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America’s ambassador, or what the appointment reveals
Wednesday, 29 April 2026 13:24 Written by Lito Monico C. Lorenzana
IMAGINE — if only as a diplomatic thought experiment — the Philippine Department of Foreign Affairs announcing, with ceremonial gravity, a new ambassador to Washington. Our most consequential ally. The anchor of our security architecture. The guarantor — at least on…
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Hormuz: The line that would not hold
Thursday, 23 April 2026 21:20 Written by Lito Monico C. Lorenzana
THERE are moments in foreign policy when action matters less than reaction — when what the world refuses to do tells you more than any display of force. Hormuz, after Iran closed it, was meant to prove American power. It…
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Islamabad and the return of the nuclear shadow
Thursday, 16 April 2026 02:23 Written by Lito Monico C. Lorenzana
MOST people are fixated by the wrong indicators. They track inflation, fuel prices, grocery bills, the slow suffocation of household budgets. They measure distress in pesos, dollars, liters, kilowatts. But history is rarely decided in supermarkets or at gasoline pumps.…
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The silent victor of the war in Iran
Wednesday, 08 April 2026 10:18 Written by Lito Monico C. Lorenzana
Last of a seriesTHE previous three installments of this series dissected how Donald Trump and Benjamin Netanyahu precipitated the Iran war. On the surface, Netanyahu’s influence over Trump offered a masterful study of the puppeteer’s craft. Yet, at a deeper…
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At the edge of madness
Friday, 03 April 2026 04:11 Written by Lito Monico C. Lorenzana
Last of a seriesBILLED as a clean decapitation strike, Operation “Epic Fury” fractured the post‑Cold War economic order triggering a cascading breakdown in global supply chains as longstanding guardrails erode. Donald Trump, pretending control over a conflict with no strategic…
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Architects of anarchy: Trump, Netanyahu, and the manufactured apocalypse
Thursday, 26 March 2026 04:21 Written by Lito Monico C. Lorenzana
Second of a seriesTHE geopolitical shock of February 2026 was no accident. It was a manufactured crisis, an engineered rupture authored by the Katzenjammer Kids of global politics: Donald Trump and Benjamin Netanyahu, acting with little regard for the consent…
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Architects of anarchy: Trump, Netanyahu, and the manufactured apocalypse
Thursday, 26 March 2026 06:20 Written by Lito Monico C. Lorenzana
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The week the world stopped: The Hormuz crisis
Wednesday, 18 March 2026 08:32 Written by Lito Monico C. Lorenzana
FIRST OF A SERIES SINCE Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini’s rise to power in the 1979 Islamic Revolution, removing him and his regime have always existed on the margins of American strategic thinking. However, it became a geopolitical obsession of one man:…
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