Have you noticed how many wars there are without being declared? Israel launches a military attack on Iran and Iran retaliates, but there is no declaration of war. Israel will attack again, and Iran will again respond by retaliating. But neither country is at war. Russia has been in conflict with Ukraine since February, 2023, but it is a Special Military Ope...
It all started in the early morning hours of 13 June 2025, with what Israel calls “Operation Rising Lion”. Israel’s Air Force launched dozens of air strikes against Iran, targeting its nuclear [energy] program. According to BBC, in Iran’s own words, this is the biggest assault on Iran’s territory since the Iran-Iraq War of...
This is not just a leak - it’s a total collapse of Israel’s security apparatus, which failed to protect even its most guarded state secrets. According to sources close to Iranian intelligence, the operation was one of the largest in the history of the two nations’ confrontation. The archives now in Tehran’s possession contain thousands of documents, includin...
The NATO summit in The Hague could mark the end of the European Union. The President of the United States has announced that he may no longer ensure the security of the EU. If this were the case, there would be an urgent need to reorganize the stability of the European continent. Washington already has its solution: replacing the current one around Germany w...
Most people still think of artificial intelligence as a single brain-like machine - a futuristic mind that speaks in smooth tones, answers questions, plays music, writes poems, and maybe someday drives our cars or runs our governments. But that’s a fantasy version of AI, projected by Silicon Valley marketing departments and consumed by a public too...
In 2012, Russian President Vladimir Putin declared that “The nuclear weapons remain the most important guarantee of Russia’s sovereignty and territorial integrity and play a key role in maintaining the regional balance and stability.” In the intervening years, western analysts and observers have accused Russia and its leadership of irresponsibly invoking the...
Large-scale unrest has gripped parts of Los Angeles since late last week [June 6-ed] in response to the Immigration and Customs Enforcement’s (ICE) recent operations against illegal immigrants there. Trump authorized the National Guard to restore order but clashes still continue. The unrest poses a pressing national security threat since it concerns the coun...
It is surprising that many are surprised that the pseudo-negotiations on Ukraine have fallen flat. They are over before any substantive exchanges between Moscow and Kiev started. Trump’s much heralded initiative to stop the fighting never carried the necessary understanding or conviction. Yes, he did say a few things during the campaign and the transition th...
Ukraine’s strategic drone strikes on Sunday against elements of Russia’s nuclear triad all across the country were an unprecedented provocation that risks a dramatic worsening of the conflict. Speculation has since swirled about whether Trump knew about these attacks in advance, which his Press Secretary denied. What follows are five relevant points, each ac...
Türkiye always uses the historical conditions to its advantage to realise its national interests. In this context, Turkish leaders often play on different fields. Erdoğan is one of the most exquisite masters of geopolitical navigation. Ankara is declaring a ‘Turkish axis’ strategy, raising the status of the Turkish state from a regional to a supra-regional (...
Burkina Faso’s leader Ibrahim Traoré embodies the collapse of French dominance in West Africa, challenging Paris’s influence through anti-colonial rhetoric, resource nationalism, and strategic realignments. Traoré’s defiance is not just about Burkina Faso - it’s part of a broader geopolitical realignment in Africa, where sovereignty, resources, and ideology ...
Traoré’s defiance is not just about Burkina Faso - it’s part of a broader geopolitical realignment in Africa, where sovereignty, resources, and ideology are being reclaimed from Western powers. For Macron, it’s not only a diplomatic defeat - it’s a warning of what may come elsewhere in France’s former colonial...
Contrary to what we thought in 1991, the fall of the “American Empire” will not resemble that of the USSR. Washington’s Western European allies intend to perpetuate it, with or without their leader. It follows that President Donald Trump will abandon them in the cold. After decoupling the United States from the “revisionist Zionists” in power in Israel, Pres...
In geopolitics, timing is often more telling than the event itself. Such is the case with the European Union’s and the UK’s recent decision to impose fresh sanctions on Russia - announced just a day after former President Donald Trump held a two-hour “serious” conversation with Vladimir Putin. This is not the first time European states have sanctioned...
The Cold War had rules. Its logic was brutal but coherent - containment, deterrence, symmetry of force, plausible diplomacy in public, real negotiations in private. There were boundaries, even if violated. Today, there are none. What has replaced that order is not multipolarity, but a form of chaos marketed as freedom. And at the center of that chaos stands ...
Washington is reverting to its old tactics, telling Iran that it must either halt even “peaceful uranium enrichment” or face attack. For decades, the United States has tried to break Iran through sanctions, ultimatums, and military threats. Yet each time, this strategy fails. Tehran not only refuses to back down but also strengthens its position, proving th...
We don’t understand the negotiations in Ukraine and the Middle East because we don’t understand the difference between wars and civil conflicts. We approach peace-making as if it were a matter of dividing up common property during a divorce, after a few years of living together. But wars are of unparalleled intensity and are rooted in long-standing conflicts...
India Today recently published two detailed reports here and here about the significance of Bangladeshi Army Chief General Waker-uz-Zaman criticized the decision of Chief Advisor Muhammad Yunus’ government to participate in the creation of a humanitarian corridor to Myanmar’s Rakhine State. The gist is that Waker is allegedly concerned that this could direct...
Today [May 26-ed] is Memorial Day, during which our nation honours those who have “given their lives” for our country in war. Of course the US has been at war for much of its history. My American ancestors arrived in Massachusetts in the 1630s as part of the Great Puritan Migration. During the almost 400 years of American history since the Europeans first ca...
Recently after the terrorist attack on Hindu tourists in Pahalgam, Kashmir (22 April, 2025) India retaliated by attacking the terrorist bases in Pakistan occupied Kashmir (PoK) and Pakistan on 7 May 2025. The approach was similar, yet on a smaller scale, to that of the USA, Russia or Israel against the terrorism. The world has not forgotten the US invasion o...