Restricted Handling Daily Intel Brief

👉 Subscribe to The Restricted Handling Podcast https://www.restrictedhandling.com/ In today's Restricted Handling Daily Intel Brief, Ryan and Glenn break down a huge Middle East episode where diplomacy, oil, sanctions, Hezbollah, Israel, Iran, and the Strait of Hormuz all collide in one very crowded geopolitical kitchen. The main event is the latest round of US-Iran talks in Switzerland, where Vi...

👉 Subscribe to The Restricted Handling Podcast   https://www.restrictedhandling.com/   China is having a week, and this episode of The Restricted Handling Daily Intel Brief gets right into it. Ryan and Glenn break down how Beijing is trying to turn the aftermath of the US-Iran war into a strategic win, using diplomacy, energy resilience, and a very convenient "we told you so" message aimed at the...

👉 Subscribe to The Restricted Handling Podcast   https://www.restrictedhandling.com/   Russia is feeling the heat, and this episode of The Restricted Handling Daily Intel Brief gets straight into why. Ukraine's long-range strike campaign is no longer just a battlefield story. It is becoming an economic, energy, intelligence, and geopolitical pressure campaign aimed at the systems that keep Moscow...

👉 Subscribe to The Restricted Handling Podcast https://www.restrictedhandling.com/ What's coming up next week in global geopolitics, intelligence, and security? This episode breaks it all down in a clean, structured, no-noise briefing that walks you through the major scheduled events shaping the international system from Sunday through Saturday. From UN Security Council sessions on Ukraine and th...

👉 Subscribe to The Restricted Handling Podcast https://www.restrictedhandling.com/   A weekly deep dive into the latest spy stories and intelligence updates from across the globe. We spotlight the hidden dynamics driving security crises, geopolitical maneuvering, and covert operations—all with a sharp, unvarnished perspective. From cyber threats to clandestine influence campaigns, this episode pu...

👉 Subscribe to The Restricted Handling Podcast https://www.restrictedhandling.com/   Step beyond the headlines and official spin to uncover the deeper realities inside Russia and China's economies. We take a close look at how Moscow and Beijing project power abroad while grappling with fragile foundations at home, from Russia's unsustainable wartime spending to China's faltering growth and anxiou...

👉 Subscribe to The Restricted Handling Podcast   https://www.restrictedhandling.com/   Welcome back to The Restricted Handling Podcast, where we break down the global security picture without the noise and get straight to what  actually matters .   Today's episode dives into a rapidly shifting Russia file that is starting to feel less like isolated events and more like a system under layered pres...

👉 Subscribe to The Restricted Handling Podcast   https://www.restrictedhandling.com/   Today's episode dives straight into the fast-moving pressure points shaping global security, and it is one of those days where everything feels connected in real time. W e start in the Indo-Pacific, where China is steadily expanding its operational footprint around Taiwan in a way that is less about dramatic mi...

👉 Subscribe to The Restricted Handling Podcast   https://www.restrictedhandling.com/   The Middle East just hit one of those moments where diplomacy, war, and global energy markets all start pulling on each other at the same time, and nothing stays neatly in its lane.   In this episode, we break down how the US-Iran framework is already getting stress tested just days after being announced. What...

👉  Subscrib  to The Restricted Handling Podcast   https://www.restrictedhandling.com/   Today's episode of the Russia brief dives straight into a moment where the war is no longer just defined by the front lines, but by pressure spreading across diplomacy, industry, energy systems, and information space all at once.   We start with the G7 summit in France, where Western leaders  signaled  a notic...

👉 Subscribe to The Restricted Handling Podcast   https://www.restrictedhandling.com/   Today's episode drops straight into the global pressure points shaping the next phase of great power competition. We start in the Taiwan Strait, where Taipei is pushing hard for approval of a $14 billion US arms package while trying to lock in long-term security certainty from Washington. President Lai Ching- t...

👉 Subscribe to The Restricted Handling Podcast   https://www.restrictedhandling.com/   The Middle East just entered one of those rare,  high-stakes  pause moments where everything looks calmer on the  surface  but nothing is  actually settled  underneath. In this episode of the Restricted Handling Daily Intel Brief, we break down the US–Iran interim agreement that halts open conflict while openin...

👉 Subscribe to The Restricted Handling Podcast https://www.restrictedhandling.com/ This episode of The Restricted Handling Daily Intel Brief dives straight into one of the most consequential geopolitical resets in recent memory, as the US–Iran framework agreement reshapes energy security, regional power balances, and the future of conflict across the Middle East. At the center of everything is th...

👉  Subscrib  to The Restricted Handling Podcast   https://www.restrictedhandling.com/ China is quietly reshaping the global chessboard again, and this episode breaks down how it's  happening across multiple layers at once. We are not talking about one headline story here. This is a coordinated shift across trade, technology, intelligence, finance, and regional security that is starting to look mo...

👉 Subscribe to The Restricted Handling Podcast   https://www.restrictedhandling.com/ Welcome back to The Restricted Handling Podcast, where we break down the global security picture without the noise and keep it focused on what actually matters . In today's episode, Russia sits at the  center  of a rapidly expanding set of pressures that stretch far beyond the battlefield in Ukraine.   We start i...

👉 Subscribe to The Restricted Handling Podcast   https://www.restrictedhandling.com/   Russia takes  center  stage in this episode of  The Restricted Handling Daily Intel Brief , and wow, Moscow brought a whole buffet of bad decisions to the table. In today's brief, Ryan and Glenn break down how Russia's latest strike on Kyiv, the burning of the historic Kyiv-Pechersk Lavra, and the timing of the...

👉 Subscribe to The Restricted Handling Podcast   https://www.restrictedhandling.com/   This episode of The Restricted Handling Daily Intel Brief dives straight into the biggest geopolitical story of the day: the US and Iran appear to have found an off-ramp after months of war, but the fine print is doing a lot of heavy lifting. Ryan and Glenn break down the June 14 framework agreement, the planne...

👉 Subscribe to The Restricted Handling Podcast   https://www.restrictedhandling.com/   China is doing the classic "nothing to see here" routine while quietly trying to rewrite the operating system around Taiwan. In this episode of The Restricted Handling Daily Intel Brief, Ryan and Glenn break down Beijing's latest  gray -zone push, from maritime "offshore governance" east of Taiwan to the broade...

👉 Subscribe to The Restricted Handling Podcast https://www.restrictedhandling.com/ This week on  The Restricted Handling Daily Intel Brief's What's Coming Up Next Week in the World , we are rolling into a packed global calendar with the geopolitical equivalent of a five-screen sports bar: G7 leaders in France, EU ministers in Luxembourg and Brussels, NATO ships moving through the Baltic, central...

👉 Subscribe to The Restricted Handling Podcast https://www.restrictedhandling.com/   A weekly deep dive into the latest spy stories and intelligence updates from across the globe. We spotlight the hidden dynamics driving security crises, geopolitical maneuvering, and covert operations—all with a sharp, unvarnished perspective. From cyber threats to clandestine influence campaigns, this episode pu...

👉 Subscribe to The Restricted Handling Podcast   https://www.restrictedhandling.com/   Today's episode of  The Restricted Handling Daily Intel Brief  jumps straight into the pressure cooker: the US, Iran, the Strait of Hormuz, Gulf energy politics, Lebanon, Hezbollah, Israel, and the high-stakes diplomacy that could either cool the region down or send everyone right back into the danger zone.   R...

👉 Subscribe to The Restricted Handling Podcast https://www.restrictedhandling.com/ China is back in the spotlight, and this episode has a little bit of everything: strategic tech decoupling, South China Sea pressure, AI industrial policy, space race drama, Taiwan diplomacy, Myanmar intelligence intrigue, and yes, Beijing is now talking about spy turtles and spy fish. Somehow, that is a real sente...

👉 Subscribe to The Restricted Handling Podcast   https://www.restrictedhandling.com/   Ryan and Glenn break down the top Russia, Ukraine, NATO, intelligence, energy, cyber, and sanctions-adjacent stories shaping the battlefield and the geopolitical chessboard. We start with a rare diplomatic push by Britain, France, and Germany, whose ambassadors met Russian Deputy Foreign Minister Mikhail Galuzi...

👉 Subscribe to The Restricted Handling Podcast https://www.restrictedhandling.com/ The war in Ukraine has now officially lasted longer than World War I, and that milestone sets the stage for one of the most important discussions we've had in a while. In this episode of The Restricted Handling Podcast, Ryan and Glenn break down what that historic marker actually means for Russia, Ukraine, Europe,...

👉 Subscribe to The Restricted Handling Podcast   https://www.restrictedhandling.com/   China is playing the whole board today, and this episode of The Restricted Handling Daily Intel Brief breaks down why it matters for US national security, the Indo-Pacific, AI infrastructure, global trade, and intelligence operations.   In this June 11,  2026  China brief, Ryan and Glenn dig into Beijing's rare...