United States foreign policy
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Do Not Underestimate the United States (Editorial Version)
An analytical examination of the US blockade on Iran, the systematic disruption of energy flows to Asia, and the long-term campaign to isolate China The United States Navy’s deployment of FA-18 Super Hornets to conduct strafing attacks against Iranian commercial tankers in the Gulf of Oman on 6 and 8 May 2026, three vessels targeted,… Continue reading
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Do Not Underestimate the United States (Long Version)
Why the United States Seeks Control of Supply Routes Rather Than Conventional Victory American power has repeatedly been misread during prolonged geopolitical confrontations because commentators continue measuring strategic success through the narrow lens of immediate battlefield outcomes rather than through cumulative institutional, economic, and infrastructural transformation across decades. Independent geopolitical analyst Brian Berletic argued during… Continue reading
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The Choke Point Doctrine
How American economic and military pressure now targets the Strait of Hormuz, the Strait of Malacca, the Panama Canal, the Suez Canal, the Strait of Gibraltar, and the Arctic passages The headline video below is circulating on social media under the title “It’s Not Chaos. It’s The Blueprint” argues that the seemingly disconnected crises in… Continue reading
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The Unipolar Machine: A Geopolitical Analysis of the United States Senate Hearing on Indo-Pacific Command, April 2026
How a United States Senate hearing revealed the machinery of permanent war, energy blackmail, the consumption of proxies and the making of a new Asian front For most people who follow international affairs, the daily news cycle provides a sense of orientation. Headlines announce wars, peace talks, diplomatic summits, and military mobilisations. Politicians stand behind… Continue reading
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A Division of Labour in WarA Division of Labour in War
The Transfer of Strategic Burden from Washington to Europe in the Ukraine Conflict The Ukraine conflict has entered a phase in which military attrition matters less than institutional transfer. Washington no longer behaves as a state attempting to terminate a costly war through settlement. It behaves as a system reallocating operational responsibility to subordinate allies… Continue reading
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Iran Emerges as a Global Power
How Tehran Forced a Trans-national Owned Superpower To Retreat and Reshaped the Global Economy The war ended, fingers crossed, at the point where the United States accepted conditions it had rejected for four decades, and that moment marked a structural break rather than a negotiated settlement. Washington agreed to terms that reversed its established position… Continue reading
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A Gulf Billionaire Rebuked a U.S. Senator
Khalaf Ahmad Al Habtoor’s blunt response to Lindsey Graham’s call for war exposed tensions in the Gulf–U.S. alliance and raised uncomfortable questions about power, interests, and who pays the price for conflict. The exchange between U.S. Senator Lindsey Graham and Emirati businessman Khalaf Ahmad Al Habtoor unfolded like a small but revealing moment in the… Continue reading
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The Total Financial Subjugation of Iraq After 2003 by the United States
Why Iraq Governs Without Access to Its Own Income via an External U.S Banking Authority The United States exercises decisive control over Iraq through financial mechanisms established after the 2003 invasion, rather than through formal colonial administration or direct ownership of physical resources, a system Hussein Askary has described as “a complete financial and economic… Continue reading
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The Iran Deal That Was Deliberately Broken
How Abandoning the JCPOA Removed Containment To Make Way For Confrontation For several years, Donald Trump has repeatedly insisted that Iran must “make a deal,” but his most recent demand has been framed with unusual urgency. He has publicly declared that Iran has until today to comply, warning of severe consequences if it does not.… Continue reading
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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
