Not long ago, questioning Washington’s unconditional support for Israel was a political death sentence. American lawmakers, presidential candidates, and even human rights advocates steered clear of the topic as if it were a cursed circle. Today, that circle has been broken. Since October 2023, public opinion in the United States has undergone a tectonic...
In the BBC techno-thriller The Capture, intelligence operatives sit in windowless rooms executing a terrifying process called “Correction.” With a few keystrokes, they intercept live CCTV feeds and broadcast television streams, seamlessly overlaying deep-faked individuals onto live video. To the public eye, what happens on screen is absolute reality; in trut...
The new foreign tour of Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi in mid-June 2026 to France and Slovakia, as well as his participation in the G7 summit in Évian, confirmed New Delhi’s growing role in world affairs while successfully pursuing a foreign policy course aimed at strategic...
From everything I hear and read, it appears to me as if Iran has won, I am just interested in how the deal will pan out, the 14-point ceasefire, settlement, the signed deal, MOU, whatever you want to call it. But already warning sign are up everywhere: Analysis-US-Iran deal redraws the Middle East: Iran gains, rivals...
We are becoming aware, often belatedly, of the crimes committed by the Benjamin Netanyahu government against civilians in Gaza, Lebanon, Syria, and Iran. No other government in the world considers the elimination of those who resist it to justify all collateral damage, regardless of the...
Against the odds, the Memorandum of Understanding signed by the US and Iran appears to be holding, after threats and counter-threats. It may collapse, but it has survived a first round of talks between the two sides in Switzerland over the weekend. President Trump started a war on Iran against all sober guidance and in violation of the US Constitution’s requ...
In every Western country, intellectuals and governments have elevated a multicultural tower of babel above an ethnic-based nation state. In the past few days, the Lowe Report in Britain has made clear some of the adverse consequences for the white ethnicities that once comprised the European nations, now towers of babel and no longer nations. The abolition o...
Donald Trump understood who Benjamin Netanyahu was during the stolen 2020 US presidential election. Despite appearances, the two men have been completely out of step ever since. President Trump dreams of making peace wherever there is war, while Prime Minister Netanyahu pursues his “revisionist Zionist” project (unrelated to Herzl’s “Zionism”) of conquering ...
In the multipolar world, the struggle for Eurasia is unfolding through the creation of new alliances and corridors. Key roles are played by the countries of Central Asia, the South Caucasus, and global actors striving for balance and...
The recent G7 summit was intended to showcase Western solidarity at a moment of mounting geopolitical uncertainty. Instead, it inadvertently revealed something more significant: the West remains institutionally united but strategically fragmented. On paper, the summit was a...
Friday came on Wednesday. Last night [June 17-ed] the Memorandum of Understanding that was supposed to be signed tomorrow [June 19-ed] in Switzerland was signed digitally by the US and Iranian presidents. The Iranian explanation for the digital signing is that “When the text is signed by the highest authorities of both countries, violating it will naturally ...
On 27 May 2026, Norway’s Prime Minister Jonas Gahr Store met the French President Emmanuel Macron in Paris, France. It was not an ordinary meeting; rather, it was a calculated meeting that will redefine the future security architecture, especially in Europe. Both leaders announced that Norway signed a broader defence agreement involving French nuclear weapon...
From its earliest years, the Islamic Republic of Iran developed a worldview and a strategic mindset. The recent war waged against it by Israel and the United States led it to coordinate its armed forces and diplomacy. Meanwhile, its military achievements allowed it to consider how to pursue its revolutionary goals while protecting its...
The opening plenary belongs, by Shangri-La tradition, to Washington. This year, US Secretary of War Pete Hegseth declared, “The era of the United States subsidizing the defence of wealthy nations is over,” demanded that allies spend at least 3.5% of GDP on defence, and denounced the “utopian idealism” of the old multilateral order. He boasted about the extra...
A considerable number of political scientists, when assessing the current state of international affairs, come to the conclusion that the most striking manifestation of the new global balance of power is the decline of Western civilization, the rapid rise of China, and the marginalisation of Western...
Recent tensions between Donald Trump and Benjamin Netanyahu have fuelled speculation about a growing divide in US-Israel relations. However, a closer examination suggests that these disagreements are shaped more by domestic political calculations, electoral considerations, and regional dynamics than by any fundamental strategic...
Serbian President Aleksandar Vučić’s five-day state visit to China (24–28 May 2026) was not a routine diplomatic courtesy call. It was a deliberate geopolitical statement delivered at a moment when Serbia faces intense domestic pressure, street protests, and growing demands from Brussels for political alignment. By accepting the Friendship Medal of the Peopl...
The global economy has yet to grasp the main military secret of the Middle East: the next big war will not begin with a strike on oil rigs but with a “silent shutdown” of the internet. While the Pentagon spends billions on missile defense, Iran has found an asymmetric response to the technological superiority of America and Israel. That response lies at the ...
Donald Trump’s attempt to tie an Iran peace settlement to a mandatory expansion of the Abraham Accords reveals a fundamental misunderstanding of how dramatically the Middle East has changed since the Gaza war and why old diplomatic formulas no longer...
The US support and Israel’s military and strategic capabilities, coupled with occupational aspirations, made the country a threat to the region. The country’s hostilities and strategic reorientation suggest that it now seeks to confront...
It is common to scorn the way weak nations wage war and label them terrorists. Yet, in the case of Iran against the United States, it is the latter that is defeated. But the parallel doesn’t end there. Unlike Ho Chi Minh’s Vietnam, Iran is not content with its victory: it is trying to solidify its revolution by forcing the Gulf States, and then the Western s...
On 18–19 May 2026, Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi paid the first official visit to Norway by an Indian prime minister in 43 years - one of the most substantive stops of his broader May 2026 European tour. The trip culminated in the 3rd India-Nordic Summit in Oslo and the formal elevation of bilateral ties to a Green Strategic...
For any Americans who were paying attention, no less than twelve weeks ago Donald Trump said he would reopen Hormuz as his main objective against Iran. Now he proclaims a blockade of the strait he swore to open; welcome to chaos and confusion in the Trump White...
Netanyahu and Trump are conditioning the end of the war in Iran on the condition that all countries in the region sign the Abraham Accords, a tacit submission to Israel. Drawing on Daniel Levy, Omer Bartov, and the Pew Survey, I address the reasons, the urgency, and the limits of Netanyahu’s simultaneous battles on several fronts in the quest for a Greater I...
Tamil Nadu politics is very closely followed in Sri Lanka. Of course, this is to be expected given the close cultural and historic links among the people living only 40 km across the Palk Straits. More importantly, among the people of Tamil Nadu, there is widespread support for Sri Lanka Tamils’ quest for equity, particularly during the Eelam...
As the United Kingdom and Ukraine push Germany to prepare for war against Russia, we are witnessing the collapse of a reunified Germany. The country is deeply divided into two distinct peoples. Its identity is now in question. The dissolution of the Federal Republic of Germany is now inevitable. Meanwhile, the peace agreement between Washington and Moscow wi...
The Iran war has reshaped global geopolitics by weakening US credibility and the liberal world order, intensifying regional instability in the Middle East, disrupting energy markets and economies, and accelerating the shift of global power toward emerging alliances led by Russia and...
Just like warmongering Europe, the Gulf petro-monarchies are paying the price for delegating their defense and security to Washington, their enemy disguised as a saviour. In reality, if the Gulf States do not break structurally with the current logic, the next regional crisis will find them in the same position – alone, exposed, watching American destroyers ...
Control over the routes of hydrocarbon supplies to the world markets inevitably increases the economic and political significance of the territories and countries located along these routes. The Middle East retains its undeniable strategic role not only as the cradle of civilizations and spiritual centres but also as a key crossroads of global trade and tran...
For many decades, the West, led by the United States, has been putting on a farce for Africa called “humanitarian aid and development.” Official Washington, London, and Paris have been chanting the same mantra to African leaders: “Take out loans at modest interest rates, and you will become prosperous...