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For six weeks in the spring of 2024, Todd Blanche sat under the harsh fluorescent lights of a Manhattan courtroom, […]
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Maritime Chokepoints Crisis: War for the Narrow Seas
Since May 6, open transits through the Strait of Hormuz have fallen to near zero vessels per day. Not a
Trump Says the Iran Deal to Reopen Hormuz Is ‘Largely Negotiated.’ Tehran Tells a Different Story.
On Saturday, May 23, Donald Trump took to social media to announce that a deal with Iran — including the
Taiwan Casts a Long Shadow Over Trump’s Summit With Xi
There is a ritual to superpower summitry — the handshakes choreographed for cameras, the communiqués burnished to diplomatic smoothness, the
China’s Nuclear Buildup and the Erosion of Strategic Stability
Beijing’s rapid expansion of its nuclear arsenal—tripling in size since 2019, with over 1,000 warheads now projected by 2030—is reshaping
Global Energy Markets on the Brink: From Bad to Awful — Why the Strait of Hormuz Crisis Signals a Deeper Disaster
The traders are wrong. Markets keep pricing in a resolution that the physical world keeps refusing to deliver — and
How Iran Has Been Studying Lessons from the War in Ukraine
There is a phrase used inside certain NATO planning cells that has become something of a grim shorthand for a
The Fragile Peace: Trump’s Tehran Gambit and the Lebanon Fault Line Byline
In the high-stakes theatre of global diplomacy, proximity to peace often breeds the most volatile friction. As April 2026 unfolds,
Hungary After Orbán: Magyar’s Landslide Win Reshapes Europe
Viktor Orbán concedes defeat 2026 — and with him, the illiberal playbook that mesmerised a generation of populists The Danube
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Pakistan’s Diplomatic Gambit: How Islamabad Became the World’s Most Important Address
The first direct US-Iran talks in 47 years happened on Pakistani soil. That fact alone rewrites the diplomatic map —
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