As we reach the end of 2025, let us look forward to 2026 with a projection for where the battlefield will take us in the next year.

Downing Street is arguing that a planned Chinese embassy complex in London could actually make Britain safer, even as critics warn it could become a purpose-built spying hub. Nonetheless, this mega project keeps slipping on the calendar.

Another day and another internet-breaking Putin conference wherein the Russian leader has voiced some headline-grabbing words.

I wouldn’t trade places with either of these guys, unless you enjoy the nonstop pressure, global scrutiny, and the lingering fear that someone is always plotting your exit. But it is fun to imagine what you’d do if you were:

Venice has given Greta Thunberg a 48 hour expulsion after Extinction Rebellion activists dyed the Grand Canal a fluorescent green to protest weak climate action at COP30 in Brazil.

American political commentator Candace Owens has fired off a long assassination claim on X accusing French President Macron and first lady Brigitte Macron of paying to have her killed.

The ‘peace settlement’ shenanigans continue their descent into kabuki farce. The back and forth tug between “28 point” plans and “19 point” plans and everything in between is nearing the slapstick absurdity of a Monty Python skit.

Russia’s wartime mobile internet blackouts have turned from rare annoyance into daily routine across much of the country. Even credit cards, transit gates, medical apps, and group chats all now depend on a signal that keeps vanishing on purpose.

Buried beneath the theater of the Ukraine war’s terminal crescendos, Trump’s administration has quietly tightened the noose around Venezuela.