Economics
Military strength no longer rests on armies alone. Artificial intelligence, sovereign debt, industrial capacity, energy security and manufacturing have become parts of the same strategic system. As America competes with China while financing unprecedented…
Iran
After six nights of American attacks, Iran says it has struck US radar stations, air defences, aircraft facilities…
Iran
Before American missiles returned to Iran, the bargain had already collapsed at sea. On Iran’s case, Washington broke…
United States
Trump’s drawdown of the Strategic Petroleum Reserve reveals a more serious weakness: America’s shrinking margin for another Gulf…
United States
United States
Israel
Iran
Iran
The US Iran memorandum does not end the conflict. It moves the war into a colder arena of sanctions, shipping, insurance, Lebanon, nuclear sequencing…
United States
Donald Trump says he calls the shots in the Middle East. Benjamin Netanyahu says an Israeli prime minister must be…
United States
The dispute over the Strait of Hormuz is no longer simply a confrontation between Washington and Tehran. It has become…
Iran
The United States says its latest strikes on southern Iran were defensive operations carried out with restraint. Iranian media says the attacks prove Washington is violating the ceasefire while continuing negotiations in Qatar. The…
United States
Donald Trump’s visit to Beijing is not a peace summit or a grand bargain. It is a crisis…
Iran
Iranian state media claimed two missiles struck a US Navy vessel near Jask after IRGC warnings, raising the…
Iran
Project Freedom is presented as a humanitarian escort mission. But guiding ships through Hormuz means entering a narrow…
United States
The dollar system is not breaking under geopolitical pressure — it is being exposed. As Washington shifts from Federal Reserve liquidity support to Treasury-led…
Iran
Iran
United States
Defence
Defence
In the Iranian account, the attempted American passage into the Persian Gulf was not a clean naval transit but a…
Diplomacy
The Islamabad talks failed not because diplomacy was impossible, but because Tehran saw the United States as a power asking…
Economics
The Iran war did not end dollar power. It exposed the cost of overusing it. The United States still sits at the centre of global finance, but repeated weaponisation of the dollar system is…
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Economics
Economics
Economics
The United States entered the latest energy shock with core inflation still too firm, pricing power still intact and the final stage of disinflation…
Economics
This is not a rerun of 1973. The old oil shock hit a manufacturing America near the height…
Economics
Donald Trump’s decision to give Iran 10 more days before threatened strikes on its energy infrastructure is being…
Defence
The forces moving into the Gulf are not an invasion army for Iran but a rapid reaction package…
Defence
Trump’s five day pause on striking Iran was not a diplomatic breakthrough. It was a strategic recoil after Tehran denied…
Defence
U.S. naval movements are not a retreat but a recalibration of risk: USS Abraham Lincoln (CVN-72) and USS Gerald R.…