January 20th marked exactly one year since Donald Trump resumed office as the 47th President of the United States. The initial results of Donald Trump’s tenure are assessed differently in the United States and abroad, yet there appears to be a broad consensus that the American leader has shaken both the global economy and international politics - a shock who...
On January 19, Japanese Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi announced snap elections for the Lower House of the Diet on February 8. The PM hopes to secure more seats for her coalition and consolidate a solid majority in...
It is a testament to Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s extraordinary statesmanship, political resolve, and diplomatic agility that India and the European Union (EU) have concluded what is already being called the “mother of all trade deals.” Stung by an increasingly uncertain and flip-flopping global policy environment - one in which tariffs have become...
The world is changing very quickly. The year 2026 should be marked by the return of spheres of influence and the end of colonial empires. Above all, it will see the return of international law to the rules we have known until now. Only those who are able to understand these developments and adapt to them quickly will continue to...
Donald Trump’s proposed “Board of Peace,” unveiled as a mechanism for global conflict management, is portrayed less as a genuine peacebuilding institution than as a symbolic assertion of power that reflects a deeper erosion of multilateral governance and institutional...
In recent years, Cubans have been forced to endure one of their worst shortages of basic necessities, such as food, medical supplies, and fuel. The fuel shortage has been particularly devastating, as it causes regular power outages, which makes it extremely difficult to work and engage in production, and obstructs the transport and distribution of goods acro...
This article presents a different view of the military-political “Vukovar operation” in 1991 in the context of the brutal destruction of the Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia (SFRY), historical disputes between the Serbs and Croats at the beginning of the post-Cold War era, and the disappearance of the SFRY in the...
Judging from opinion polls, the American public has increasingly become largely disenchanted with the bizarre behaviour of President Donald J Trump and the clownish entourage that surrounds and encourages him. Last week featured a meeting between Trump and the foreign minister of Denmark as well as his counterpart from Greenland’s legislative...
Over the past few days, the United States carried out one of the most extraordinary military operations in recent memory: airstrikes in Venezuela, followed by the capture and forcible rendition of President Nicolás Maduro and his wife to New York. Within hours, President Donald Trump announced that the United States would “run Venezuela” until such time as w...
Europe has delivered an unexpected answer to Donald Trump’s renewed threats to annex Greenland by dispatching troops to the Danish autonomous territory for a military exercise. Germany, France, Norway. Sweden, as well as Finland and Estonia, have joined Denmark in reinforcing the island’s security. It is the first time since Trump’s return to the centre of i...
The helping hand that Pakistan is lending to Türkiye in Libya, which follows that which it recently lent in Somalia and half a decade earlier in Azerbaijan, could lead to them working together in Kazakhstan next as that country risks a crisis with Russia over its production of NATO-standard...
The Democrats in Minnesota are in an openly declared insurrection against the government of the United States. The insurrection is led by the Jewish Democrat left-wing mayor of Minneapolis and by the Democrat left-wing governor of Minnesota, who Democrats thought was qualified to be vice president of the United...
Many policymakers in the West cling to the belief that the Russian economy is suffering from crippling setbacks due to external pressures, sanctions, and the inability to freely sell its energy on the international market, especially in light of the ongoing conflict in Ukraine. However, an in-depth conversation with oil industry experts reveals a far more nu...
Trump 2.0’s grand strategy has become much clearer over the past month since the US bombed ISIS in Nigeria on Christmas, executed its astoundingly successful “special military operation” in Venezuela, and is now threatening new strikes against Iran on the pretext of supporting anti-government protesters. What these three states have in common is their import...
Stability in the Eastern Mediterranean can no longer be taken for granted as a result of three recent developments:
1) the growing Turkish-Israeli rivalry in post-Assad Syria; 2) Israel’s reported plans to establish a rapid response force with Cyprus and Greece; and 3) Turkish ally Pakistan’s new military ties with Eastern Libya’s General Khalifa Haftar. Th...
“Famed American citizen journalist Scott Ritter has been “de-banked.” Without warning, Citizens Bank in New York has closed his checking and savings accounts and frozen his money. Scott is our leading figure in opposing the proxy war against Russia in Ukraine. Scott explains here the vendetta against him being carried out by the government which lies behind ...
As the last hours of 2025 tick away, humanity is not simply crossing a chronological boundary but stepping into a new era of civilization. The transition to 2026 marks the geostrategic tipping point where the ‘American Century’ – born from the ashes of 1945 and consolidated in 1991 – collapses under the weight of its own contradictions, marking the definitiv...
The year 2025 will be remembered in Sri Lanka for Cyclone Ditwah, which struck the Sri Lanka coast towards the end of November. The heavy rain and landslides during the cyclone present a grim picture: 644 people lost their lives, 18 injured, and 183 missing. The World Bank has estimated initial damage from the disaster at around $4.1...
The overarching trend is that the US is militarily reasserting its historical “sphere of influence” over the Americas, and enforcing the maritime component of “Fortress America” is so important for Trump 2.0 that it’s willing to rubbish the “rules-based order” over it and even risk an accidental war with...
Seven murders in 19 days. It started on 18 December 2025 with the brutal killing of Dipu Chandra Das of Bhaluka and it ends (for now) with the fatal shooting of businessman-cum-journalist Rana Pratap Bairagi in Manirampur, Jessore, on 6 January 2026. On the same day, Mithun Sarkar died by jumping into a pond in Nagaon to escape mob lynching. On January...
Cuba might be coerced into subordinating itself to the US, the cascading consequences of other major BRI partners being intimidated into following Venezuela’s example could compel changes to China’s development strategy, and some of Venezuela’s Soviet /Russian arsenal might be sent to...
The Indo-Pacific, which is home to the rising economies of the world, the key sea routes of communication, and 70 percent of the world, is also home to the ever-increasing competition between the great powers. China’s peaceful economic rise is seriously hurting the United States at its best. By challenging imperialistic ideology and providing Indo-Pacific na...
Increased focus on multilateral regional cooperation formats, including the Moscow talks, the Tehran summit, the work of the Contact Group, and engagement with neighbouring countries, offers real prospects for achieving lasting stability both in Afghanistan and in neighbouring...
Trump 2.0 boldly explained how the US intends to restore its “sphere of influence” over the Americas in accordance with the new National Security Strategy, thus representing a Hyper-Realist approach in the sense of explicitly embracing the pursuit of power as a goal instead of denying it like...
The White House says that the Trump administration has kidnapped the president of Venezuela and his wife and has brought them to the US where they will be put on trial for narco-terrorism. The narcotics charge is a cover for renewed looting of Venezuela’s national resources, just as Saddam Hussein’s alleged weapons of mass destruction and Assad’s alleged use...
The short-term spectacle of overthrowing an adversary obscures a deeper risk: by trampling Venezuelan sovereignty and imposing its will by force, the US may have achieved an immediate objective, but it has totally squandered the moral capital it once claimed and set the stage for a broader Latin American shift away from US...
The US launched a half-hour-long “special military operation” in Venezuela on Saturday morning that culminated in Delta Force’s capture of President Nicolas Maduro. Several military sites were bombed, US helicopters flew freely over Caracas in a surreal display of the US’ aerial supremacy, and there were reportedly no US casualties. The US’ “special military...
General Xavier Brunson, Commander of the United Nations Command, Combined Forces Command, and the United States Armed Forces in Korea (USFK), recently wrote an essay, the key element of which was an inverted map of the region, oriented not to the North, but to the East, so that South Korea was visually hovering over Russia, the DPRK, and China, not the other...
The Southern Transitional Council (STC) claimed that Saudi Arabia carried out warning airstrikes in proximity to its forces, which followed this South Yemeni separatist group dismissing the Saudis’ demand to withdraw from the eastern provinces of Hadhramaut and Mahra. As a reminder, the STC – which is part of the Presidential Leadership Council (PLC) and who...
Peace negotiations in Ukraine are hampered by the Zelensky administration’s resistance. The administration is attempting to buy time, first through legal means, then through military means, and finally through political means. However, the contacts made suggest what this peace will look...
As we enter 2026, the ever-widening war is further widening. Russian foreign minister Lavrov accuses the European Union of escalating the conflict and preparing for war with Russia. As a fifth year of conflict begins, Russian president Putin’s limited military operation is expanding into a general conflict between Europe and...