Russia – GLOBAL MACRO INSIGHTS

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...

The Great Surrender: How the West Sold Out Ukraine

Washington and Moscow are inching towards a deal to “end” the war in Ukraine, a plan that would see Russia formally keep the territory it...

Washington’s Generous Talk and Its Convenient Amnesia

Just as Ukraine faces its most intense wave of Russian missile and drone strikes to date, the Trump administration has—how timely—suspended deliveries of essential military...

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