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Geopolitics
Trump Just Bought Diesel From Putin, and Both Parties Are Furious
WASHINGTON – With diesel near record highs and the November 3 midterms less than four weeks away, President Donald Trump announced on October 9 that he had reached a deal with Vladimir Putin for Russia to send diesel to American and global markets. Within hours, the Treasury Department issued a Russian sanctions waiver to make…
Taiwan Is Quietly Preparing for a World Without a US Safety Net
A $14 billion US arms package is frozen, Trump and Xi Jinping are on their third summit of the year, and Washington’s most loyal partner in Asia is rethinking how much it can count on American help. TAIPEI / WASHINGTON – October 11, 2026 Taiwan celebrated its national day on Saturday with fighter-jet flyovers above…
Trump Just Put a Date on the End of the Iran War. Iran Disagrees
WASHINGTON, Oct. 9, 2026. President Donald Trump has a new answer to the question Americans keep asking at the gas pump: when will the Iran war end? His answer is “right after the midterms.” Tehran’s answer is that it doesn’t care about the midterms at all. The gap between those two positions is where oil…
Rockets Are Flying Over Israel and Its Tech Industry Just Had Its Best Year Yet
JERUSALEM / NEW YORK, October 5, 2026 – Three years after the October 7 attacks put Israel on a war footing, and months after a second war with Iran in a single year, the country’s economy is sending a message that surprises many Americans: it is still growing, its currency is near its strongest level…
UK Deploys Mine-Hunting Ship to Strait of Hormuz What It Signals About the Iran Crisis
On May 27, 2026, a crewless mine-hunting vessel designated RNMB Ariadne successfully docked inside the floodable hull of RFA Lyme Bay off Gibraltar a technical milestone that the Royal Navy described as a first-of-its-kind achievement. The operational subtext was harder to miss: Britain is positioning itself to clear Iranian mines from the Strait of Hormuz…
Trump Transforms the Quad: From Anti-China Platform to Active Strategic Alliance
On Tuesday, the foreign ministers of the United States, India, Japan, and Australia gathered at Hyderabad House in New Delhi for the latest Quad meeting a gathering that Secretary of State Marco Rubio declared proof that the Quad is “capable of addressing global challenges.” Rubio’s visit to India, running from May 23 to 26, was…
Saudi Arabia’s Helsinki-Style Non-Aggression Pact With Iran, Explained
Riyadh / Washington / Brussels – May 15, 2026 – As the guns of the US-Iran War fall into an uneasy silence and ceasefire talks remain deadlocked in Islamabad, Saudi Arabia is quietly proposing one of the most ambitious regional security frameworks since the Cold War. Riyadh is floating a formal non-aggression pact between Gulf…