regional security
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Leaked documents, diplomatic activism, and conflict-zone reporting challenge the narrative of UAE’s supposed neutral modernity. (In this featured 2012 private jet photo, Azizah Al-Ahmadi (blue), identified as sending a piece of the Kaaba’s Kiswah to Epstein, appears alongside Emirati diplomat Hind Al-Owais (red), referenced in DOJ-released emails. The Kiswah was later photographed laid out on… Continue reading
AI and Digital Control, America, economics, Energy, EUROPE, Financial markets, Foreign Policy, Geopolitics, Global Finance, israel, middle east, NATO, politics, warAbraham Accords, diplomatic leaks, elite power structures, Geopolitics, Hind Al-Owais, Horn of Africa, human rights, Islamophobia debate, Israel-UAE relations, Jeffrey Epstein files, Kiswah controversy, Libya civil war, Middle East politics, mineral geopolitics, political Islam, Qatar blockade, regional security, soft power, strategic alignment, Sudan conflict, transnational influence networks, UAE foreign policy, United Arab Emirates, Western alliances, Yemen war -
Leaked documents, diplomatic activism, and conflict-zone reporting challenge the narrative of UAE’s supposed neutral modernity. (In this featured 2012 private jet photo, Azizah Al-Ahmadi (blue), identified as sending a piece of the Kaaba’s Kiswah to Epstein, appears alongside Emirati diplomat Hind Al-Owais (red), referenced in DOJ-released emails. The Kiswah was later photographed laid out on… Continue reading
AI and Digital Control, America, economics, Energy, EUROPE, Financial markets, Foreign Policy, Geopolitics, Global Finance, israel, middle east, NATO, politics, warAbraham Accords, diplomatic leaks, elite power structures, Geopolitics, Hind Al-Owais, Horn of Africa, human rights, Islamophobia debate, Israel-UAE relations, Jeffrey Epstein files, Kiswah controversy, Libya civil war, Middle East politics, mineral geopolitics, political Islam, Qatar blockade, regional security, soft power, strategic alignment, Sudan conflict, transnational influence networks, UAE foreign policy, United Arab Emirates, Western alliances, Yemen war -
Trump’s Dilemma – Iran is not blinking
Balancing Oil, Markets, and Military Strategy in the Face of Iranian Defiance President Trump faces a narrowing set of options over Iran as economic exposure, regional military realities, domestic political pressure, and an emerging credibility problem increasingly overlap. Alongside military and economic constraints, the sudden resurgence of the Epstein files across global media platforms has… Continue reading
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China’s Military Shake-Up
Understanding Xi Jinping’s balancing of loyalty, competence, and institutional stability in China’s armed forces, within the context of governance and national development The investigation and removal of General Zhang Youxia, one of the most senior officers in the People’s Liberation Army and vice-chairman of China’s Central Military Commission (CMC), marks an event of deep significance… Continue reading
anti-corruption campaign, Central Military Commission, centralisation, China, Chinese governance, Chinese political system, competence, corruption, cross-strait relations, economic development, international relations, leadership consolidation, loyalty, military purge, military readiness, People’s Liberation Army, PLA, poverty alleviation, regional security, strategic planning, taiwan, Xi Jinping, Zhang Youxia -
The Persistence of an Unwinnable War
U.S.–Israeli Strategy Has Strengthened the Adversary It Sought to Break and Why Another War Is Likely to Reproduce Past Failures The current phase of confrontation unfolds amid an unprecedented concentration of military and naval forces across the Middle East, creating conditions widely recognised by defence analysts as consistent with imminent large scale conflict. Naval strike… Continue reading
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Tensions Surge in the Middle East: US-Iran Conflict Looms
As Military Forces Mobilize and Diplomatic Channels Fray, Experts Warn a Major Confrontation May Be Imminent. In recent reports, the situation in the Middle East has escalated to a point where military conflict between the United States and Iran appears increasingly imminent. Various outlets, including Reuters and CBS, have reported that the U.S. may be… Continue reading
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Iran Holds: What Follows the Collapse of the Street Strategy
How economic warfare, intelligence operations, and deterrence shift after regime survival As the violence subsided and funerals replaced street clashes, casualty data began to undermine the dominant external narrative surrounding the unrest. Official death tallies released by Iranian authorities showed that a clear majority of those killed were neither demonstrators nor participants in protest activity.… 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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Saudi Arabia and the UAE Break Ranks in Yemen
How Saudi airstrikes on Emirati-linked arms exposed a quiet war inside the war The Saudi airstrike on Mukalla port at the end of December marked a rupture that had been forming inside the anti-Houthi camp for several years, though rarely acknowledged in public. The destruction of an Emirati-linked weapons shipment destined for the Southern Transitional… Continue reading
