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Iran Rejects Ceasefire Demands Permanent End to War and External Pressure
Iranian leadership argues that temporary truces only preserve the strategic conditions that have produced decades of confrontation since the 1979 revolution. Iranian refusal to accept a temporary ceasefire reflects a strategic calculation rooted in the historical pattern of hostilities directed against the Islamic Republic since the 1979 revolution. Tehran frames the current confrontation as the… Continue reading
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Africa’s Silent Recolonisation: Debt, Deindustrialisation and the Net Zero Agenda
How net zero climate-linked debt, collapsing grids and external mandates are African states into managed decline and dependence Access to abundant and affordable energy underpins every stage of economic development. African governments that attempt to industrialise without reliable baseload power expose themselves to stagnation, dependence, and political manipulation. External actors promoting net-zero targets in Africa… Continue reading
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Sudan Burns whilst the World Watches
The UAE’s money, Western weapons, and the world’s indifference fuelled a genocide in Sudan. Global GeoPolitics If you believe journalism should serve the public, not the powerful, and you’re in a position to help, becoming a PAID SUBSCRIBER truly makes a difference. Alternatively you can support by way of a cup of coffee: buymeacoffee.com/ggtv |… Continue reading
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Ghalibaf for Dummies: Understanding His Latest X Post
Ghalibaf’s “Schrödinger’s Empire”: Why Iran May Hold the Strategic Lever in the Strait of Hormuz General Article | September 2026 In his latest post, Mohammad Bagher Ghalibaf uses the idea of Schrödinger’s cat to describe the current situation between the United States and Iran. Schrödinger’s famous thought experiment describes a cat inside a sealed box.… Continue reading
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The Lemon on a Stick: Saudi Arabia’s Structural Weakness and the Case for a Saudi-First Strategy
Why a kingdom that spends $83 billion on its military cannot defend its own oil infrastructure, and why the only rational course is to put its own house in order before it is too late Editorial Analysis | September 2026 The assessment that Saudi Arabia appears as weak and confused as any country in the… Continue reading
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The Energy Shock That Washington Pretended Wasn’t Happening
How the suppression of price signals turned a supply disruption into a systemic crisis, and why the costs are being borne by those who had no part in creating it Editorial Analysis | September 2026 The war that began on 28 February 2026 with joint United States and Israeli strikes on Tehran and several other… Continue reading
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The Boomerang of Impunity
Netanyahu’s Citizenship Threat, the Collapse of Cultural Silence and the Accelerating Shift Against Israeli Power General Article | September 2026 Benjamin Netanyahu stated in a video address that he would advance two bills aimed at those causing “immense damage” to the Israel Defense Forces. The first would enable revocation of citizenship for anyone who defames… Continue reading
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The Arithmetic of Attrition in Ukraine’s Manpower
Official Admissions, Divergent Casualty Claims and the Strategic Limits of Ukraine’s Manpower Base General Article | September 2026 General Article | September 2026 In late August 2026 Kyrylo Budanov told a national telethon audience that Ukraine could not mobilise fewer than 30,000 people each month if it wished to preserve the current disposition of its… Continue reading
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The Empire That Would Rather Burn Itself Than Share the World
An independent analysis of the 1992 Wolfowitz Doctrine, the RAND multi-domain strategy, and the structural reasons why a declining hegemon may attempt to topple the game board rather than accept a multipolar world Editorial Analysis | September 2026 The 1992 Defense Planning Guidance, drafted under the supervision of Paul Wolfowitz and leaked to the New… Continue reading
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Yemen Just Changed the Rules of the War
Yemen’s Defense Minister Just Put Riyadh, Abu Dhabi, and Manama on Notice Editorial Analysis | September 2026 The statement by Major General Mohammed Nasser al-Atifi that the next battle will not remain in Yemen but will penetrate deep into the territories of the aggressor coalition nations was not an isolated rhetorical flourish from a marginal… Continue reading
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America Pulled Out of Two Arms Treaties. It Backfired Spectacularly.
An independent analysis of how the United States dismantled the ABM and INF treaties, why the resulting weapons systems have failed to restore strategic advantage, and what the production disparities reveal about the class interests driving American militarism Editorial Analysis | September 2026 America Pulled Out of Two Arms Treaties. It Backfired Spectacularly. An independent… Continue reading
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The Brookings Repertoire and the Manufacture of the Iran War
An independent analysis of the strategic repertoire that produced the 2026 Iran war, the institutional networks that sustained it across seventeen years, and the material contradictions that now threaten its architects Editorial Analysis | September 2026 Crafting a durable policy toward the Islamic Republic of Iran has confounded every American administration since the revolution of… Continue reading
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Order Out of Chaos: The Architecture of Permanent Conflict
An independent analysis of the post-9/11 order, its institutional drivers, and the material consequences of hegemonic overreach Editorial Analysis | September 2026 The comment that Benjamin Netanyahu made on the evening of 11 September 2001, when asked by the New York Times what the attacks meant for relations between the United States and Israel, has… Continue reading
