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Iran’s hurt, but war isn’t going well for US, its Arab allies, and the rest of us. Numbers show the pain ahead  What if this isn’t war but “a little excursion”, as Trump told Republican lawmakers on Monday? A colonialist’s hunting expedition. It gels with his other remark about ending it “soon”, because there’s “practically…

Iran’s hurt, but war isn’t going well for US, its Arab allies, and the rest of us. Numbers show the pain ahead  What if this isn’t really a big war, but just a “little excursion,” like Donald Trump told Republican leaders on Monday? Almost like someone going on a short hunting trip. That might explain…

It hasn’t been a great time for Winston Churchill. Because of the Iran war, many people are again talking about how he helped plan the 1953 Iranian coup d’état, which damaged Iran’s relationship with Western… Source link

In the elections that were finally held in Bangladesh (“BD”), the Bangladesh National Party (“BNP”) won a two-thirds majority. BD voters undoubtedly rejected the Jamaat Party, paving the way for Mr Tarique Rahman to become the new prime minister. Despite the recent chilling relations, India was represented at the swearing-in ceremony by Lok Sabha Speaker…

If you were asked the following questions in an interview, how would you handle them? I am providing my answers today so you can build on them. Why is there a concern about trust in AI and Gen AI? The machine learning model creation approximates the relationship between inputs and outputs. Models are probabilistic by…

Last month, tense negotiations between two major economies over critical minerals nearly stalled the global supply of essential technology components, sending shockwaves through industries from automotive to electronics. This high-stakes standoff spotlighted how the future of international commerce can hinge on the skills of trade diplomats working behind the scenes. As the global economy grows,…

Stopping LPG black market requires commercial supply restoration, market pricing, distributor audits Officially, there’s no shortage of LPG. Anecdotally, cylinders are selling for twice the official price. That means we have a black market in gas now. This is not surprising when LPG supply to commercial kitchens has been curbed. There’s logic behind govt’s order:…

‘Epic Fury’ could learn from real epic  How do I and my fellow Parsis react to the present insanity involving our original motherland, nucleus of  two far-flung Zoroastrian empires, Cyrus the Great’s Achaemenid and the later Sassanian? Obviously we didn’t support the repressive regressive Ayatollah Khomeini who in 1979 ousted Pahlavi Reza Shah. The tall,…

In the prevailing logic of great power competition, Iran seems to have a valuable function for China. For every dollar US spends, defending commercial shipping lanes in Red Sea, from Houthi anti-ship missiles, and for every multi-billion-dollar carrier strike group tethered to Persian Gulf, to deter Iranian aggression, there’s resource unavailable for deployment in Indo-Pacific….

“Buy when there’s blood in the streets, even if the blood is your own.” That gem is credited to Baron Nathan Rothschild, a member of the legendary, eponymous banking family. And that wasn’t just a smart quip. He lived by it. The Baron invested while the Battle of Waterloo was raging. He profited handsomely after…