On February 28, 2026, Operation Epic Fury changed the world. A coordinated US-Israeli strike on Iran’s nuclear infrastructure and military leadership didn’t just ignite a regional...
Sometime in the past week, a crude oil trader in Singapore watched his screen flash a number he’d never seen before in two decades on the...
There is a strip of seawater — twenty-one miles wide at its narrowest, wedged between the Iranian coastline and the Omani shore — that has long...
The rupture in world order is not merely political. It is thermodynamic. Two civilizational models—one running on molecules, one on electrons—are now in direct and irreversible...
There is a particular kind of policy failure that announces itself quietly—not with a crisis, but with a statistic that arrives too late to matter. For...
The AI giant’s first media acquisition isn’t really about a talk show. It’s about who controls the story of the century. On April 2, 2026, OpenAI...
Shanmugam says Singapore hasn’t curbed fuel use despite the Middle East conflict. Here’s why that’s not complacency — it’s calculated small-state statecraft at its finest Introduction:...
There was a moment, somewhere in the fog of mid-2025, when the prevailing consensus on Wall Street and in the marble corridors of multilateral institutions was...
Oil prices dropped 1% after a WSJ report said Trump is willing to end the Iran military campaign even if the Strait of Hormuz stays closed....
China is helping the Revolutionary Guards profit from Iranian crude while Gulf petro-monarchies bleed. There is a perverse irony at the heart of the Third Gulf...