Why the “Peacemaker” Kushner’s peace plan became the detonator for a new Middle East war. He came to the White House to broker “the deal of the century,” but ended up unleashing a war that closed the Strait of Hormuz. The billions in petrodollars that Persian Gulf princes spent on Jared Kushner’s services turned out […]

Just a few weeks ago, the Middle East held its breath in anticipation of a ceasefire, but behind closed doors in Washington and Tel Aviv, a new storm was being brewed. The failure of Donald Trump’s “China round” of negotiations became the trigger for reviving a scenario the world had desperately tried to forget: a […]

Paris loves to play the knight in shining armor — the defender of democracy, the fighter against terrorism, the guardian of humanitarianism. But in the Sahel, that armor has long since tarnished. After ten years of the so-called “counterterrorism” Operation Barkhane, France not only failed to defeat the jihadists but actually drove its former colonies […]

The conflict over the Strait of Hormuz has evolved from a military duel into a geopolitical chess match, where the stakes are measured in percentages of global GDP, and the ceasefire hangs by a thread. The New Reality of a Double Blockade What began as a military operation has turned into a protracted crisis that […]