Cash Me If You Can: Inside Trump’s Trillion Dollar Gulf Tour

“Politics is no longer just theater; it’s show business.

May 18 • 

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April 2025

Syriasly? Turkey, Israel, and the Shadow War Brewing in Syria

📡 Fifteen years after Israeli commandos stormed a Turkish aid ship bound for Gaza, relations between (increasingly antagonistic) Turkey and Israel are…

Apr 10 • 

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Muscle Memory: Is Trump about to light the Middle East on fire?

📡 The IRA (that’s the Irish Republican Army) used to have a motto for their war on the British Crown, summed up in three words: Escalate, Escalate…

Apr 5 • 

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March 2025

World Trade Disorganization: How the US Is Undermining Its Own Legacy

📡 In a move that has trade wonks, diplomats, and just about everyone who likes predictable rules scratching their heads, the Trump administration last…

Mar 31 • 

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Red Sea Blues: Yemen versus the global economy

📡 You know the feeling when you create a WhatsApp group chat and accidently add someone you shouldn’t have ?

Mar 25 • 

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Turkish Delight: How Turkey became the new regional power player

📡 Napoleon once famously said ‘If you want to understand the behaviour of a country, just look at a map’.

Mar 20 • 

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SurRealPolitik: France and European Strategic Autonomy

📡 ‘If you’re right too early, you’re wrong’.

Mar 10 • 

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February 2025

Borderline Behavior: What is Israel doing in Syria?

💬 An old (wonderfully cinical) quote about Lebanon goes something like: ‘If you have understood everything about Lebanon, it means they’ve explained it…

Feb 27 • 

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EU have a Problem: What the U.S. Strategic Pivot on Russia Means for Europe

📡 Today, people share their thoughts on how the world of 2025 bears a striking resemblance to the world pre-WWI.

Feb 23 • 

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Putin on a Show: US & Russia face off in Riyad & Europe's new two-front war

‘We know they are lying.

Feb 19 • 

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The Sound of Munich: The Predictable Collapse of Transatlantic Unity

"Nations have no permanent friends, only permanent interests." Charles de Gaulle’s words have never felt more relevant today.

Feb 17 • 

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January 2025

The Geopolitics of AI

China’s latest AI model, and why it’s rattling folks across Silicon Valley and Washington, DC

Jan 31 • 

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