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Running Out

For months, Washington and Tel Aviv projected the confrontation with Iran as a campaign designed to fundamentally alter the strategic balance in West Asia.

Hormuz Limits

President Donald Trump’s abrupt decision to pause “Project Freedom” barely 50 hours after launching it says less about diplomacy than about the changing nature of power in West Asia.

Policy Crossroads

A sanctions bill moving through the US Congress would, if enacted, authorise punitive “secondary” trade measures ~ potentially including tariffs as high as 500 per cent ~ against countries that continue to buy Russian oil, gas, petroleum products or uranium.

Can Trump pardon himself?

A piece titled “Most world leaders have pardon power. Few use it the way Trump has,” appeared in The Washington Post on 20 January 2021, the day of Joe Biden’s inauguration.