The US Government seemed likely, by mid-September 2025, to escalate military and political pressure to curb Venezuela’s central role in narcotics trafficking to the US and, if possible, to cause the collapse of the Venezuelan Government of President Nicolás Maduro.
Ankara’s strategic balancing act is coming to an end, but can it achieve regional dominance before the cash and support runs out? Will the President risk conflict to forestall collapse?
How Italy’s strategic ambitions led to an end to the League of Nations and paved the way for World War II, the Cold War, and, indeed, the world of the 2020s.
Where does Iran go from here? How is the global balance changed — and it is being changed — by the emerging collapse of the Iranian theocratic, revolutionary Govern ment?
Imperial conquest is returning to the world in a new form, just as we have digested the earlier ages of imperial conquests.