Donald Trump is dangling the world on a two-week timeline—teasing “decisive action” against Iran’s nuclear program while brandishing bunker busters and flexing his love of brinkmanship.
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Benjamin Netanyahu is in full wartime mode, proclaiming “tremendous victory” over Iran while simultaneously justifying intensifying Israeli attacks, including those hitting civilian hospitals. Netanyahu’s blend of victimhood and vengeance has never felt more globally consequential, nor more cynically choreographed. After an Iranian missile strike hit an Israeli hospital, the Israeli response has been a rapid,
South Asia’s favorite political soap opera is back on screens, starring Narendra Modi and Donald Trump in their most familiar roles: Modi as the guardian of India’s “strategic autonomy,” Trump as the compulsive credit-claimer. The latest season’s plot twist? A sudden ceasefire between India and Pakistan, first reported as a diplomatic breakthrough, only for Modi
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Donald Trump has again seized the global microphone, this time leveraging the spiraling conflict between Israel and Iran as both political fuel and personal theatre. In an echo of his most bellicose moments, Trump is publicly demanding Iran’s “unconditional surrender”—a phrase that has set diplomatic alarm bells ringing from Washington to Moscow and everywhere US
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As of 17 June 2025, Iran’s Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei is rejecting Donald Trump’s calls for “unconditional surrender,” threatening “irreparable consequences” if the US intervenes in the spiraling Israel-Iran conflict.
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As of 18 June 2025, Viktor Orbán’s Hungary is celebrating tax cuts, rolling out fiscal smoke and mirrors, and escalating anti-Ukraine rhetoric—proving once again that illiberalism is less a model than a survival strategy.
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Nayib Bukele is turning El Salvador into a global case study in 21st-century authoritarianism—buying Bitcoin, jailing thousands, and exporting the model with a social media grin and iron-fisted resolve.
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Nicolás Maduro is playing both travel agent and supreme commander—offering flights out while insisting the Venezuelan oil machine is back in business, even as the country breaks new records for mass exodus.
As of 17 June 2025, India’s Prime Minister Narendra Modi is basking in diplomatic fanfare—from Cyprus, where he received the nation’s top honor and advanced trade corridor plans, to the G7 stage in Canada, where India’s growing clout is impossible to ignore.
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As of 17 June 2025, Saudi Arabia’s execution of journalist Turki al-Jasser for so-called “anti-royal” posts marks the regime’s most chilling warning to digital dissenters yet—proving that in the Kingdom, a tweet can be a capital offense.
