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Dec 04 2025 
Global Trade News
“The genie is out of the bottle. The provocation of a “USV privateer war” on trade routes threatens to collapse global maritime trade.”
By Rotislav Ishchenko at ukraine.ru.
(machine translation)
The oil tanker Virat has been attacked twice by unmanned boats near the Bosphorus Strait. On one occasion, the ship Kairos was also set on fire. Western media… Continue reading
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May 30 2025 
When East and West can’t meet: Between Leviathan, Behemoth and Mandala
The first ever ASEAN-China-GCC trilateral summit was a de facto celebration of the New Silk Road spirit.
By Pepe Escobar at the Strategic Culture Foundation.
The first ever ASEAN-China-GCC trilateral summit earlier this week in Malaysia – with 17 Global South nations at the table – was a de facto celebration of the New Silk Road spirit.
Malaysian Prime… Continue reading
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Apr 21 2025 
The Houthis & Yemen: A History (and brought forward from a year ago)
Guest: Shireen Al-Adeimi is a non-resident fellow at the Quincy Institute for Responsible Statecraft and assistant professor of language and literacy at Michigan State University’s College of Education.
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An eloquent short historical profile of the Ansarullah movement by a fair critic from south Yemen. She is from Aden, the traditional rival… Continue reading
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Sep 26 2024 
China’s Global Security Initiative (GSI)
… and What it Means for the World. “No Global South without China!” A review of the 11th Beijing Xiangshan Forum, hosted by the People’s Liberation Army. 🔻 Heartland Economic blocs versus Occidental Military blocs.
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Aug 02 2024 
Thalassocracy were afraid of the St. Petersburg Parade
Russia was able to return to the concept of cheap deterrence of the thalassocracy with the limited use of its own fleet and the use of the potential of strong allies at sea.
By Rostislav Ishchenko
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“Rule Britain by the Waves” is not just a popular song and once an unofficial anthem of a power… Continue reading
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Jul 20 2024 
US Grand Strategy in the Middle East to Contain China
Hamas & unhackable Huawei? Fighting the last (energy denial) war against Imperial Japan, 85+ years later? And other Exceptionalist conundrums navigating “Strategery in our Greater Middle East.”
Carl Zha talks to long term Chine observer Peter Lee aka chinahand on X of the Peter Lee’s China Threat Report about the US Grand Strategy in the Middle… Continue reading
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Mar 22 2024 
Yemen’s Indian Ocean Checkmate
Ansarallah has single-handedly disrupted global shipping power dynamics. Yemen is launching attacks against Israeli-linked vessels deep into the Indian Ocean to cut off the last waterway route to the occupation state.
By Khalil Harb at The Cradle.
Our people are ready to send hundreds of thousands of mujahideen to Palestine. Okay, geography might pose a problem. It… Continue reading -
Mar 17 2024 
WHAT?! Yemen Just Closed the Indian Ocean to USUK Ships too
“… and all linked to zionists…”
Richard connects a terrible dot on the back of my mind! Yemen didn’t merely extend the Gauntlet to the Indian Ocean for the zionists, but to the same western parties they currently fight in the Red Sea. They closed the South Africa route to USUK and those of the combined… Continue reading
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Feb 26 2024 
Yemen’s fearless escalation
Yemen’s fearless escalation
Ansarullah challenge Egypt’s compliance with Israeli Gaza aid curbs
By Abdel Bari Atwan at Rai Al Youm
While many Arab governments that possess hundreds of tanks and warplanes have been passively watching Israel’s genocidal war on Gaza, the Yemeni government in Sanaa — though exhausted by eight years of war and suffocating blockade — has… Continue reading
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Jan 25 2024 
Yemeni ‘Asabiyyah Reshapes Geopolitics
To invoke Chinese wisdom, picture a single rock changing the course of a stream, which then changes the course of a mighty river.
by Pepe Escobar at The Cradle
“When there is a general change of conditions,
It is as if the entire creation had changed
and the whole world been altered,
as if it were a new and repeated… Continue reading -
Dec 29 2023 
How Yemen changed everything
In a single move, Yemen’s Ansarallah has checkmated the west and its rules-based order.
By Pepe Escobar and first posted at The Cradle.
Whether invented in northern India, eastern China or Central Asia – from Persia to Turkestan – chess is an Asian game. In chess, there always comes a time when a simple pawn is able… Continue reading
