Americas

How Far is Cuba From a Total Collapse?

How close is Cuba to collapse? Energy strangulation, fading allies, and Trump’s oil squeeze after Venezuela’s shift have left Havana isolated and rationing. For the first time in decades, the regime’s survival feels uncertain.

Maduro’s Capture: The Rise of Might-Makes-Right International Order?

Maduro’s capture signals a grim shift: power over law. From Venezuela to Gaza and Ukraine, force is normalised, sovereignty erodes, and multilateral institutions hollow out—ushering a dangerous might-makes-right world order.

Venezuelan Military Preparedness in the Wake of a War Against the US

The U.S. is beating war drums in the Southern Caribbean, raising fears of a showdown with Venezuela. Despite Maduro’s rhetoric and past military buildup, Caracas faces overwhelming odds in any real confrontation.

Strategic Planning in the 21st Century

There is a broad consensus among pundits, experts and strategic thinkers that the international order is in transition, if not in disarray, due to...

Make China Weak Again

Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin and US Trade Representative Robert Lighthizer are planning a trip to Beijing for trade discussions. This apparent “truce” came after...

Are We Ready for the Red Pill?

It took me a week to gather myself to write this. I was so disturbed by the news that US, Britain and France decided...

US Last Efforts to Keep its Presence in the South China Sea

After a series of accidents involving US 7th Fleet based in Japan, the latest FONOP in the South China Sea conducted by USS Hopper...

From The Ruins of Unipolarity

The recent unilateral take by the US followed by backflip on several of its global policies from its traditional approach as a global cop...

Combating Racial Discrimination in the United States

Racial discrimination in the United States has been a widely discussed topic since last year’s presidential election. America is seen as a melting pot...

A Reflection on Discrimination Against Muslims in America

Discrimination is defined as unfair and unjust treatment of people based on their religion, race, color or sex. History tells us, no country or...

What will be the consequences if America attacks North Korea?

The United States' military is by far the most powerful and advanced in the world. There is no point in comparing the military might of...

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The New Power Centers of Sports Diplomacy: Cities, Capital, and Code

If power in sport now lives in city halls, boardrooms, and algorithms—not stadiums—how will the U.S. wield cities, capital, and code as it hosts the world’s biggest events over the next decade?

Four Years On, Ukraine’s War Still Refuses to End

Four years on, Ukraine’s war drags across 1,200 km, cities in ruins and millions displaced. Russia entrenched, Kyiv defiant, the West divided—how long can a war of attrition outlast political will before exhaustion decides the peace?

How Timor-Leste Uses Tourism to Cement Its ASEAN Role

After joining ASEAN in 2025, Timor-Leste is leveraging sustainable, high-value tourism to boost soft power, diversify beyond oil, and cement its regional role—positioning itself as Southeast Asia’s next authentic frontier, not its next mass market.

How Far is Cuba From a Total Collapse?

How close is Cuba to collapse? Energy strangulation, fading allies, and Trump’s oil squeeze after Venezuela’s shift have left Havana isolated and rationing. For the first time in decades, the regime’s survival feels uncertain.

The Maghreb’s New Architecture: Beyond the Myth of the Algerian Pillar

Madrid 2026 wasn’t diplomacy—it was redesign. Washington moves past Algeria’s veto politics, backs Morocco’s autonomy plan, and seeds a Tunis-Rabat axis built on energy sovereignty, phosphates, and geo-economic integration. The Maghreb’s balance is shifting.