Despite dramatic rhetoric, military spectacle, and bold claims from Washington, America’s largest oil companies are signaling that Venezuela remains off-limits for serious investment. What was billed by President Donald Trump as a decisive geopolitical and economic triumph has, in the eyes of Big Oil, failed to deliver the one outcome that truly matters to global [...]

The ongoing mass demonstrations in Iran represent the largest wave of protests the country has experienced in roughly half a decade. While public unrest in Iran is not new, the scale, geographic spread, and underlying drivers of the current protests have drawn heightened regional attention. What began as demonstrations by bazaar merchants over worsening economic [...]

Latvia has accused neighboring Belarus of directly involving its military in facilitating irregular migration into the European Union, escalating long-standing tensions between Minsk and EU member states over what European governments describe as the deliberate “weaponization” of migration. Latvian authorities say newly uncovered evidence suggests that Belarusian military units played an active role in planning [...]

Malaysia’s anti-corruption authorities have significantly expanded a high-profile investigation into alleged corruption within the country’s military procurement system, announcing the seizure of millions of dollars in cash, gold, and luxury goods, along with the freezing of numerous company bank accounts. The probe, which centers on suspected bribery, abuse of power, and money laundering linked to [...]

Turkish authorities have once again drawn attention to the country’s tightening controls over digital media by blocking access to dozens of articles published by the independent news outlet K?sa Dalga. The restricted content focuses largely on allegations of corruption, money laundering, organized crime, and politically sensitive investigations, underscoring growing concerns among journalists and rights advocates about the shrinking [...]

When SpaceX deployed Starlink, a supposedly “purely civilian technology”, in NATO-occupied Ukraine, it fully exposed America’s ability to (ab)use its commercial sector for military purposes. Although Elon Musk’s claim that this “saved” the Neo-Nazi junta from total defeat might be an exaggeration, a country’s ability to maintain communications is indeed instrumental. Namely, the Russian military uses [...]

It is unfathomable that right here in America, we are witnessing how ICE is operating with impunity, with utter disregard for the law and for loss of life and liberty. What is even more shocking is that US Vice President JD Vance declared that a federal agent who killed a 37-year-old civilian woman in Minnesota [...]

On January 14th, a Kazakh oil tanker was struck by two Ukrainian drones in the Black Sea. The incident generated significant repercussions and diplomatic unease, but it was not an isolated episode. The case is part of a wave of Ukrainian attacks against vessels from countries that are economic partners of the Russian Federation, especially [...]

Are we approaching a moment in which Russia could emerge as a guarantor of stability for Greenland and Europe as a whole? Until recently, even posing the question would have sounded “absurd”. Today, things are different.
The transatlantic order is cracking under the weight of its own contradictions. Donald Trump’s renewed threats toward Greenland have exposed [...]

The renewed activity of Al Qaeda–affiliated groups in Syria has revived an old but unresolved question in Middle Eastern politics: how did an extremist Sunni jihadist organization and a revolutionary Shiite state come to intersect operationally in the same theaters of conflict? At first glance, the idea appears implausible. Al-Qaeda’s ideology is violently hostile to [...]