A former senior aide to President Donald Trump has issued a pointed warning that a US-China “G2” world order would amount to a “dangerous sidelining” of India, reigniting a debate that has simmered in New Delhi since Trump first floated the framework during his Busan summit with Chinese President Xi Jinping. The warning, attributed to…

A rare public rift between Washington and Jerusalem broke into the open Thursday after US Vice President JD Vance directly rebuked members of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s cabinet for attacking the emerging US-Iran agreement, warning that Israel risks alienating the one power still willing to stand behind it. The remarks, delivered at a White…

A memorandum of understanding meant to end nearly four months of war and finally reopen the Strait of Hormuz is scheduled for signature on June 19. But with the ink not yet dry, Iran’s Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi has issued a pointed warning: the US-Iran agreement is conditional, fragile, and could collapse if Israel does…

The relationship between Donald Trump and Benjamin Netanyahu forged through years of mutual political benefit and publicly performed alliance cracked open on June 7, 2026 in a way that neither leader can easily paper over. Speaking to the Financial Times roughly an hour after urging Netanyahu not to retaliate against a fresh Iranian ballistic missile…

President Donald Trump seriously considered sending US special forces into Iran to physically retrieve the country’s stockpile of highly enriched uranium a mission so operationally complex and geopolitically explosive that he ultimately stepped back from it, choosing diplomacy over direct action. The plan, now publicly reported by Axios and the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists,…

While the world watches missile trajectories and oil price tickers, a different kind of operation is quietly taking shape inside the West Wing. Sources familiar with internal White House deliberations describe a classified strategic framework internally code-named “Project Freedom“ designed not to escalate the US-Iran standoff, but to surgically neutralize Iran’s ability to hold the…

It was described by US officials as one of the worst phone calls between Donald Trump and Benjamin Netanyahu since Trump returned to office. According to multiple sources cited by Axios and The Times of Israel, the call on June 1-2, 2026 opened with Trump demanding to know “What the fuck are you doing?” and…

President Donald Trump started a war with Iran to strip the regime of its nuclear capabilities, strangle its military, and reopen the Strait of Hormuz on American terms. Now, as the White House edges toward a peace deal, a growing faction of Republican hawks is sounding a very different alarm not that the war is…

The cracks inside the Republican Party were always there. Now, with the United States locked in a grinding military conflict against Iran and the Strait of Hormuz blockaded for nearly three months, those cracks have split wide open threatening to reshape the political landscape of the war and President Donald Trump’s grip on his own…

Eighty-two days into the US-Iran War, with the Strait of Hormuz still closed, ceasefire negotiations stalled in Rome, and a Situation Room meeting convened to review military options, Donald Trump delivered one of his most unexpectedly human assessments of the Iran issue to date. “This is not good timing for me. I have a thing…