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...