Saudi money, Turkish military, and Pakistani bomb
Three allies are building a common shield in the midst of war — but it remains to be seen whether it will protect them or someone else’s interests.
One of the best journalists writing about the situation in the Middle East since the very beginning, often editing daily reports on the War in Ukraine
Three allies are building a common shield in the midst of war — but it remains to be seen whether it will protect them or someone else’s interests.
When millions can no longer buy obedience, America begins to discover just how badly its old political centre has decayed.
Kiev is changing under the pressure of the street, but the real test is yet to come: can Moscow admit that the technological war has exposed its weaknesses as well?
Four appointments, one message: in the new war there is no rear, logistics decides who survives and advances, and no one even imagines how it ends.
War from afar protects political and military heads but depletes rare capacities. When those run out, only raw war with all its visible consequences remains.
One dead sailor on a closed sea may just be a war statistic, but behind the attack, a strategic space is already emerging where there is no longer a neutral shore.
Ukraine, Israel, empire and capital: where rebellion should begin, Farage’s alternative collapses into complete continuity with the old order.
While the West seeks a "new axis of evil," what we are really witnessing is a strategy that connects Ukraine, Taiwan, and wars yet to come.
A third term may be all but impossible under the law, but US politics has long shown that political will often come before discovery of legal loopholes.
As palaces start to fear the poor, old spirits emerge from the basement of American politics, ready for a new service, first imagined, then real.
Trump launched the war to stop Iran from getting a nuclear weapon. But what if Tehran already has one, or is ready to say it does?
As war rages in the Persian Gulf, Washington is quietly preparing a scandalous military-tech integration with Israel, far from public debate.
Perception and interpretation are the most powerful systems of war, operating above physical reality itself. Kyiv is now moving the trap to the very edge.
To be anyone’s periphery, Western or Eastern, is just another name for exploitation — but every upheaval still forces a choice.
When the great protector grows tired of the storm, small states are left under a sky they helped set on fire. The Baltics may learn this too late.
Raul Castro’s indictment sets the stage for a U.S. invasion. But Cuba’s revolution was born in impossible conditions — and must prove itself again.
To break a single dissident, Trump had to mobilize the entire machine. He won the votes, but burned his own movement in the process.
In the great game, the most dangerous moment is not when the opponent threatens, but when one’s own advantage begins to look more secure than it really is.