Selected Tag: United States
Selected Tag: United States

American Mania and the Drift Toward Strategic Hubris

A culture wired for competition and expansion may explain why American power often slides from confident leadership into strategic overreach.

R. Gurumurthy

March 7, 2026 at 3:02 PM IST

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US Treasury Secretary Says Allowed India to Buy Russian Crude Oil for 30 Days

BasisPoint Insight

March 6, 2026 at 3:32 AM IST

The Strait of Hormuz on Edge and India’s Fiscal Reckoning

With Iran at war and Hormuz under threat, energy, fertiliser and fiscal risks are rising fast. Geopolitics is now embedded in price.

Yield Scribe

March 3, 2026 at 12:43 PM IST

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Geopolitics

How Bombing Iran May Blow Back on America

The fact that Donald Trump could unleash the immense power of the US military against Iran with brazen disregard for facts and law will only embolden him to use such powers again.

Aziz Huq

March 3, 2026 at 4:09 AM IST

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Oil Shock Arithmetic Under a Wider West Asia Conflict

A widening US-Iran conflict raises oil, inflation and CAD risks for India, with fiscal trade-offs sharpening if crude sustains above $65 per barrel.

Madhavi Arora

March 1, 2026 at 5:46 PM IST

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Geopolitics

Trump’s Risky War of Choice in Iran

Once again, the US has opted to make a massive strategic commitment in the Middle East. But while it takes only one side to begin a war, it takes two to end it – and Iran now has a vote in how big this conflict becomes and how long it continues.

Richard Haass

March 1, 2026 at 2:12 PM IST

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Iran Crisis Threatens Global Oil Flow and India

Iran is unlikely to resemble Venezuela-style regime collapse scenarios. Iran’s political system rests on powerful parallel institutions — the clerical establishment, the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps, and entrenched nationalist sentiment — making rapid external regime engineering improbable.

Ajay Srivastava

March 1, 2026 at 12:15 PM IST

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Geopolitics

Escalation Pathways and Strategic Risk in the Middle East

After the reported killing of Iran’s supreme leader, the conflict shifts from deterrence to strategic shock, raising urgent questions over containment and escalation pathways.

Lt Gen Syed Ata Hasnain (Retd)

March 1, 2026 at 7:27 AM IST

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Future to be Authored, Not Avoided by Probabilistic Pessimism

By assigning high odds to global disorder, the Economic Survey risked framing uncertainty as paralysis. Public policy must govern the future, not hedge it.

V Thiagarajan

January 31, 2026 at 3:57 PM IST

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