How The US-Saudi Nuclear Deal Could Ignite A Middle East Arms Race – Analysis
By Vivek Mishra and Surya Prakash Noutiyal Key Takeaways: A 123 deal, not the UAE “gold standard.” Signed 22 July 2026, the 30-year U.S.–Saudi civil nuclear pact (Atomic Energy Act §123) can move...
View ArticleIs Iran’s Pickaxe Mountain Beyond The Reach Of US Bunker-Busters? – Analysis
By Jonathan Gornall Key Takeaways: The site left off last year’s list. After U.S.–Israeli strikes on Natanz, Fordow, Isfahan, and Arak (13–24 June 2025; Trump hailed Midnight Hammer on 25 June),...
View ArticleWhy Trump Sees An AI Slowdown As A Strategic Mistake – Analysis
Key Takeaways: Labs want brakes; the White House does not. The author calls industry pleas to slow frontier AI “strange yet overblown”: Amodei, Altman, Musk, and ex-Anthropic researcher Jacob Coxon...
View ArticleFive Years Of Civil War In Myanmar: A Nation Adrift In Crisis – Analysis
Key Takeaways: Five years after the coup. The Tatmadaw seized power on 1 February 2021; by early 2026 monitors put junta control below 40% of townships. The Arakan Army holds about 70% of Rakhine (14...
View ArticleTrump Signs Russia-Iran Sanctions Bill, Putting New Pressure Tools At His...
By Alex Raufoglu Key Takeaways: Signed, not automatic. On 18 Sept Trump enacted H.R. 5334, the Lindsey O. Graham Sanctioning Russia and Iran Act of 2026 (Senate 86–11 in August; House 262–159 on 16...
View ArticleDenmark Hails ‘Binding’ Greenland Deal With Trump
Key Takeaways: Trump’s “infinite” security writ. On Saturday he said a deal with Denmark and Greenland gives the U.S. “permanent control over security and all other needs” in Greenland—an “‘Infinite...
View ArticlePanama Strengthens Maritime, Border, And Cybersecurity Capabilities With US...
By Lorena Baires Key Takeaways: $5 million kit in June. The U.S. gave SENAFRONT and SENAN refrigerated trucks, mobile workshops, two RHIBs, a nav system, generator parts, 400 comms sets, and cyber...
View ArticleThe Race To Build A Pandemic-Proof World
By Daniel Dickinson Key Takeaways: The bill from COVID. WHO: more than 7 million lives lost. Guterres called the response “human ingenuity and human failure”—vaccines at record speed, care and shots...
View ArticleThe Fundamental Theses For Revising The Albanian Strategy Amid The...
Key Takeaways: From consumer to provider. Building on Jakub Grygiel’s five U.S. choices for Europe, the author says Albania and Kosovo can no longer treat NATO and Washington as a fixed shield; allies...
View ArticleTestosterone Screening For 2M Troops Comes With No Cost Estimate
By Brett Rowland Key Takeaways: No price tag. Screening is ordered for ~2 million troops age 30-plus. DHA guidance says how many will be tested or treated is “not currently known.” The Center Square...
View ArticleGhana Takes Action As Russia Uses Young People For ‘Cannon Fodder’
Key Takeaways: Ghana’s count. Foreign Minister Samuel Okudzeto Ablakwa told Moscow on 17 August that seven more Ghanaians had died fighting for Russia, bringing deaths to 62, with 15 missing; he had...
View ArticleAhead Of Yom Kippur, U.S. Bishops Highlight ‘Deep Spiritual Bonds’ Between...
By Daniel Payne The U.S. bishops this week underscored the “deep spiritual bonds” between Catholics and Jews and the need to build “genuine friendship and understanding” between the two religious...
View ArticleZhao Ziyang, Zhu Rongji, And The Limits Of The Chinese Market Reform Under...
By Dr. William Hongsong Wang Key Takeaways: Two markets. After Zhu Rongji’s death on 12 August, the author sets him against Zhao Ziyang. Zhu (premier 1998–2003) built markets under a strong...
View ArticleThe Graveyard Of Eastern European Socialism – OpEd
By Dr. Alex Tokarev and Kristin Tokarev Key Takeaways: Shoe, then collapse. The author starts with Khrushchev’s 1960 “we will bury you” and says CMEA (Comecon) after 1945 locked Albania, Bulgaria,...
View ArticleEbola In DRC: The Reality And The Media Hype – OpEd
Key Takeaways: Local, not global. Citing the Ituri Collective, the author says Ebola has caused mostly small DRC outbreaks for 50 years; 2014 West Africa killed ~11,000. This wave: ~1,000 suspected,...
View ArticleIn A Post-Putin Transition, Today’s Tightly Controlled Duma Could Evolve As...
Key Takeaways: Not just a stamp. Aleksey Uvarov (RIDL) says Putin’s Duma is no longer a public fight among regions and ministries, but after February 2022 loyalty is the test and real...
View ArticleCountering Iran’s Endgame – OpEd
By Dr. Abdel Aziz Aluwaisheg Key Takeaways: Hormuz as the prize. Aluwaisheg says the U.S.–Iran war that began 28 Feb is no longer a stalemate: Washington never reopened Hormuz, so Tehran kept its main...
View ArticleBefore Trump Meets Xi, Look At What China Just Gave BRICS – OpEd
Key Takeaways: Two rooms. Xi meets Trump in Washington on 24 Sept over AI cyberattacks and copied models. In New Delhi he offered BRICS an “open-source” zone, a digital cloud, and engineer training....
View ArticleChina’s Two Faces In Philippine Eyes – OpEd
Key Takeaways: Two Chinas in one public. The author, citing Jan Robert R. Go in Fulcrum plus Pernia and Rye, says Filipinos treat Beijing as a West Philippine Sea threat while still using Chinese...
View ArticleStrategic Impact Of Drones On Warfare – OpEd
Key Takeaways: Drones as cheap air power. The author maps ISR, UCAVs, loiterers, FPV, one-way “cruise” drones, swarms/decoys, and EW/relay roles, and says the sensor-to-shooter loop is now minutes....
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