Venezuela is not about drugs or migration. It is Trump’s ‘Ukraine moment’

A satellite photo released by the Chinese private aerospace intelligence firm MizarVision showed a fleet of U.S. F-35 fighter jets at Jose Aponte de la Torre Airport, Puerto Rico, Dec. 25, 2025. The Pentagon has deployed special operations aircraft, troops and equipment to the Caribbean region near Venezuela, The Wall Street Journal and other media …

Latin America’s putative swing to the right is in sync with Trump’s hemispheric security strategy

A far-right supporter wearing an Augusto Pinochet pin at a campaign closing rally in the presidential election in Santiago, Chile In jubilation, when news reached him from Lima that arch-conservative candidate José Antonio Kast had emerged victorious in Chile’s presidential election, Argentina’s right wing president Javier Milei posted a map of South America on X …

What’s on Trump’s mind as US adjusts to multipolarity

The world order’s transformation to multipolarity is a work in progress with the variables at work, but its outcome will be largely determined by the alignment of the three big powers — the United States, Russia and China. Historically, the ‘triangle’ appeared as the lid came off the Sino-Soviet schism in the 1960s and a …

Russia & India Rewrite Global Trade

M. K. Bhadrakumar was an Indian ambassador and diplomat for decades. Ambassador Bhadrakumar discusses the historic meeting between Russia and India, which aims to rewrite global trade with Prof. Glen Diesen, Norwegian political scientist, commentator and politician currently a professor at the Department of Business, History and Social Sciences, University of South-Eastern Norway. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3-uVMN-SYxY