Middle East

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Trump Blatantly Threatens And Rots In Public, Embarrassing America’s ‘Allies’

https://www.youtube.com/live/gOxYEK8pTsw?t=164s “INTEL Roundtable: Weekly Wrap 25-SEPT” Judge Napolitano, Larry Johnson, Karen Kwiatkowski 25 September 2026 02:44 Welcome here, a pleasure, guys. Thanks very much, uh, for joining us. Larry, I have to go to you first. You just spent three weeks in Russia. You participated in, uh, academic, uh, programs. […]

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India Is Unlikely To Ever Allow Turkiye To Become A Full SCO Member

Turkiye is Pakistan’s decades-long military-technical partner, fully supports Islamabad’s approach to the Kashmir Conflict, and just entered into an official alliance with it. Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan told reporters after early September’s SCO leaders’ summit that his country would consider full membership in the bloc. He clarified that this […]

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A War 4,000 Miles Away Is Turning Off Dhaka’s Lights

Halder sets her alarm for 1am not to get ahead of the workdayangladesh-Dhaka, but because that’s the only hour when Dhaka’s gas pressure runs strong enough for her to actually cook for her family. That single detail captures something larger than one exhausted bank employee’s routine: a war between the […]

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NATO 3.0 And Turkey’s Strategic Moment (II)

Part I For Ankara, hosting the summit carried symbolic and practical significance. Turkey has long argued that it occupies a unique strategic position linking Europe, the Middle East, the Black Sea, and the Eastern Mediterranean. Turkish officials increasingly describe this approach as a doctrine of regional responsibility, arguing that countries directly […]

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The Hormuz Paradox: When “Deterrence” Fuels The Conflict It Seeks To Prevent

The latest confrontation around the Strait of Hormuz exposes a dangerous contradiction: measures intended to restore deterrence may be deepening the insecurity they promise to resolve. On September 8, Washington said it destroyed five Iranian oil tankers following missile attacks on an American warship. Tehran subsequently claimed attacks against ships […]