President Donald Trump announced last week that he had secured a historic trade agreement with India. The terms, as he described them, were unambiguous: Prime Minister Narendra Modi had committed to cease purchases of Russian oil, and in exchange the United States would reduce tariffs on Indian goods from twenty-five percent to eighteen percent. India would redirect its demand toward American and Venezuelan barrels. Trump cast this as a strategic blow to Vladimir Putin’s war machine, a tariff...

President Donald Trump announced last week that he had secured a historic trade agreement with India. The terms, as he described them, were unambiguous: Prime Minister Narendra Modi had committed to cease purchases of Russian oil, and in exchange the United States would reduce tariffs on Indian goods from twenty-five percent to eighteen percent. India would redirect its demand toward American and Venezuelan barrels. Trump cast this as a strategic blow to Vladimir Putin’s war machine, a tariff...

Venezuela’s political class treated the U.S. raid that removed Nicolás Maduro less as an invasion than as an opportunity. Delcy Rodríguez’s rise and abrupt tone shift make it hard to ignore the possibility of an internal calculation, or at least quiet acquiescence, even if no one has produced a smoking gun. The near absence of Venezuelan military resistance, the fact that the clearly identified dead are Cuban officers guarding Maduro, and the speed with which institutions rallied behind Rodrí...

Venezuela’s political class treated the U.S. raid that removed Nicolás Maduro less as an invasion than as an opportunity. Delcy Rodríguez’s rise and abrupt tone shift make it hard to ignore the possibility of an internal calculation, or at least quiet acquiescence, even if no one has produced a smoking gun. The near absence of Venezuelan military resistance, the fact that the clearly identified dead are Cuban officers guarding Maduro, and the speed with which institutions rallied behind Rodrí...

Trump’s decision to say the United States will “run” Venezuela after Nicolás Maduro’s capture turns what was already a risky energy gambit into an open experiment in occupation politics built around an extra heavy oil province. It sharpens the impression, in OPEC capitals and across the Global South, that Washington is not merely backing a transition but intends to shape directly how Venezuela’s reserves are governed, marketed, and aligned with United States strategic goals.Paper reserves vs ...

Trump’s decision to say the United States will “run” Venezuela after Nicolás Maduro’s capture turns what was already a risky energy gambit into an open experiment in occupation politics built around an extra heavy oil province. It sharpens the impression, in OPEC capitals and across the Global South, that Washington is not merely backing a transition but intends to shape directly how Venezuela’s reserves are governed, marketed, and aligned with United States strategic goals.Paper reserves vs ...

Thomas Massie has built a career out of refusing to nod along. The Republican congressman from Kentucky’s 4th District has become a stubborn anomaly in Washington: a libertarian‑leaning engineer who votes against wars, surveillance, sanctions, and emergency mega‑bills even when his own party demands unity. In an era when the United States projects power across the globe and deep into its own citizens’ lives, his lonely “no” votes have turned him into a kind of institutional heretic, one of th...

Thomas Massie has built a career out of refusing to nod along. The Republican congressman from Kentucky’s 4th District has become a stubborn anomaly in Washington: a libertarian‑leaning engineer who votes against wars, surveillance, sanctions, and emergency mega‑bills even when his own party demands unity. In an era when the United States projects power across the globe and deep into its own citizens’ lives, his lonely “no” votes have turned him into a kind of institutional heretic, one of th...

NATO Secretary General Mark Rutte pulled off what many thought impossible this week at the World Economic Forum in Davos. After a private meeting with President Donald Trump, he convinced the American leader to back down from his aggressive push to acquire Greenland, replacing threats of military action and tariffs with what both men are calling a "framework of a future deal." Trump abandoned plans to impose 10 percent tariffs on eight European nations and ruled out using force to take the Da...

NATO Secretary General Mark Rutte pulled off what many thought impossible this week at the World Economic Forum in Davos. After a private meeting with President Donald Trump, he convinced the American leader to back down from his aggressive push to acquire Greenland, replacing threats of military action and tariffs with what both men are calling a "framework of a future deal." Trump abandoned plans to impose 10 percent tariffs on eight European nations and ruled out using force to take the Da...