James Thorne

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  • May 28, 2026
    Halford Mackinder, not the United Nations, is the man to have in mind when looking at Trump’s Iran diplomacy.
  • May 19, 2026
    The pause of the Permanent Joint Board on Defence is not just a bureaucratic squabble; it is Washington’s opening move in a larger strategic game is to force Canada out of its...
  • May 9, 2026
    America is approaching 250 with a question larger than any election cycle: Is it still a living republic, or has it become a managed inheritance drifting toward elegant...
  • May 7, 2026
    We are back in an era of hard resource power and Mahanian sea power. Geography matters again. Chokepoints matter again. Energy, food, minerals, and shipping routes matter again....
  • May 6, 2026
    Winston Churchill, as first lord of the Admiralty, tied Britain’s fate to Persian oil. United States President Donald Trump’s war in Iran, centred on Operation Epic Fury,...
  • Apr 28, 2026
    The United Arab Emirates’ decision to leave OPEC is not just another quarrel inside an oil cartel. It is a move in the New Great Game taking shape across energy, trade routes...
  • Apr 21, 2026
    The prevailing narrative on Iran has it almost perfectly reversed. We are told that Tehran is winning a war of wills in the Gulf and that Donald Trump is gambling recklessly with the...
  • Apr 15, 2026
    Hu Jintao warned China about this moment more than twenty years ago. In 2003, the then Chinese president coined the phrase “Malacca dilemma” to describe a simple, brutal...
  • Apr 11, 2026
    U.S. President Donald Trump’s second term is not just another burst of tariff theatre; it is the opening move in a new great game over energy, artificial intelligence (AI), and...