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The US seizure of Nicolas Maduro and control over Venezuela’s oil marks a significant blow to China’s influence in Latin America. This move, rerouting billions in crude to the US, undermines Beijing’s decade-long economic diplomacy and its strategy of championing sovereignty. It signals that economic ties don’t guarantee protection against US military power. When US…
The TOI correspondent from Washington: In a cascade of incendiary remarks following the unprecedented US military operation that captured Venezuelan strongman Nicolás Maduro, US President Donald Trump has warned of action against Colombia, Cuba, Mexico and other nations, signaling an assertive and muscular reinterpretation of US hemispheric influence, now dubbed the “Donroe Doctrine.” Speaking to…
US President Donald Trump (AP) The TOI correspondent from Washington: There is growing apprehension that US President Donald Trump is walking Washington into a quagmire in Venezuela after Delcy Rodriguez, his anointed successor to the ousted and abducted Nicolas Maduro, defiantly pledged allegiance to the deposed strongman. In provocative remarks that have shocked the world,…
Sudarshan – surface-to-air defence system NEW DELHI: The “new normal” in India’s national security playbook took on a harder edge in 2025. Under Prime Minister Narendra Modi, the country’s zero-tolerance doctrine against terrorism, especially the kind nurtured across the border in Pakistan, became not just policy but a mindset. For years, Pakistan has acted much…
Driving the newsUS President Donald Trump has moved from sanctions to open military enforcement with his “total and complete blockade” of Venezuela. Announced on Truth Social, the policy is being enforced by 11 US Navy ships stationed around Venezuela’s coast and airstrikes on suspected smuggling vessels.Two Chinese-owned oil tankers have been seized in international waters….
Image created with help of AI Driving the newsThe Donald Trump administration’s 2025 National Security Strategy (NSS) doesn’t just chart a course-it redraws the map. Released quietly at night, the 29-page document abandons decades of bipartisan foreign-policy orthodoxy in favor of a singular, transactional view of global power-and puts India at the crossroads.In this Trumpian…
NEW DELHI: With the successful testing of a newly-raised integrated ‘Rudra’ all-arms brigade in the major tri-Service Trishul exercise on the western front with Pakistan, the Army may now well upgrade its ‘Cold Start’ doctrine to ‘Cold Strike’ for swifter and greater offensive thrusts into enemy territory.This doctrinal evolution has gained ground after Southern Army…
FILE – Vice President Dick Cheney is seen during a medal ceremony and rally with troops at Camp Speicher, Iraq, Thursday, May 10, 2007. (AP Photo/Gerald Herbert, file) Dick Cheney, America’s most powerful modern vice president and the architect of the “war on terror”, has died at 84. His death closes a turbulent chapter in…
