The US issued a 30-day waiver letting anyone buy Russian oil stranded at sea. Moscow was already earning an extra $150 million a day from the Iran war’s price surge. Six of seven G7 nations oppose the move.
Geopolitics & Conflict News & AnalysisUkraine’s defense production capacity grew from $1 billion to $50 billion in four years. Now Gulf states and the US are calling, seeking battlefield-tested drone interceptors that cost less than a smartphone.
Geopolitics & Conflict News & AnalysisThe US has moved one-third of its naval fleet to the Middle East. The munitions being consumed will take years to replace. China is watching, learning, and building.
Geopolitics & Conflict News & AnalysisCuba confirmed talks with the Trump administration for the first time. A three-month fuel blockade and 64% blackouts forced the acknowledgment Havana spent months denying.
Geopolitics & Conflict News & AnalysisIran’s new supreme leader vows to keep the Strait of Hormuz closed. Twenty percent of global oil transits a 33-kilometer channel. The geography, the history, and the military reality.
Evergreen Geopolitics & ConflictRussia has struck Ukraine’s energy infrastructure more than 250 times since October 2025, damaging every thermal power plant in the country. Western aid and continuous repairs are all that stand between the Ukraine power grid and total collapse.
Geopolitics & Conflict News & AnalysisChina’s National People’s Congress passed an ethnic unity law mandating Mandarin-only instruction from preschool and requiring parents to teach children to love the Communist Party. It codifies what was already being enforced.
Geopolitics & Conflict News & AnalysisEkrem Imamoglu, Erdogan’s main electoral rival, faces corruption charges widely denounced as political. The Imamoglu trial is the sharpest test yet of Turkish democracy, and of what NATO tolerates in its members.
Geopolitics & Conflict News & AnalysisMojtaba Khamenei, the 56-year-old son of the late Ali Khamenei, is now Iran’s supreme leader, appointed mid-war, after a contested succession backed by the IRGC. Here is what his background reveals about what comes next.
Geopolitics & Conflict News & AnalysisOil crossed $100 per barrel this week for the first time since 2022. The oil price shock from the Iran war is cascading through global supply chains, central bank calculations, and geopolitical alignments simultaneously.
Geopolitics & Conflict News & AnalysisOne 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.
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