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US Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent promises to sever every economic lifeline sustaining Iran. Tehran says Washington is claiming authority over other sovereign states. History, geography, China’s resistance and Iran’s leverage over Gulf commerce suggest America can inflict enormous suffering without securing surrender or controlling what follows.
Economics
The yen should be strengthening as the interest rate gap with America narrows. Instead it remains stubbornly weak. The market may be signalling a deeper problem: Japan needs higher interest rates to support its…
Russia’s larger population, deeper industrial base, greater energy resources and superior capacity in missiles, aircraft, air defence and large-scale weapons production are steadily widening…
Spain
The dramatic scenes in Ceuta were widely described as an invasion of Europe. They were not. The migrants entered a small Spanish enclave but could not freely travel to mainland Spain. The real story…
The AfD could win more than 40 per cent in Saxony-Anhalt without entering government. Germany’s anti-AfD firewall remains constitutionally legitimate, but permanently excluding such…
Artificial Intelligence (AI)
Former OpenAI researcher Daniel Kokotajlo argues that competition between leading AI companies could encourage faster development at the expense of effective oversight. His forecasts remain highly uncertain, but they raise an urgent question: who…