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How India should read and react to Trump

On June 21, 2025, US President Donald Trump once again claimed that he had brokered a ceasefire between India and Pakistan—saying he had “stopped the war” while invoking Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Pakistan’s Army Chief General Asim Munir, and lamenting that he still

US strikes on Iran set a troubling illegal precedent

After the United States bombed Iran’s three nuclear facilities on Sunday, US President Donald Trump said its objective was a “stop to the nuclear threat posed by the world’s number one state sponsor of terror.” US Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth echoed this justification,

Behind Trump’s flip-flop on Chinese student visas

President Donald Trump appears to have walked back plans for the US State Department to scrutinize and revoke visas for Chinese students studying in the country. On June 11, 2025, Trump posted on his social media platform TruthSocial that visas for Chinese students would

America is at war, again, and it’s a foggy war

Clearly, President Donald Trump’s apparent granting of a two week deadline for Iran to resume negotiations was an act of deception, despite coming just as Iran was holding talks with France, Britain and Germany. In his case, at least, time was not being bought, though the US

North Korea overtakes Iran as Russia’s partner of choice

North Korea is no longer just supplying Russia with manpower and missiles. It is embedding itself deep within Russia’s war economy, sending thousands of workers to the heart of its drone industry and reshaping the balance of power in Eurasia. This month, The War Zone (TWZ)

Siege warfare keeping Myanmar military in the fight

For centuries, the small northern Myanmar city of Bhamo has owed its prosperity to its importance as a ferry terminus and commercial hub on a wide bend on the upper Ayeyarwady River close to the border with neighboring China. In recent months, that strategic location in Kachin

The US attack on Iran and the collapse of negotiations

President Donald Trump’s decision to launch attacks on three of Iran’s major nuclear enrichment sites took place after negotiations in Geneva collapsed. Iran’s foreign minister met with the foreign ministers of Germany, Britain and France, known as the E3, plus the EU. The E-3