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Brazil Calls for Defence Co-operation with South Africa
Lula and Ramaphosa reflect a growing unease across the Global South after Western military actions in Venezuela and Iran, reinforcing fears that states outside major alliance systems remain vulnerable to coercion and intervention. Brazil’s President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva used the recent visit of South African President Cyril Ramaphosa to Brasília to articulate a… Continue reading
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Iran is Resisting the “Epstein”Digital Monetary Order
Iran’s monetary independence’s refusal to submit to digital monetary surveillance and centralised financial control tyranny as the underlying driver of the war The sustained pressure applied against Iran over recent decades reflects a structural conflict over monetary sovereignty rather than episodic disputes over security or ideology. Examination of intervention patterns since the late twentieth century… Continue reading
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Convergence in the Persian Gulf
Convergence among Iran, China, and Russia in the Strait of Hormuz alters American risk calculations, though it does not remove the structural capacity of the United States to initiate military action. American primacy in the Strait of Hormuz rests upon a maritime doctrine shaped by Alfred Thayer Mahan’s classic argument that control of sea lanes… Continue reading
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BRICS needs strategic maritime cooperation – Putin aide
Why BRICS is moving toward maritime cooperation and why it has not become a military alliance Cooperation between the navies of member countries would help protect sea lanes, Nikolay Patrushev has said,speaking to Argumenty i Fakty (meaning “arguements and facts” ), a Russian weekly newspaper. ‘Our key task is building a multipolar order at sea.… Continue reading
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Marco Declares Colonialist War on the Global South
Marco Rubio’s Munich Declaration of Colonial Revivalism amid the Crisis of Western Primacy and the Rise of the Global South Marco Rubio used the Munich Security Conference to present a civilisational argument grounded in imperial expansion and Western dominance. He declared that “for five centuries, before the end of the Second World War, the West… Continue reading
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Russian Foreign Policy in a Fragmenting OrderLavrov at the State Duma and the Structure of Multipolar PowerInstitutional Continuity under Strategic Pressure
An opinion analysis of Russia’s systemic positioning amid global realignmentSecurity, law, and sovereignty in contemporary Russian diplomacy Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov used the State Duma hearing to present a coherent account of Russian foreign policy under conditions described as structural change rather than episodic crisis. The remarks framed current conflicts as consequences of an exhausted… Continue reading
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Red Lines and Hard Choices of the US-Iran Standoff
Why the US-Iran Impasse Matters to Global Order The standoff between the United States and Iran marks a clear deadlock over sovereignty, military deterrence, and regional power. Recent indirect negotiations in Muscat between U.S. envoys and Iranian officials produced little progress, showing that the parties’ red lines remain firmly inplacer. Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi… Continue reading
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Trump’s Tariffs Backfired and Weakened Economic Power
The Burdem of United States Trade Policy Failure Fell on American Consumers, Firms, Allies, and Markets The reintroduction and expansion of United States tariffs under the Trump administration formed the centrepiece of a strategy publicly presented as economic nationalism, strategic leverage, and industrial revival. The policy failed on each stated objective while imposing measurable domestic… Continue reading
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Brazil’s Venezuela Veto: A Strategic Miscalculation in face of the U.S. Security Pivot
How blocking Venezuela reshaped BRICS cohesion and weakened Brazil’s strategic position amid renewed U.S. regional dominance The decision by Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva to veto Venezuela’s accession to BRICS occurred during a period when United States strategic doctrine had already shifted back toward hemispheric control. Senior figures within United States defence planning circles had… Continue reading
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Oil or Silver: The Real Stakes Behind Maduro’s Removal
JPMorgan bank, physical silver, and the geopolitical logic of Venezuela intervention points to China The removal of Venezuela’s head of state coincided with acute stress inside the global silver market and with mounting exposure among Western financial institutions heavily reliant on synthetic precious metals trading. The alignment of these events places silver, rather than oil… Continue reading
