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The loosely defined initiative will reportedly be pitched to foreign governments by the State Department · Satellite view of the Strait of Hormuz with lines representing global shipping lanes. © Getty Images / Alones Creative · The US is set to pitch foreign governments on a new initiative for controlling the Strait of Hormuz, with participation explicitly excluding “adversaries” Russia and China, according to media reports. · The proposal…

The UK-led grouping will include the Netherlands, Nordic nations, and the Baltic states, according to the country’s first sea lord · FILE PHOTO: The Royal Navy aircraft carrier HMS Queen Elizabeth arriving at the Portsmouth harbour. © Getty Images / Andrew Matthews · Britain and other north European states will create a naval force outside of NATO to counter Russia, first sea lord and chief of naval staff in the UK, General Gwyn Jenkins, has…

Abu Dhabi’s break with the oil cartel is less about barrels than power – testing Riyadh, helping Trump, and redrawing Gulf alliances · By Murad Sadygzade, President of the Middle East Studies Center, Visiting Lecturer, HSE University (Moscow) · © Getty Images / Buena Vista Images · Although the United Arab Emirates has tried to present its upcoming exit from OPEC and the wider OPEC+ framework as part of its sovereign energy strategy and…

Vladimir Zelensky © Beata Zawrzel / NurPhoto via Getty Images · The public was given a rare opportunity this week to see how the Ukrainian wartime economy, much praised by the media, actually operates. And everyone knows the saying about not knowing how the sausage is made. · Western media has hailed Ukraine for being highly innovative in fighting Russia, both in frontline tactics and the development of technologies, primarily drone warfare.…

The US president has for months been urging his Israeli counterpart Isaac Herzog to absolve the prime minister, who is facing corruption charges · US President Donald Trump and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu outside the White House in Washington, DC. © Alex Wong / Getty Images · US President Donald Trump has called on his Israeli counterpart Isaac Herzog to pardon Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, who is facing charges of bribery,…

RT composite. © Getty Images / Maksym Kishka / Frontliner; Kativ; Peter Dazeley; Jewish community of Dnepropetrovsk; AP Photo / Efrem Lukatsky · The Ukrainian Defense Ministry must cut its ties with a drone maker touted globally by Vladimir Zelensky and linked to fugitive businessman Timur Mindich, his longtime associate, the ministry’s Public Anti-Corruption Council has said. · The permanent advisory board issued a damning statement on the…

The British monarch’s trip showcases an alliance held together by shared complicity and decline · By Tarik Cyril Amar, a historian from Germany working at Koç University, Istanbul, on Russia, Ukraine, and Eastern Europe, the history of World War II, the cultural Cold War, and the politics of memory · © Andrew Harnik / Getty Images · King Charles III has gone to Washington, ostensibly to help the transatlantic cousins celebrate getting rid of…

Washington’s proposed initiative signals a shift from crisis response to long-term strategic positioning in one of the world’s most critical energy corridors · elocal report on the reaserach document "IRAN AND THE STRAIT OF HORMUZ A Four-Pillar Analysis of History, Law, Strategy, and the Record of Disruption" authored by  MoonGeezerTalk | moongeezertalk@gmail.com | April 2026 · A critical chokepoint under pressure · The Strait of Hormuz…

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