Geostrategic Media Political Commentary, Analysis, Security, Defense
With the 60-day ceasefire window between the United States and Iran approaching its end, President Donald Trump faces a strategic dilemma that increasingly resembles a choice between two undesirable outcomes: launching another military confrontation with Iran, or waiting for the U.S. midterm elections while the economic consequences of …
August, 2026
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20 August
Netanyahu’s New Enemy: Why Turkey Is Becoming an Election Issue in Israel
As Israel approaches its October 27 parliamentary elections, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu appears to be adding a new adversary to his increasingly crowded regional threat narrative: Turkey. The latest confrontation between Jerusalem and Ankara over Syria is therefore about more than a military dispute over an airbase near …
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20 August
The Iran war may go down as the US’ worst ever defeat
Robert Inlakesh While the US president continues to lie to his people about imagined victories over Iran in West Asia, the arguments fall flat amongst the vast majority of Americans who see through his tired rhetoric. Unlike past military blunders, Washington has not and will not be able …
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20 August
Katz: Erdogan ‘dragging’ Turkey into ‘dangerous adventures’ in Syria
Israeli War Minister Israel Katz warned Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan on Thursday, writing in Turkish on X that Erdogan “is dragging Turkey into dangerous adventures in Syria” and that “Israel” will not “allow any actor to threaten its security”. Katz added that “it would be better” for …
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20 August
How the US-EU Partnership Is Fracturing
By Dr. Dan Steinbock For China and the Global South, US-EU tensions are part of a broader struggle over selective globalization. The US increasingly prioritizes technological dominance, supply-chain security, industrial protection and strategic competition with China. Under Trump, this approach has become openly transactional and unilateral: tariffs, market …
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20 August
The Cold War That Never Ended: Nostalgia, Danger, and the Unravelling of Order in 2026
Dr. Shehab Al-Makahleh This year, 2026, marks the 18th anniversary of the beginning of the Cold War — the politico-ideological and military-economic confrontation between the blocs led by the United States and the Soviet Union. It also marks the thirty-fifth anniversary of its definitive conclusion, brought about by …
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20 August
The Ebola Escalation Is a Global Health Emergency
Dan Steinbock After three months, the Ebola crisis in Central Africa has crossed a critical regional threshold. Concurrently, it reflects the emerging US/China division—and possible complementarity—of global health power. In late May, the principal question was whether the newly declared outbreak in eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo …
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20 August
The War of Attrition: Why Pakistan Lacks Iran’s Comparative Advantages
Dr. Yashwant Singh Most comparisons between Iran’s 2025–26 war with Israel and the United States and a hypothetical Pakistan–India conflict ask the wrong question. They tend to focus either on the two sides’ ability to manage escalation or on whether Pakistan possesses “enough” missiles, drones, satellites, and other …
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20 August
Engineering Fear 5.0: Syria – A Testing Ground for the Turkish-Israeli Conflict
From Strategic Alliance to the Brink in Northern Syria Dr. Musfafa Al-Tal What is happening in Syria today is not merely a passing escalation, nor even another episode in the familiar series of Israeli strikes. It is a mirror of the collapse of old equations, and a test …
