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China Cranks South China Sea Buildup While Iran Consumes US

China’s renewed land reclamation at Antelope Reef comes as the ongoing US-Israel-Iran War draws significant US military assets into the Middle East, raising questions over whether shifting US force posture is opening strategic space in the South China Sea
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How Massive US Footprint In The Gulf Became A Bullseye Overnight

For decades, U.S. policy toward the Middle East has revolved around a simple premise: the forward deployment of U.S. military power would deter adversaries — chiefly Iran — and, if necessary, defend host states from attack
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US Delays Japan’s Tomahawk Missile Supplies As Iran Strikes Take Priority

Japan’s order for hundreds of Tomahawk missiles from the US is under threat as the American-Israeli war with Iran burns through inventories, the latest example of how the conflict is drawing in supplies and troops at the expense of defending against Washington’s primary strategic rival, China
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Muslim Brotherhood Needs To Be The Next Target After Iran's Mullahs

The Muslim Brotherhood, a transnational Sunni Islamist organization aiming to institute sharia-based governance, has come out against the US-Israeli military operation targeting the Shiite Iranian regime, despite the Sunni-Shia divide that originated in 632 CE over who should succeed Islam's Prophet Mohammed
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The Case Trump Made In The State Of The Union: America Is Back

At almost two hours and being the longest modern presidential address to Congress, the speech functioned as a sweeping case that the United States has already turned a corner, ushering in the Trump led Golden Era
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Erdogan's Sunni Noose: Turkey's Bid To Encircle Israel

While much of the world's attention remains fixed on Iran and its Shi'ite axis, another geopolitical realignment is taking shape — more quietly, more pragmatically, and potentially just as consequential for the US, Israel and the Middle East
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Canada’s TMX Pipeline Hedge

Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney’s visit to Beijing last week, the first by a Canadian leader in nearly a decade, was framed publicly as a reset in Sino-Canadian trade relations
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