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The West’s Strategic Blind Spot: Why Has Democratic Cohesion Become a Geopolitical Asset?
For much of modern history, geopolitics was mainly understood through the language of power. The relative strength of states rested on military capability, industrial capacity and technological innovation, as well as economic performance and diplomatic influence. While that logic remains an indispensable analytical framework, it is no longer sufficient on its own. Today, a…
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Did Trump Just Rebuild the Deal He Destroyed?
Eight years of maximum pressure, a war, and a dead supreme leader later, Washington’s framework with Iran looks a lot like the deal it walked away from in 2018. Did Trump just rebuild the deal he destroyed? On June 14, 2026, Donald Trump signed a 14-point Memorandum of Understanding with…
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Does America Have a Presidential Ethics Crisis?
The Pentagon’s $9.7 billion Dell contract is not, at its core, a story about corruption. It is a story about structural transformation—about how the ethical firewall separating public office from private wealth in the United States has been quietly dismantled, not by statute but by normalization. When a sitting president…
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How does the US–Israel Alliance Sustain American Influence in the Middle East?
To the casual observer, the foreign policy of major powers often appears guided by humanitarian concern, democratic values, and global stability. Yet a closer examination of international politics suggests that these narratives frequently coexist with, and sometimes obscure, deeper strategic calculations. In the case of the United States and Israel,…
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Do Trump’s Actions in Venezuela Signify the Decline of International Law?
On the 3rd of January 2026, the US conducted military strikes on the Venezuelan capital of Caracas, after rising tensions between the two countries since President Trump’s inauguration in 2024. Alongside these strikes, US forces also captured and arrested the Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro on charges of narco-terrorism and enabling…