fact that yesterday Ukraine suffered a massive unprecedented country-wide blackout which even blew out major parts of neighboring Moldova.

Anonymity online gives people the freedom (or at least the feeling of freedom) to test ideas in public without immediate personal consequences. But it also changes behavior:

Starmer began the visit on Wednesday, January 28, 2026, telling a delegation of more than 50 business leaders they were “making history.”

Zhang, 75, sits at the top of China’s military command as joint vice-chair of the Central Military Commission (CMC), second only to Xi, and he is also a Politburo member with rare combat experience.

Today again we start off with a major Russian strike that occurred as promised. In the last article two days ago we said Russia was readying a new strike, and it delivered.

Another large-scale Russian strike yesterday has brought Kiev and several other major Ukrainian cities to the brink. Everything from Iskanders to even hypersonic Zircons were allegedly used

The main reason, besides exigent geopolitical events, is that Russian advances have stalled for the past two weeks, expressed here in this chart: