Frozen Continent, Bought Fire: How Europe Paid for Its Own Gas Delusion
American natural gas has just punched through the $6 mark for the first time since 2022. A polar blast swept across the United States, froze...
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Peace by Dismemberment: The West’s New Ukraine Doctrine
A 28-point “peace plan” drafted by American and Russian envoys would require Ukraine to surrender vast swathes of territory currently occupied by Russia, cap the...
China’s Gold Play: How Bullion Helps Beijing Needle Trump—and the Dollar
The blistering rally in gold is nudging China a little closer to its long-stated ambition: a world less tethered to US-centred finance.Beijing has been stockpiling...
Trump’s Ukraine Flip: Europe Gets the War, Moscow Gets the Leverage
As Ukraine and its allies tried to digest Donald Trump’s latest volte-face, this time a sudden burst of optimism about Kyiv’s chances against Russia, it...
Putin Turns Up the Heat on Kyiv as Trump Sits on His Hands
Vladimir Putin has apparently decided that escalating the war is the surest way to force Ukraine to the negotiating table, on his terms, and that...
How Xi and Putin Redrew the Energy Map
Donald Trump swept back into the Oval Office, promising “American energy dominance.” What he delivered instead was a circus: photo ops, tariff tantrums, and Truth...
Trump’s Tariffs Push Modi Into Xi and Putin’s Arms
It took Donald Trump’s second coming to achieve what years of border clashes, diplomatic frigidity, and mutual suspicion could not: a strategic rapprochement between India...
Trump, Zelenskiy and Europe’s Theatre of Capitulation
Volodymyr Zelenskiy has learned the art of survival in Washington: flattery, wardrobe adjustments, and a carefully rehearsed humility. Gone are the days of military fatigues...
How to Lose Allies and Strengthen Rivals – The Washington Way
Still nursing the bruises from Donald Trump’s 50% tariffs, India has arrived at a fresh, bitter conclusion: the American president seems perfectly happy to rough...