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India doubling down on Rafales despite combat loss

India’s move to expand its Rafale fleet comes as it weighs recent combat lessons, urgent force-structure shortfalls, and longer-term strategic ties with France in a rapidly shifting regional security environment. This month, the Indian Ministry of Defense and multiple media

Can Europe reassert itself after Ukraine?

Washington’s 2025 strike on Iran, the raid to remove Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro in early 2026 and its renewed interest in acquiring Greenland have clarified the country’s international priorities. Meanwhile, securing Ukraine’s independence, once a defining rallying cry

Seedance 2.0 sparking China’s AI youth boom

By the mid-2020s, breakthroughs in artificial intelligence have become so frequent that few releases genuinely surprise. Yet ByteDance’s Seedance 2.0 has managed to do just that — not because it wins another benchmark race, but because it reveals something deeper about how a

When Trump’s bluff meets reality on Iran

Another US-Iran crisis, another round of carrier deployments and ultimatums, another set of predictions about imminent warfare. Yet here we are again, watching Washington and Tehran engage in their familiar dance of brinkmanship—a choreography that has become depressingly