Tag: Geopolitics
Iran Rejects Oman’s Hormuz Strait Plan
Iran's Deputy Foreign Minister Kazem Gharibabadi rejected Oman's proposal for joint management of the Strait of Hormuz, saying on Iranian state television that it failed to address Tehran's security concerns, according to IranWire. Oman had proposed splitting the shipping lane evenly, with half under Iranian control and half under Omani…
Intelligence Rearmament Spreads as States Prepare for Conflict
Sweden is creating an independent civilian foreign intelligence service. Japan is establishing a central intelligence bureau and proposing its first standalone postwar foreign-intelligence agency. Germany is debating powers that could take its foreign intelligence agency beyond gathering information and into sabotage, cyber disruption and, only in a constitutionally declared state…
Zelenskyy Presses for Patriots as Pentagon Aid Stalls
President Volodymyr Zelenskyy met President Donald Trump at the White House on Tuesday to push for Patriot interceptors and diplomacy, even as the administration, according to Kyiv Post, has told Congress it will not finish spending $400 million in already-approved Ukraine aid until fiscal year 2029. Zelenskyy called the sit-down…
How Turkey Builds Power Through Africa
Turkey's growing presence in Africa is often described as another foreign power crowding onto a busy continent. That understates what Ankara is doing. Africa has become the proving ground for Turkey's emergence as a consequential middle power – a state without the global resources of the United States or China,…
Russia Gains From Iran War Without Fighting
Russia's Kremlin spokesman, Dmitry Peskov, offered perhaps the clearest insight into Moscow's thinking from a podium rather than a battlefield. Briefing reporters on July 15, Peskov said the Kremlin was watching Washington's growing preoccupation with the war against Iran, suggesting the conflict had inevitably shifted American attention away from Ukraine.…
Trump Presses Netanyahu as Doctrines Collide
President Trump's call urging Prime Minister Netanyahu to withdraw forces from Syria and Lebanon reads less like a request than a rebuke, exposing a strategy Israel seems intent on locking in place, according to Axios.Netanyahu's insistence on "security zones" is not merely defensive. With elections three months away and his…
