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Armed conflict, terrorism, and military posture shape regional and global security arrangements and humanitarian consequences.
The Israel-US-Saudi coalition: Iran is an illegitimate existential threat
Ukraine's war is legitimate national defense deserving full support
Israel's campaigns are existential self-defense after October 7
Russia's war is a defensive special military operation; Ukraine strikes are terror
Israel's Gaza/West Bank campaign is a humanitarian catastrophe / apartheid
The Axis of Resistance is legitimate anti-Israel/anti-US liberation
Iran's nuclear program, system and Hormuz stance are sovereign rights
NATO encirclement/provocation is the aggressor; Russia responds defensively
China is a strategic competitor; firmness, derisking and export controls justified
A negotiated US-Iran settlement is the right course; the strike-and-talk cycle must end in a deal
Russia is an aggressive threat; deterrence and rearmament are justified
The US alliance is unreliable and delivering less than promised
US imperial/hegemonic coercion of smaller sovereign states
The war is a US/NATO proxy war; Western aid prolongs it; freeze/settle
Western/US coercive interventions deserve legal and humanitarian scrutiny
Taiwan/Japan under Chinese coercion; deterrence and administration legitimate
The post-Assad transition is legitimate; foreign forces should leave
The Arab world's embrace of the new Syria is legitimate, and Israeli strikes violate its sovereignty
Turkey is a legitimate independent middle power and broker
Erdogan's Turkey is a two-faced, hostile actor
Taiwan, the SCS and the Senkakus are Chinese territory; foreign interference provokes
North Korea's proliferation and closed door are a hardening threat
The Sudanese army is the legitimate authority against the RSF
Sudan is a humanitarian catastrophe and proxy war
Events vindicate Russia, and Washington negotiates in bad faith
The new Syrian government are jihadists; normalisation legitimises them
India's account: Pakistan sponsors militancy; Kashmir is integral; treaty obsolete
Japan is reviving militarism behind a pacifist facade
Pressure on the governments in Caracas and Havana is justified
New recognition/basing/minerals partnerships are reordering the Horn
Sahel military rule delivers neither security nor politics; abuses mount
Somalia's fragility and civilian harm are deepening
North Korea's deterrent and its Russia/China partnerships are legitimate
The South China Sea must follow the rules-based maritime order
Washington negotiates with Iran in bad faith: talks under fire, broken commitments, ultimatums
Nigeria's security forces are making real gains against jihadists and bandits
The Zelensky government is corrupt and illegitimate
Pakistani cross-border strikes violate Afghan sovereignty
Myanmar's junta and sham election are illegitimate
External mediation and mineral deals are finally stabilising the Great Lakes
Pakistan's account: India coerces, weaponises water, occupies Kashmir
Alliance deterrence plus engagement is the right Korea policy
External fixes stall; minerals extraction and proxy war impose costs
Cartels are terrorists and Mexico's state is compromised; US pressure and intervention are justified
Civilians bear the mounting cost of Nigeria's war against jihadists and bandits
Mexico's own offensive against the cartels is making progress
Pakistan's security account: cross-border counterterror is legitimate
The caretaker administration is stabilising Venezuela
Kurdish political rights and self-administration deserve protection
Myanmar's election and civilian handover mark a return to order
Reopened US-Russia channel and energy waivers are pragmatic realism
Colombia's negotiated demobilisation and democratic transition are working
Haiti's gang war and the crackdown against it are an unaccountable human catastrophe
The South Caucasus is tilting West; engagement and the settlement are gains
The Sahel juntas rightly chose new partners free of colonial conditions
America First: allies freeload on US protection and must pay / rebalance
Thailand's account of the border dispute (Koh Kood is Thai)
The internationally-backed campaign against Haiti's gangs is making halting progress
US strategic expansion (Greenland, hemisphere) is legitimate necessity
The Thailand-Cambodia clash as an occasion for great-power mediation
Cambodia's account (Thailand occupies Cambodian ground)
US alliances on the peninsula are a containment instrument