Donald Trump
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Open Thread: What’s new?
Open Thread, 24 September 2026. Agni opens with the Tata Sons and Tata Trusts dispute, the IIT Bombay student death and its politics, the US–Iran conflict and Indian energy, Trump…
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Inside Pakistan’s High-Stakes Gamble on Trump
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Open Trade: Peace Deal Reached
A one-line note on the oil price falling after Pakistan announced a US-Iran deal, asking who won, lost or drew, with peace reached on Trump’s 80th birthday.
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Mocking Modi Is the Only Nationalism Left-Liberals Know
X.T.M reads an anti-Modi cartoon on US tariffs as showing that India’s liberal critics now accept it belongs at the great-power table, and argues they offer no alternative to Modi’s…
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The Chess Masters Who Weren’t
X.T.M argues that the leaders cast as grand strategists, from Trump and Modi to Netanyahu, Milei and Orbán, are losing pieces. Op Sindoor, Hormuz, Lebanon and Hungary all cut against…
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The Façade of a rules‑based international order
Nachiketa argues that geopolitics runs on strategic interest, not ideology or cultural history, so India’s ties with Israel, Iran and Russia are pragmatic. He says Indians should not cheer the…
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A Deleted Tweet Just Moved the Oil Price 17%. Welcome to the New World.
X.T.M uses the oil price shock after the closure of the Strait of Hormuz, including a deleted US Energy Secretary tweet that moved prices 17 percent, to argue the global…
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What Tehran and Harvard Have in Common; And Why Trump Is Letting Both Burn
X.T.M announces the return of the BRAHM newsletter, whose first piece argues Iranian clerics and US academia both traded moral authority for proximity to power, and that Trump is letting…
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Open Thread Modi and Drumpf announce US-IND Trade deal
Open thread on the US-India trade deal. RecoveringNewsJunkie says Trump claims India will stop buying Russian oil and buy $500 billion of US goods, which Modi did not mention, and…
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Greenland, Trump, and the Comfort of White Intermediaries
X.T.M argues the Greenland debate is really about a pattern across settler-colonial societies, where Indigenous political power is mediated by white-presenting figures who are legible and safe to Western capitals,…
