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Vincent James HooperThe Times of Israel (Blogs) |
Operation Epic Fury Has Exposed the Catastrophic Gap Between Defence Spending and Defence Capability The United Kingdom has, depending on the source,...
There is a question that now hangs over British foreign policy like an unpaid invoice: what, precisely, does Keir Starmer mean when he invokes...
Valuation, Contagion, and the Abraham Accords Economy Operation Epic Fury has sharpened a question that the Abraham Accords economy can no longer...
A message landed in my inbox recently from a contact whose grandfather had predicted that World War Three would begin in the Middle East. The...
Hormuz was not shut by a naval blockade. It was shut by an insurance withdrawal. For decades, the closure of the Strait of Hormuz sat in the annals of...
On a June night in 2025, roughly 150 Iranian ballistic missiles streaked toward Israel. Within milliseconds, artificial intelligence algorithms aboard...
Operation Epic Fury has done more than devastate Iran’s ballistic missile infrastructure. It has detonated the strategic assumptions underpinning...
When you hedge everything, you end up exposed to everything In options trading, the worst possible outcome is not a losing position — it is...
As Shahed drones expose British vulnerability, Paris builds the infrastructure for a Mediterranean power transition Shortly after midnight on 2 March...
How Unverified Claims About Gulf Defense Capabilities Undermine Journalism and Regional Stability In the fog of war, the press bears an extraordinary...
In 1884, Henri Louis Le Chatelier articulated a principle of extraordinary elegance: when a system in equilibrium is subjected to an external stress,...
Last week, Prince William stood beside Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman at the At-Turaif UNESCO World Heritage Site in Riyadh—two future kings, one...
In the world of derivatives, there is a concept known as a “deep out-of-the-money option.” It is a contract that most rational actors never expect...
Israel’s national debt has surged to historic levels. By the end of 2024, total government debt reached NIS 1.33 trillion — roughly $364 billion...
Israeli politicians treat the United States as a civilisational mirror — a fellow frontier society, restlessly entrepreneurial, divinely ordained...
In the conflict over Israel-Palestine, competing claims to indigeneity are wielded as rhetorical weapons. Both sides invoke history, archaeology, and...
In June 2023, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu stood before cameras and declared that Israel would become a “global communications centre.” The...
Institutions, like currencies, derive their value from trust. And like currencies, that trust can be inflated away through reckless issuance of claims...
The timing could hardly be more exquisite in its irony. As Keir Starmer stood in Beijing’s Great Hall of the People this week, pledging a...