Iran has followed the Chinese model as one can see from its defiance of crippling sanctions to build excellent healthcare, education and nuclear-free defence that has shocked the world.

There never was an international system holding it all together. We’re in a more turbulent phase, where Russia has been bogged down in a war in the backyard, and China is in economic warfare with the US. So the Middle East is really the place where the battle is happening, because a project like Israel is showing it is a strong, destabilising force that can be used by the US empire. Israel can be a ruthless criminal willing to do anything, for their colonial project to survive.

In the moments when the maps of the world shake, the danger of war is not only in the missiles, but in the minds that run them, in the language that justifies them,

Today, however, the global economy is increasingly multipolar. Manufacturing capacity, technological development, and financial influence are distributed across several major centres rather than concentrated within a single hegemonic order.

Over the past two weeks, there have been more questions about Bangladesh’s energy situation than about any other topic in recent memory.

In the game of strategic balancing, Bangladesh is now navigating between securing energy supplies and maintaining geopolitical balance.

Bangladesh spends a lot of energy explaining itself, to investors, multilateral lenders, and regional partners.

Veteran diplomat, M Humayun Kabir, explains the current escalation of war in the Middle East and the ramifications for Bangladesh, in an exclusive interview with Ramisa Rob, Geopolitical Insights Editor at The Daily Star

To Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney, “the global rules-based order” faces “rupture.” He had US President Donald J. Trump in mind. A month later, Trump illustrated how he does it.

For Bangladesh, supporting Pakistan subtly advances "Bangladesh First" by fostering a South Asian balance of power. It navigates through turbulent waters amidst India-Pakistan hostility, China-India rivalry, amid Teesta disputes, and Sheikh Hasina's extradition demands.

For Iran and its allies, the Iranian regime’s stake is what matters over the people.

Every pressure point this crisis is exposing, on energy, food, remittances, and foreign exchange, is also a signpost pointing toward what Bangladesh needs to build. The pressures are significant, they are immediate, and four of them are converging at once.

Actors like Palantir Technologies, Anduril Industries, Microsoft, NVIDIA, and OpenAI are among the core structures of this mili-tech industrial complex. These companies are producing AI systems for almost every action on the battlefield that was previously performed by a soldier.

Wars rarely begin with clarity. But they become dangerous when they continue without it.

It is no longer possible to treat what is happening in the Middle East as a passing round of escalation or simply another war added to the region’s long record of conflict.

Different governments came into power in the US for the past decades. Some tried to improve the condition in Cuba, but all have been made null and void by President Trump, who has vowed to remove the present Cuban government.

On Wednesday, the Spanish Prime Minister doubled down on his position to stand against violence, refusing to bow down to Trump’s bullying.

When news broke of Israeli and United States strikes on Iran, panic spread across Gaza almost instantly. Palestinians remembered previous escalations when border crossings were abruptly sealed, triggering shortages that spiraled into famine-like conditions.

he outbreak of the Iran-US-Israel war is a watershed event in the geopolitics and geo-economics of the 21st century. If the war is prolonged, it would have transformative effects on numerous states throughout the world.

A new government in Dhaka must navigate layered expectations at home and abroad. Public sentiment in a Muslim-majority country is closely attuned to developments in the Middle East.