You mean he will lift sanctions on Russia and Venezuela? Great idea! www.aljazeera.com/economy/2026...

Trump Jr. profiting from a war his daddy created. The family business. Who could have predicted that?

This may be one of the most candid and damning interviews ever given by a former US Secretary of State. Iran can lose this war and still leave America strategically weaker. Three key takeaways from this interview. (Imo) 1. Lack of strategy. 2. Munitions and Markets. 3. JCPOA. /1

Iran’s asymmetric warfare shifts the battlefield from missiles to markets. Disrupt oil supply which will spike energy prices, revive inflation, push up mortgage rates and US borrowing costs. It will hurt Iran too but they are hurting anyway, so mutual economic destruction becomes leverage.

If Europe is busy with Russia and the US is busy in the Middle East, Taiwan is starting to feel rather neglected…

Iran’s new Supreme Leader now faces the basic succession test. Consolidate power fast and prove strength. After his father’s killing, projecting authority at home & deterrence abroad will be essential to secure his leadership. Surely US and Israel know that. 🤞 www.aljazeera.com/news/2026/3/...

Starmer judged this well and by the book. Good on him. Meanwhile the British media and other right wing commentators, “..but he is no Churchill”. apple.news/AqD-UPq7LR4m...

First Europe, now the Gulf. Allies are realising, in less than a year, that the US-led security architecture they had long taken for granted may no longer be credible. Quite the Trumpian ‘triumph’. One can see why Xi & Putin have little to complain about even with their partner, Iran being attacked.

In India, cities and towns, even villages now, roar with relentless hustle, monsoons flood without warning, wars and pandemics pass by, summers blaze like open flames and yet the moment a cricket match begins, the entire nation falls into reverent silence.

Since America has already won a war it didn’t know when it would end or what victory would mean, it is just as well the UK didn’t rush to join a triumph that exists only in the imagination of a deluded narcissist racing toward dementia and mistaking chaos for victory. www.bbc.com/news/article...

State collapse in a country the size of Iran would very likely increase systemic instability rather than reduce it, not push it into a “pre-industrial society,” but trigger regional escalation, fragmentation, refugee flows and global economic disruption.

A weakened Iran could still produce systemic effects. The conflict has already destabilised the Gulf order binding US security guarantees, dollar-based energy markets, and vast Gulf capital invested in the US economy, instability there will reverberate back into the US economy.

Remember the good old days when American military strength alone was enough to guarantee success and pastors didn’t have to come to the White House to pray for miracles? apple.news/ASLvFqsozToa...

What if the real question isn’t why the US attacked Iran, it is how this attack reshapes the region’s security–capital architecture. Not conspiracy. Structural incentives. /1

Serious questions for Keir Starmer, Why are the Gulf monarchies such “close allies” of the UK despite having very different political systems? And Why are there no formal defence treaties with such close allies?

As kids, my cousins and I would read the news and decide the safest airline based on current affairs. Emirates held the title for years. Today I think Air China would win, hands down.

India Vs England. Mumbai. Woohoo!! Watching with my sister just like old times.😍😍

The same technological pinpoint accuracy that was used to slaughter children in Gaza now being used to slaughter children in Iran.

How long before Washington is the one calling Kyiv for help? Ukraine has become one of the most combat-tested nations in the Western world right now.

Erm, not quite. He died for your sins. And since he is dead for now, till he comes back, we cannot be sure he has forgiven your sins.

Amid the chaos in the Middle East triggered by the US–Israel war, Macron and Modi exchange Holi greetings in Hindi and French, calling each other “my friend.” A small but reassuring reminder that statecraft isn’t quite dead yet.

I guess the primary architect and sponsor of the post WWII international rules-based order going rogue in 2026 wasn’t on anyone’s bingo card. www.reuters.com/world/asia-p...

At this moment, Russia looks less isolated globally than the US does. That should tell us something about how power is shifting. And no, Russia hasn’t suddenly become stronger or gained a wave of new allies this week.

We rightly called Russia’s invasion of Ukraine a violation of sovereignty. If we don’t apply the same standard to US-Israel’s attack on Iran, then sovereignty isn’t our principle, alignment is. And that is why international law loses credibility.

Starmer should take that as a compliment.

It is cause Trump has been anointed by Jesus to cause Armageddon… 😳🙏

Funny how it is “evacuate” and “crisis response protection” when Western economic migrants leave at the slightest hint of danger but “illegal migration” when non-white people leave war-torn countries.

FOMO diplomacy? Better late than never. Over to you Merz…oh!

That is a good position. The last thing you want is to become the Tony of Tehran…

Oh. Maybe Netanyahu should have led this briefing instead… “This illegal war is based on lies, and it was launched without any imminent threat to our nation. Donald Trump still hasn’t given us a single clear reason for this war and he seems to have no plan for how to end it either”.

The left, the right, centrists, the disengaged, and even the deranged, all seem united in their dislike of Keir Starmer. That’s quite an achievement, in such little time.

Somebody spare a thought for Nigel Farage and Shabana Mahmood, such headlines are sure to give them sleepless nights. apple.news/AIW4909T0SaK...

Led by Donkeys.. 👇 And it is spot on.

Maybe, just maybe, the US leaders should stop listening to Bibi… He has consistently been wrong.

Remember this? “If you take out Saddam, I guarantee you it will have enormously positive impact in the region" A million people died, an entire society was destroyed in a War based on a complete lie.

Meh! Like all lazy despot leaders, they have chosen the easy route and decided to appease Trump.

Maybe because postal voting is a tad difficult at the moment in Iran.

a free* link for you, the people *for seven days www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

Ah yes, as long as it is “an addition, not a substitute,” I am sure Washington will be delighted about it. After all, Trump has often said that Europe should take care of its own security.

We will need to adjust to a world shaped by a new “Axis of Evil” and decide how to confront it.

Netanyahu looks particularly pale on today’s TV address. Are the hellhounds at his doorstep keeping him awake at night? His deal with the devil must have come to end..

Iranian security chief, Larijani, “We do not negotiate with terrorists”.

Liberal democracies that still believe in the rule of law and the institutions they help built to uphold it must confront the uncomfortable truth: They can no longer treat the US as an unquestioned force for good and must now start thinking of how to apply contraints on the US hegemony.

It is an illegal war but in a “specific and limited” way…

This is the most elegant and classiest framing of “Isabel Oakeshott in Dubai” narrative that has been making rounds on Bluesky.

Sorry for anyone affected by the violence in the Middle East and that sympathy extends to Isabel Oakeshott and her family. Perhaps this experience will help her reflect on the fear and suffering of millions of people who suffer far far worse and are obliged to flee famine and war.

“I see dead people” “I have agreed to talk to them” apple.news/AFTLKaR_vRoq...

You are arguing degrees of dysfunction. I am saying that air and naval power don’t automatically eliminate embedded institutions or ideologies.

Maybe.. just stay with me here… the US and Israel are just as brutal, corrupt and incompetent as the IRGC since even with all their combined military power, firepower, and the resulting civilian death toll and destruction still couldn’t fully eliminate those (incompetent) regional proxies…

A new “Axis of Evil”, the United States and Israel. Not quite what George W. Bush had in mind when he coined the term in 2002. And then there was George H W. Bush who suggested a “New World Order” based on Collective Security. Well, that has been truly dusted and dumped by Trump.