• The world yearns for peace—but it’s preparing for war:
• This week, Russia announced a new nuclear weapon that it says could wipe out the entire state of Texas at one time.
• NATO’s new missile defense system in Romania just went operational—and Russia doesn’t like it one bit
• Renewed warnings sounded that Iran could be using North Korea as its nuclear weapons development partner
• Germany is increasing the size of its military for the first time since the Cold War
• We’ll also talk about Britain’s dying steel industry, how Europe’s immigration crisis isn’t going away—a new warning that California may be about to experience “the big one”—and how China’s president has become a pop culture icon.