The political transition in Bangladesh has ushered in a new era of hope, presenting a unique opportunity to rethink and reformulate several aspects of statecraft.

Described as "unbeatable" in defeat and "unbearable" in victory, Benjamin Netanyahu’s autobiography reveals the rigid historical convictions and special-forces discipline of Israel’s longest-serving leader.

As the United States signals a potential ground invasion targeting Iran's energy sector, Pakistan has taken on a precarious role as a key mediator in an attempt to prevent a wider regional war and global economic collapse.

The Iran conflict underscores the inadequacy of conventional strategic frameworks, revealing the indeterminacy, oscillation, and systemic interdependence that define contemporary warfare.

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.

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,

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.

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.