Approximately 20 million barrels of crude oil passed through Hormuz in 2024. Close to 27 percent of all global maritime petroleum trade passed through the strait in the first quarter of 2025. The strait is a critical, narrow chokepoint, with a 33-39 kilometers waterway between Oman and Iran.

Trump told The New York Times that he had “three very good choices” in mind, regarding who could lead Iran. “I won’t be revealing them now. Let’s get the job done first,” he said. Trump also told The Atlantic, that he’s open to talk to Iranian leaders.

If the current government survives in weakened form, reform is unlikely to follow automatically. Studies of regimes under siege show that external pressure often strengthens coercive institutions rather than weakening them.

Unlike previous wars between Iran, US, and Israel, the current one hit the doorstep of seven gulf nations, throwing the entire region into a panic never seen before and it was Iran that dragged the other nations into it.

The negotiation was not diplomacy. It was surveillance, a mechanism to gather targeting intelligence, stall Iranian defensive preparations, and manufacture the appearance of a peaceful last resort.

Commanding Arctic waters and located nearer America than Europe, Greenland carries immense strategic value.

As institutional protections weaken, vulnerability grows. Align too closely and autonomy erodes. Resist alone and retaliation becomes costly. This is precisely why the defense of multilateralism cannot remain a Western project. It must include those who rely on it most.

In the post-July 2024 situation, Bangladesh has been facing several new strategic realities.

US global dominance has never been accidental. It comes from decades of strategy, adaptation, and the careful linking of finance, energy, military power, technology, maritime control and control over global resource flows.

The operation in Venezuela was therefore about more than drugs, oil, or technological prowess.

Trump has claimed that Venezuela stole “our” oil, and that his mission is to win it back.

For Bangladesh, the geopolitical stakes are profound and multifaceted.

The urgency to move away from fossil fuels and into renewables isn’t just about climate change anymore.

The Israel-Iran conflict is about who defines global legitimacy.

When evaluating India's current position, it is essential to consider broader geopolitical developments.

The US was pulled into Israel's war against Iran.

The confusion surrounding the scenarios ahead also arises from the US handling of the current conflict, which has been discordant.

In the unfolding Israel-Iran conflict, disinformation is not peripheral—it is central.

Trump’s strategy has devolved into a pattern of contradictions and disengagement.

In an interview with Dr Fernando M. Reimers, the Ford Foundation Professor of the Practice in International Education at Harvard.