This week we examine Trump’s embrace of the Chavista regime in Venezuela, reports of multiple assassination attempts targeting President al-Shaara in Syria, Beijing’s accelerating efforts to offload US debt, and new indications in Europe and Canada of a fundamental realignment in global defense industries.

A potential cut-off from Venezuelan and/or Iranian oil supply is a marginal-cost issue, not a systemic vulnerability for China’s overall energy security.

Without stable, predictable governance and insurance companies willing to cover Venezuelan risks, tactical military success will not translate into sustained economic engagement.

The Venezuelan operation vividly illustrates how 21st century warfare is increasingly defined less as a clash of forces than as an asymmetric competition between decision architectures.

The removal of Nicolás Maduro may satisfy Washington’s appetite for decisive action, but it does not amount to regime change.

This week we examine worsening protests across Iran, a state of geopolitical limbo descending over Venezuela, and a tentative step into hard power projection from the BRICS Plus bloc.

Regime change in Venezuela is a game-changing development that will resonate across the geopolitics of the Americas. But it’s not without its risks.

The geopolitical importance of Guyana has been underscored by the recent regime change in Venezuela.

The Maduro operation was coercive diplomacy enforced by overwhelming military action, rather than regime change framed as democratization. In other words, it is gunboat diplomacy adapted to the twenty-first century.

The arrest of Nicolás Maduro hardens a quiet conviction already spreading across the South: that the rules of the international order are no longer universal, but situational—and that survival now depends not on norms, but on leverage.

This week we examine fallout from the US military’s capture of President Maduro in Venezuela, cascading Saudi-UAE tensions over Yemen, and a new protest movement sweeping Iran.

Regime change in Venezuela can be traced back to Hugo Chavez acting against the geopolitical imperatives of his country. And now Washington is making the exact same mistake.