One week into the US-Israeli campaign against Iran, Europe insists it is not a party to the conflict. Alliance structures, energy exposure, and Iranian warnings suggest the distinction is harder to hold than it looks.
Geopolitics & Conflict News & AnalysisThe IRGC was created to serve the revolution, not the nation. Four decades later, it has become a state within a state , economically powerful, ideologically entrenched, and the central target in the current military conflict.
Geopolitics & Conflict News & AnalysisAustralia, Indonesia, France, and the UK are restricting teenagers' access to social media. The concern is real, but the laws face enforcement problems that no country has solved yet.
Digital Privacy News & AnalysisIn 1894, France convicted an innocent man of treason in four minutes. It then spent twelve years forging evidence, suppressing the truth, and acquitting the actual spy. The Dreyfus Affair remains a case study in institutional self-preservation.
History Revisionist DebatesPakistan spent weeks warming up to Trump. Then the US-Israeli campaign against Iran began. Now Islamabad faces a dilemma it did not choose, with no clean option in sight.
Geopolitics & Conflict News & AnalysisWestern governments don't apply consistent humanitarian standards across conflicts. This isn't a bug in the system. It's the system doing what it was designed to do.
Geopolitics & Conflict OpinionTwo armies are harder to beat than one. The logic of military alliances is simple, but the practice is messy. Trust, burden-sharing, and the risk of entanglement have shaped collective defense from the ancient world to NATO.
Explainers Geopolitics & ConflictOn January 15, 1919, a tank holding 2.3 million gallons of industrial molasses collapsed in Boston's North End, killing 21 people. The company blamed anarchists. The Great Molasses Flood trial proved otherwise.
Forgotten Episodes HistoryLebanon ordered Hezbollah to disarm after rockets broke a 15-month ceasefire with Israel, triggering airstrikes that killed at least 31 people. It is the government's most assertive move against the group in decades.
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