Every election season produces its own cottage industry of speculation. Who will win, who will lose? Who will defect at the last minute. Bangladesh is no exception. What is different this time is not the noise, but the note underneath it—a low, steady hum of disbelief. The question many are now asking, quietly but insistently, [...]

As at the time of writing, representatives from the Trump Administration and the Iranian Foreign Ministry are meeting in Oman to deter US forces from bombing and, or invading Iran. Iran being at their weakest political and military level for five decades are playing for time and need to be flexible and sufficiently compliant to [...]

There is a recurring lesson in political history, one that parties learn too late and nations pay for dearly: dynasties rot faster than institutions. When power becomes inheritance, judgment withers. Bangladesh’s Awami League is now living that lesson in real time, pushed not by external enemies but by the calculated recklessness of Sajeeb Wazed Joy. [...]

There’s something almost quaintly anachronistic about trying to pin down Donald Trump’s foreign policy in formal strategy documents. It’s like attempting to capture lightning in a bureaucratic bottle—the very exercise contradicts the subject. Yet here we are, with two substantial texts laying bare the administration’s worldview: the National Security Strategy from December and the National [...]

Europe, the continent that once assumed peace was permanent, prosperity automatic, and American protection eternal now finds itself exposed—strategically, economically, psychologically. Russian tanks sit uncomfortably close to NATO borders. China is no longer just a market but a competitor, creditor, and coercive power. And the United States, once the unembarrassed guarantor of European security, has [...]

Since Trump reassumed the presidency, the rank and file of the Democrats have been busy criticizing, for good reason, Trump’s unhinged exercise of power. Given Trump’s onslaught on just about every norm of America’s political, cultural, and economic way of life, the Democrats cannot possibly exhaust the range of criticism they can level at Trump [...]

Apparently, the political crisis in Ukraine is becoming intolerable for a large part of the local politicians. In a recent statement, a Ukrainian Member of Parliament (MP) stated that dozens of parliamentarians are about to leave their offices, creating a situation of serious institutional instability in the country. This occurs amidst a moment of particular [...]

Mere days after the US-backed government in Taipei launched the so-called Joint Firepower Coordination Center (JFCC), defined as “an enhanced firepower coordination effort in close cooperation with the United States”, multirole sources have confirmed that the Chinese breakaway island province of Taiwan is deploying the overhyped and exorbitantly overpriced M142 HIMARS MLRS (multiple launch rocket system) to the [...]

Among the many revelations brought by the Epstein files recently released, one has been overlooked, if not almost entirely ignored. Buried amid many sordid sex-trafficking messages, there is a set of references to biological laboratories in Ukraine. They point to experimental research of an ethically extreme nature, tied to Jeffrey Epstein’s long-documented obsessions with eugenics, genetics, and [...]

In a comprehensive and candid interview with Blitz, Israel’s Ambassador to India, His Excellency Mr. Reuven Azar, outlines Israel’s position on Gaza, Hamas, and the expanding threat of transnational jihadist networks across South Asia. From endorsing President Donald Trump’s “Board of Peace” plan to warning against Hamas’s recruitment among vulnerable communities and stressing the urgency [...]