ECONOMICS & BUSINESS
Trade Winds: The New Global Distribution Pattern, Again
Global trade route patterns are entering a period of massive change in 2026.
ECONOMICS & BUSINESS
Global trade route patterns are entering a period of massive change in 2026.
PERSONNEL
Equatorial Guinea Vice-President Teodoro Nguema Obiang Mangue said on June 16, 2026, that the Government of Prime Minister Manuel Osa Nsue Nsua had resigned after “failing to meet its objectives”.
DIPLOMACY, ALLIANCES & TREATIES
SECURITY, UNREST & WAR
Ethiopia’s so-called civil war is very much a proxy war which is poised to transform the strategic balance in the greater Middle East, reducing the power of Egypt and the Suez Canal, Saudi Arabia, Iran, and the Persian Gulf’s Hormuz choke-point.
DIPLOMACY, ALLIANCES & TREATIES
Specific moves by the United States and Türkiye cause concern in Israel while also negatively affecting Greece and Cyprus.
DIPLOMACY, ALLIANCES & TREATIES
STRATEGY & INTELLIGENCE
The most important, least invested, security priority
HARDWARE, WEAPONRY & TECHNOLOGY
Global defense industrial thinking is becoming far more entrepreneurial and creative as major defense forces break with absolute strategic integration with the US, or any other major power.
HARDWARE, WEAPONRY & TECHNOLOGY
The Turkish defense complex keeps moving toward the nuclearization of its strategic capabilities, from nuclear powered submarines – SSNs or SSGNs – as well as nuclear weapons. And Israel seems set to confront Türkiye before this becomes an operational reality.
HARDWARE, WEAPONRY & TECHNOLOGY
It seems likely that the US share of the global defense marketplace will begin to peak within the next few years, and then enter a period of decline.
HARDWARE, WEAPONRY & TECHNOLOGY
Türkiye must now be considered a nuclear weapons state, or at least an incipient nuclear weapons state.
DIPLOMACY, ALLIANCES & TREATIES
Türkiye is attempting to control the global landscape of non-governmental organizations (NGOs) through the United Nations in order to exert coercive policies and pressure on countries within its sphere of influence and interest.