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New Arsenal

Wars have often accelerated technological change. The machine gun altered infantry tactics, the tank transformed mobility, and air power redefined strategic reach.

Tariff Reboot

President Donald Trump’s trade policy has acquired a second life. After the US Supreme Court curtailed key elements of the architecture that defined much of his economic agenda, the White House has returned with a familiar instrument wrapped in a different justification.

Cattle Shed Answer

On 28 February 2026, the war that diplomats had spent two years rehearsing began. American and Israeli aircraft struck Iranian nuclear and missile installations; Iran’s Supreme Leader was killed, and by 2 March the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps had formally closed the Strait of Hormuz to merchant traffic, laying mines and warning off shipping.

Blockade Gamble

When US President Donald Trump announced a naval blockade targeting Iranian ports, he was not merely escalating a regional conflict ~ he was testing the limits of economic coercion in a tightly interdependent world.

Mess made by the West ~ I

The transition from the declining Ottoman Empire to the contemporary Middle East is a story of profoundly tragic transformation fundamentally shaped by Western interests, strategies and intervention.