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Will NATO Survive Trump?

Over the weekend, President Donald Trump threatened to place new punitive tariffs on European allies until they acquiesce to his designs on Greenland, an escalation of his ongoing attempts to acquire the large Arctic island for the United States
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Trump’s Unmistakable Warning Through Maduro’s Capture: Don’t Play Games

The capture of Nicolás Maduro marks the pinnacle of U.S. President Donald Trump’s strategic power calculations and a manifestation of Washington’s unwavering intent to keep Russia and China at bay and reassert American dominance and primacy in the Western Hemisphere
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Japan Has Finally Drawn the Line - A Trapped Beijing Knows It

The recent Sino-Japan tension over Taiwan and Prime Minister Takaichi Sanae’s comments on defending Taiwan reflects the underlying power tension that has always been prevalent, but so far managed by conventional norms. The buck stops with Takaichi
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Thailand Deploys Indigenous “Shahed-Like” KB-5E Kamikaze Drone In 2025 Border War With Cambodia

The 2025 Cambodia–Thailand border conflict has rapidly emerged as Southeast Asia’s most volatile and technologically consequential armed confrontation since the early 2010s, transforming what began as a localized territorial dispute into a high-intensity clash defined by artillery duels, precision airstrikes, electronic warfare, and the combat debut of Thailand’s domestically developed kamikaze drone, the KB-5E
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USAF Fighter Jets’ New Strategy On Isolated Island

For the first time, the US Air Force has deployed fighter jets to the secretive, remote island military base of Diego Garcia in the Indian Ocean, a powerful signal to China about the survivability of US combat airpower in the Asia-Pacific
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Venezuela's Anti-US Alliances

US President Donald J. Trump's condemnation of Venezuela's illegal leader Nicolás Maduro includes his regime's facilitation of trafficking illegal drugs into the United States
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The MiG-31 Affair Shows The West Is Losing Focus On Battlefield

Russia’s announcement that its security services disrupted an alleged Ukrainian-British attempt to persuade a Russian pilot to defect with a MiG-31 interceptor armed with a Kinzhal hypersonic missile initially sounds like a relic of an earlier era
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The Top US Military Contractors Cashing In On Caribbean Operations

As fears mount that U.S. strikes against so-called “narco-terrorists” in the Caribbean could escalate into full-scale war with Venezuela, weapons makers are well positioned to benefit from the unprecedented U.S. military build-up in the region, not seen on such a scale in decades, and continues unabated
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The US–Malaysia Partnership: Why It Matters for Our Shared Future

Malaysia will get long term tangible and intangible benefits not only from the Agreement on Reciprocal Trade (ART), but most importantly on the multi-faceted positive safeguard of our economic, security, technological and geopolitical strength and needs through enhanced ties with the US
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The Coming US Financial Crisis

Last week, after US President Donald Trump threatened to impose additional 100% tariffs on China starting next month, the US stock market tumbled, and bond yields fell.
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‘Patriot Bonds,’ An Indonesian Shakedown?

One might think that Indonesia’s President Prabowo Subianto would have learned lessons from the careers of his father, Sumitro Djojohadikusumo, one of the architects of Suharto’s mostly successful orthodox economic agenda, and his grandfather, Margono Djojohadikusumo, the founder of Bank Negara Indonesia, the country’s first central bank
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