Organized gangs shrink the Haitian state, data centers compete with air conditioners in the United States, Keiko Fujimori brings the blue wave to Peru, and the West postures over the post-war status of the Strait of Hormuz.

Colombia pivots right, the Iran war MOU is tested throughout the week, Ebola spreading in DRC sight unseen, and Ukraine vows to bring the war to Moscow.

Taking a deep dive into the Iran war memorandum of understanding – an agreement as delicate as it is consequential for the future of American power in the Middle East.

Washington and Tehran agree on a memorandum of understanding, but the Iran war is far from over; Europeans are souring on trans-Atlantic relations just as the Trump administration rotates military assets away from the continent; and Ukraine’s FP-5 Flamingo has scored an early operational success deep within Russia.

Pressure mounts on the Iran war ceasefire; Taiwan and China face off at a disputed atoll in the South China Sea; a supercharged El Niño threatens to compound an already dire food security outlook; and the House GOP defies President Trump on the Ukraine war.

Examining the latest diplomatic efforts to hammer out a framework deal in the Iran war, signs that the Ebola outbreak in central Africa is worse than the data reflects, and the tentative return of the Quad as a player in the Indo-Pacific security architecture.

Examining the latest developments in the Iran war, a Putin-Xi summit just one week after President Trump came to town, and an expanding Ebola outbreak in the DRC.

Examining the latest developments in the Iran war, a conspicuously muted summit between President Trump and Xi Jinping, and growing pains in a recent BRICS+ meeting.

Examining attempts to secure a long-lasting peace deal in the Iran war, ominous trends in global food prices, and what a rare ceasefire could mean for the Ukraine war.

Examining the latest developments in the Iran war, the bottom falling out of US-EU relations, and how an expanding insurgency threatens state collapse in Mali.

Examining the latest developments in the Iran war and Japan’s re-invention as an autonomous player in Indo-Pacific security.

Examining the latest developments in the US-Israel Iran war, prospects for a ceasefire extension, and new signs of stress in the US military-industrial complex.

Examining the latest developments in the US-Israel Iran war, including reports of covert Chinese arms shipments to Iran and the risks involved in President Trump’s threat to blockade the Strait of Hormuz.

Examining the latest developments in the US-Israel Iran war; how President Trump’s latest attacks on NATO allies are producing a new response; and mounting global economic fallout from supply chain disruptions in the Persian Gulf.

Examining the latest developments in the US-Israel Iran war, including signs of possible TACO fatigue in the markets, the Houthis entrance into the war, and the increasingly scorched earth character of target selection.

Gulf leaders are being forced to decide whether to remain in a defensive posture or join offensive operations against Iran to reestablish credibility. The wrong move could lock the region into a cycle of infrastructure warfare that lasts years.

Examining the latest developments in the US-Israel Iran war, signs of distress in UK bond markets, and Russia’s advancing efforts to assert state control over its domestic internet.

Examining the latest developments in the US-Israel Iran war, the impact that the conflict is having on global food prices, what the redeployment of THAAD ‘parts’ from South Korea to the Middle East tells us about the war, and a wave of brutal attacks against military bases in northeast Nigeria.

Examining cascading regional fallout from joint US-Israeli strikes on Iran: recent attacks on critical water and energy infrastructure, evidence of Iran’s ‘mosaic defense’ in action, the possibility of divergences in US-Israeli alignment, and mixed messages surrounding a Kurdish offensive in Iran.

This week we examine the launch of a ‘major combat operation’ by the United States and Israel against Iran, the outbreak of all-out war between Pakistan and Afghanistan, China’s latest effort to turn the economic screws on Japan, Iceland looking to move up its referendum on EU membership, a hotter-than-expected inflation report in the United States, and Ukraine’s low-tech approach to shoring up drone defenses.