US President Donald Trump is taking a less combative approach towards China ahead of his meeting with President Xi Jinping this week, reflecting what China experts say is Beijing’s growing leverage through
Behind President Trump’s abrupt reversal on threatened strikes against Iran lies a complex web of back-channel diplomacy, according to reporting by the Wall Street Journal. Foreign ministers from Egypt, Turkey, Saudi Arabia,
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Less than 48 hours before the U.S.-Israeli operation against Iran commenced, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu reached out to President Donald Trump in a high-stakes phone call, advocating for a strike on Iranian
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A Democratic-backed proposal aimed at fast-tracking separate funding for the Transportation Security Administration (TSA) failed in the U.S. Senate on Saturday, deepening the country’s airport security crisis. The measure, which sought to
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President Donald Trump has announced a five‑day pause on planned strikes targeting Iranian energy facilities. The White House described the decision as a move following “productive and constructive conversations” with Iranian representatives,
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“Stupidity has come back as a king – no; as an emperor…” ~ Aldous Huxley (Eyeless in Gaza) Most of the business of the United Nations are so routine they barely
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by Durga As tensions escalate in the Middle East, Donald Trump has transformed social media into an unprecedented theater of war, using his platform Truth Social to narrate, influence, and at times
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Less than three weeks into the aggression against Iran since February 28, which the US President Donald Trump called a “little excursion”, the war is assuming a scenario that is the exact
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Three weeks into the US-Israeli war against Iran, the list of losers is unusually long. Iran is getting devastated. The United States is trapped in an asymmetric conflict it can’t exit. Gulf
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The ‘Great America’ that President Trump has been promising the public looks too often more like Al Capone’s gangster-ridden Chicago of the 1920’s – except even more violent. At least a senior
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The Pentagon has quietly signaled it will seek a staggering $200 billion from Congress to sustain the ongoing war in Iran, a figure that would significantly expand the already immense U.S. defense
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Why did Donald Trump attack Iran? Did he believe that a quick victory would boost his poll ratings? Was he looking for a way to change the subject from the Epstein files
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The American-Israeli war has entered week three. The longer it lasts, the more its economic shocks will hurt Trump politically—especially if he keeps insisting that Americans must simply tough it out until
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George Friedman’s latest podcast presents a meticulous account of the evolution of the war with Iran, exposing critical miscalculations and unanticipated outcomes. Friedman begins by stating, “All wars evolve. The fundamental purpose
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There is an English proverb, ‘The darkest hours are just before the dawn.’ Maybe, hope should linger on that the cruel, senseless bombing of Iran by the US and Israel is leading
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Venezuela is grappling with surging inflation and worsening economic hardship despite promises of a rapid recovery following the removal of former president Nicolás Maduro, casting doubt on claims that the country’s economy
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