Fire after air strike at an oil storage facility in Tehran Less than three weeks into the aggression against Iran since February 28, which the US President Donald Trump called a “little excursion”, the war is assuming a scenario that is the exact opposite of what he visualised. On Tuesday, Trump declared, “We will leave …
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Iran’s new Leader Ayatollah Seyyed Mojtaba Khamenei (File photo) The stunning message from the first public message on Thursday by Iran’s new Leader, Ayatollah Seyyed Mojtaba Khamenei is that “The Strait of Hormuz must remain closed.” In seven words, he threw the gauntlet at President Trump belying all expectations that he will opt for continuity …
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The US President Donald Trump (R) met with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu at the White House, February 11, 2026 Picking up the threads from where I last wrote on the US-Iran negotiations a week ago in my blog titled Odds are 8-1 Trump won’t start a Gulf war, the talks beginning in Geneva today …
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 …
The deployment of the USS Gerald R Ford carrier group marks a significant escalation with Venezuela (File photo) The iconic figure in contemporary American journalism Tucker Carlson said earlier today in the famous podcast Judging Freedom hosted by Judge Andrew Napolitano that US President Donald Trump will declare war on Venezuela in a speech scheduled …
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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 …
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An American F-35 flies over Russia’s fifth generation Su-57E fighter jet, Aero India 2025, Bengaluru, India, February 13, 2025 Well-known author, fund manager and columnist for the Financial Times Ruchir Sharma wrote this week that the perception that the US President Donald Trump’s gambit with tariffs would have grave consequences have not really been borne …
America’s peacemaking president Donald Trump emerges out of White House after wrapping up a ceasefire in the war in West Asia, heading for the Netherlands for the 2025 NATO Summit that marks a consolidation of the western alliance system under US leadership, Washington, DC, June 23, 2025 Trump won’t brook opposition to peace talks with …
Russian President Vladimir Putin (3rd from left on top) met with heads of international news agencies, St. Petersburg, June 19, 2025 Putin in reflective mood muses on US-Iran confrontation The US President Donald Trump who sought President Vladimir Putin’s active help a fortnight ago to mediate in the negotiations over Iran nuclear issue has …
Scene of an apartment building destroyed by an Iranian ballistic missile impact, Bat Yam, Israel, June 15, 2025 Netanyahu’s war on Iran has no future An unnoticed undercurrent of the Israel-Iran war is that three Christian nations in Europe — UK, France and Germany — have joined the fray with alacrity on the side …
