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The Bypass Is the Target: What This Week’s Gulf Escalation Reveals About Energy Security
On Tuesday, a Houthi missile strike set fire to part of Saudi Aramco's executive headquarters in Dhahran, the administrative heart of the kingdom's oil...
Can Europe Replace Starlink and US Satellite Intelligence as Ukraine Faces Growing Risks?
Ukraine is facing significant issues with Starlink satellite internet, which is impacting its military operations and air defense systems. Ukrainian officials reported problems with...
A Truce on Hybrids Is Not a China Policy
Brussels and Beijing finally have something they can both put in a press release. After months of sniping over cars, the two sides agreed...
China’s Russia Worry
Beijing’s biggest geopolitical concern each time Trump and Putin warmly embrace one another or the United States make a friendly gesture towards Russia is...
The Black Sea Has Quietly Closed
Twenty-One Ships
In August, Ukraine's Black Sea ports recorded 21 ship calls, about 90% fewer than a year earlier. A month later, on 16 September,...
Ukraine’s Refinery Strikes Have Become a US Election Issue
"Don't Hit Refineries"
On 10 October, standing outside the White House, Donald Trump gave Ukraine a targeting instruction. "Don't hit refineries. There's plenty of targets,"...
McNamara’s Lessons for the Drone Age
Before Robert McNamara became US secretary of defense, he belonged to a generation of analysts who attempted to understand warfare through the lens of...
The Global Cost of Resilience in the Twenty-First Century
For more than three decades, Europe organized much of its economic thinking around a particular interpretation of efficiency. Energy security, industrial self-sufficiency, strategic reserves,...
Make or Break in Beijing: Can the EU Get Anything Real From China by October?
A Chemical Nobody Had Heard Of
On 3 October, five days before EU trade commissioner Maroš Šefčovič landed in Beijing, China's commerce ministry opened an...
As Hormuz Reopens, Gulf Oil Producers Fight to Win Back Lost Markets
The Middle East's oil market is entering a new phase of competition as Gulf producers race to recover customers lost during the Iran war,...