sanctions
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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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The Limits of Regime Change in a Hardened State
Manufactured internal dissent, external pressure, and the endurance of a layered Iranian political order The demand for regime change in Iran has become a litmus test for political coherence in the present international order. Advocacy for the overthrow of the Iranian state, when detached from the material balance of power that governs outcomes, functions as… Continue reading
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Power Without Restraint in Defence of Dollar Primacy
Resource control, dollar primacy, and the costs of discarding realism The recent pattern of United States behaviour towards Venezuela, Cuba, Colombia, Iran, and even Greenland reflects a continuity in coercive statecraft rooted in resource control, financial dominance, and regime pressure rather than isolated rhetorical excess. The kidnapping of Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro, described in United… 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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Jeffrey Sachs and the Venezuela Question Before the Security Council
Venezuela as a test case for the post-1945 international framework and institutional decay The address delivered by Jeffrey D. Sachs to the United Nations Security Council on 5 January 2026 placed before the council a narrow legal and institutional question rather than a moral judgement on Venezuela’s domestic politics. The matter concerned whether a single… 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
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Maduro Removal In Defence of the Petrodollar System and Energy Dominance
How energy control sustains petrodollar power against multipolar challengers, China, Russia, BRICS expansion, and alternative payment systems The removal of Venezuela’s head of state formed part of a broader contest over the architecture of global payments, energy settlement, and monetary hierarchy. The operation did not arise from humanitarian urgency, democratic reform, or governance failure. Strategic… Continue reading
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Trump Abducts Maduro Normalising An Extraterritorial Regime Change by Force
Legal Violations, Strategic Motives, and the Consequences for Global Order Reports circulating across diplomatic, military, and media channels allege that the sitting president of Venezuela, Nicolás Maduro, was seized by United States forces during a covert military operation inside Venezuelan territory and removed from the country without the consent of its government or legislature. No… Continue reading
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The balance of power shifts as Asia consolidates economic dominance
Shifting great power relations, Asia’s strategic choices could reset the global order next year Asia approaches 2026 holding decisive economic and political weight that no previous period has combined so fully. Purchasing power parity data from the International Monetary Fund places Asia at roughly half of global output, while the United States accounts for about… Continue reading
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US Weaponising Sanctions to Seize and Reassign Russian Assets
A sanctions regime engineered to force the transfer of strategic Russian energy infrastructure to US-aligned interests The United States has long used economic instruments as instruments of statecraft, but recent actions around Russian energy firms show a pattern that extends beyond mere pressure to shape political outcomes. The sequence of measures taken against Lukoil and… Continue reading
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