Donald Trump—New World’s cartographer
Light blue “Brioni” suit at Pope Francis’s funeral, request for free passage of US ships through Suez Canal, rapprochement with Vladimir Putin, vision of Gaza as a prime tourist location in the Middle East…
47th president of US is in more ways than one, determined to try to draw not only a new geopolitical map of the World, but also to assert America’s willingness to do so.
This blog will once a week, on Mondays, bring an assessment of some of Mr Trump’s latest moves towards redefining current international order, and the reactions of the rest.
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Strait of Ormuz: Now tankers are becoming military targets…
How much does it cost when a tanker loaded with oil runs into an underwater [...]
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Hormuz, California, to get ready for ...Diego Garcia?
The matter is internal only at first glance. US President Donald Trump’s announcement that “the [...]
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America loses a sole "entrance" to the Strait of Hormuz?
The luxurious hotel “Al Bustan Palace” (on the photo) in Muscat, the capital of Oman, [...]
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The battle for Bab el Mandeb has not even begun
Photo Wikimedia Israelis in Berbera, Americans in Bosaso: control of the southern approaches to the [...]
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Bab el Mandeb: Nemački ratni brodovi se povlače
The timing could not have been more delicate: in the middle of this week, the [...]
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Bab el Mandeb is a new war trap
Wikipedia While Washington and Tehran show signs of readiness to resume peace talks, it is [...]
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Oman from the future: Moscow-Salalah flight from September
Official Muscat is pursuing course of diplomatic neutrality in line with Sultan Qaboos’ axiom: “A [...]
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Iranian oil strengthens the US dollar?
Wikimedia The ongoing negotiations between Washington and Tehran are not limited to only 60 days, [...]
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Is Paris to count mines in the Strait of Hormuz?
The first visit of the Sultan of Oman to France since 1989 secured Paris a [...]
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Donald Trump: 300 billion dollars for Iran?
* In the complicated, currently—seemingly stalled, negotiations between the US and Iran, the two fabulous [...]
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Oman—Iran, new ferry line
Shah Reza Pahlavi of Iran and Sutan Qaboos, ruler of Oman in 1968. jointly proposed [...]
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Hargeisa—a new player in the Middle East
The Embassy of Somaliland in Jerusalem is the likely harbinger of a different military-political order [...]
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Donald Trump: "Pirates", watches and oil
Mike Wirth, CEO of “Chevron: “The closure of the Strait of Hormuz, together with the [...]
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A barrel of oil: 167, 200 or 300 dollars?
The longer the war in the Persian Gulf, the higher the chances for a massive [...]
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Hormuz far from Wellington
The future architecture of strategic strait management is still in the dark Photo: Wikimedia * [...]
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Donald Trump: Iran's "goodbye" to Islamabad
The uncertain location of the next round of negotiations between Washington and Tehran: will today’s [...]
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After Hormuz, and Bab el-Mandeb before two naval blockades
While the Iranians and the Americans measure their strength by blocking navigation in the direction [...]
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Underwater drones landing on the Hormuz Straits
Gibraltar—Duqm (a port in central Oman): 3,435 nautical miles (6,362 kilometres). That distance could — [...]
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Donald Trump in the “Hormuz time pressure”
The US President is oscillating between war and peace with Iran, because he also knows [...]
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The Saudi "East-West" gas pipeline: something is not right after all
Saudi Foreign Minister Prince Faisal bin Farhan still picked up the phone on Wednesday: on [...]
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A barrel of oil: Why only 200 US dollars?
Stock markets react to every announcement of the US president, the one about returning Iran [...]
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Barel: "Apocalypse now " in the Strait of Hormuz?
Threatening signals from Tehran and Washington fuel the darkest premonitions of the petro-exchange, that a [...]
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Bab el-Mandeb before the Houthi "blockade"?
The threat of the Yemeni Houthis to expand the front of the conflict beyond the [...]
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Donald Trump: “Time bomb" over the Persian Gulf?
Map: Wikimedia At this moment, the world public can only hope for the imminent end [...]
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Gibraltar: American "Gerald R. Ford" and Russian "Sparta IV" passed each other
Photo: Wikimedia (satellite) The arena of war threats in the Near and Middle East, and [...]
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Donald Trump: Washington chooses Alexandroupolis
American liquefied natural gas (LNG) does not yet participate significantly in the energy supply of [...]
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American-Iranian "magnet" in Muscat
Steve Witkoff, US President Donald Trump’s special envoy for the Middle East and peacekeeping missions, [...]
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Cape of Good Hope, three ambassadors and a catapult
USA and the Republic of South Africa: the largest economy in the world and the [...]
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Donald Trump: A barrel of oil in a "Persian rocket"
Map: Persian Gulf Wikimedia Launch is optional. As well as the disembarkation of troops. At [...]
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“Armada” between Iran and Diego Garcia
The world oil market “can’t stand it” after all: as of tonight (29.1.26) the news [...]
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