Iran’s New Grand Strategy: The Regime That Refused to Die
On 28 February 2026, the United States and Israel launched the strike they had spent months planning — and Tehran […]
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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
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
Strategy of Consolidation: How Trump Can Revitalize American Power
In the autumn of 1904, a blunt, restless admiral named John “Jacky” Fisher took the helm of the Royal Navy
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
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,
Why Xi Is Kneecapping His Own Top Men
Targeting the inner circle of leadership shows no one is safe. Xi Jinping’s unprecedented purge of his own inner circle
Trump’s Hormuz Blockade: The High-Stakes Gamble That Could Ignite a Global Energy Crisis
When Truth Social Became the Most Consequential Feed on Earth It arrived, as so many seismic shifts in American foreign
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 —
Vance’s ‘Final Offer’ in Islamabad: How the U.S.-Iran Talks Failed—and What It Means for the World
By Nathaniel Cross, Senior International Affairs Analyst and Contributor to The New York Times, Forbes, and Foreign Affairs. The sun
The Weight of Islamabad: What JD Vance’s Iran Gamble Tells Us About America — and the World
He boarded Air Force Two at Joint Base Andrews on a Friday morning and, in doing so, stepped into history.
A Wait in the Strait: Why Shipping Giants Are Still Frozen Despite the Hormuz Cease-Fire
Shipping companies are reacting with extreme caution as Hormuz cease-fire terms remain uncertain. Here’s why the Strait of Hormuz standstill