Just before one of the largest Emirati business delegations in years arrived in Lebanon in late August, Saudi envoy to Lebanon Yazid bin Mohammed bin Farhan reached out to Lebanese political figures and encouraged them to mobilize against the conference and frame their opposition around the rejection of “normalization money.”
John Bolton has spent the better part of a quarter century arguing over what America should do about Iran. He’s studied the country, debated it, urged American presidents to thwart its nuclear ambitions. When he speaks, he delivers credible, serious analysis.
Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) provided Qatar with direct guarantees that any Iranian military strike carried out on Qatari territory would be limited to Al Udeid Air Base, according to sources familiar with the matter who spoke to Eagle Intelligence Reports.
The China-U.S. arms race has entered a critical phase. For decades, China’s nuclear deterrent relied almost exclusively on land-based missiles—static assets vulnerable to a preemptive first strike. Today, Beijing is rapidly developing a more survivable undersea nuclear force.
Andy Burnham has entered Downing Street at a moment when British bases are supporting an ongoing American war. U.S. aircraft operate from RAF Fairford in Gloucestershire and Diego Garcia in the Indian Ocean under an authorization Keir Starmer granted in March. Burnham did not choose it, yet he now owns it.
A decade ago, an international court ruled unambiguously in favor of the Philippines and against China’s claims in the South China Sea. Although the arbitration no longer constrains China, it remains strategically important as the legal foundation through which states legitimize and coordinate balancing against Beijing.
Eurasia is absorbing a series of strategic shocks. Russia is mired in its war in Ukraine. Israel and the United States have fought a war with Iran. A decades-long Armenia–Azerbaijan conflict has ended, and a new confrontation between Afghanistan and Pakistan looms.
Europe made Morocco its southern border guard. It funds Moroccan border control and relies on Rabat to stop migrants before they reach Spain. Yet Europe also keeps pulling Morocco closer, buying over half of its exports and hiring its people to fill jobs.
Europe’s rivers are running low, and the effects are spreading far beyond their banks. Extreme heat and drought are disrupting trade, energy production, agriculture, and critical infrastructure across the continent.
Nearly fifty years after the United States first imposed sanctions on Iran, in response to the 1979 embassy hostage crisis, the status of the Iranian rial has become one of the clearest measures of the country’s mounting economic crisis.
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