Briefings. Notes. Clues.
Because diplomacy rarely leaves fingerprints
but always leaves traces.
Israel, Iran, and the End of Strategic Ambiguity 1. Act One: The Unwritten Rulebook For decades, the Middle East has operated under a brutal yet oddly stable formula: provoke, deny, retaliate, and contain. Israel hit targets in Syria. Iran armed
“The velvet autocrat doesn’t break laws. He writes new ones.” Democracy, as it turns out, does not need to be shot in the street. It can be chloroformed quietly in its sleep – no blood, no outrage, just the soft
The West believed it had history figured out. But the Global South stopped waiting—and started building. Mahbubani doesn’t want apologies. He wants adaptation. A briefing from inside the machinery, when the engine starts to fail.
A clear-eyed briefing on Nigeria’s enduring ambition, growing economy, and shrinking strategic relevance—seen through the lens of diplomatic reality.
When we last looked around in January, the second inauguration of Donald Trump already seemed like a significant geopolitical tremor.
The energy transition is no longer a future vision but a widely accepted necessity. Electric vehicles, wind power, solar panels – the instruments of transformation are already in place. Yet even as the direction is clear, the path forward remains