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Week signals: Bad things come in three

Sailing the Seas Depends on the Helmsman

Fuel to the fire

The straits narrow

House out of cards

A change of plans

Week signals: The more things change

Red Sea to a bull market

Midterm crisis

Crude awakening

Can Iran outlast Trump?

Crossroads of the Red Sea

Achilles and Troika

Week signals: The third option

No war but the one you started

Strait and hollow

Doing it the hard way

Six months under

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Attrition and subtraction

Week signals: Independence Day II

Turf war

Crowded field

What’s mined is yours

T-Day [corrected]

Something TACO this way comes

Week signals: The Natalies land at D-Day

All schtick, no carrot

Dollars, debt, Donald, defeat [corrected]

Dollars, debt, Donald, defeat

Trading insults

Adding and subtracting

Inappropriate and hostile

Week signals: Return of the middlemen

Black Sea, blue ocean, grey zone

Rhymes with lame duck

Bop till you drop

Threading camels in haystacks

Iran, the Red Sea, Europe and the UK

Low-keying, high-tailing

Week signals: Throwing stones in greenhouses

No more cards

Putting the Persian in the Gulf

When losing is winning

Look who’s talking

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Dial T for TACO

Week signals: Playing with the ring of fire

Camp David and Goliath

Strait, cross, hook, uppercut

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Muwaffaq Salti in the wound

The futures that didn't jump in the night

Sitting on a bayonet

Week signals: The prick in Beijing

For whom Iran tolls [corrected]

For whom Iran tolls

An eye for a power plant

Tough axe to follow

New front, Houthis?

Tipping the scales

Irregular: Emu in the coal mine

Week signals: The lessons of ‘73

Race to the riggings

Stocks, not strikes

Chip off the old blockade

As certain as death and TACOs

Iran Briefing

Fourth time unlucky

Week signals: Populism ad absurdum

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Making a killing

Temptation island

85 strikes and a funeral

Burning time

Istanbul, not Kostiantynivka

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Week signals: The Tocqueville Test

Fire and fury

Beyond the grave

The tortoise and the harebrained

Oman’s toll is another man’s transit fee

Over a barrel

Irregular: What's your pigeon?

Week signals: Claim Canada?

Northern exposure

It takes two to contango

A Republican Party, if you can keep it

The sheep and the scapegoats

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Playing a weak hand

Week signals: Failed in Lorestan, try Havana

Memorandum of unravelling

The choice between war and dishonour

All her persecutors overtook her between the straits

Signed, still sealed, undelivered

Have I got a deal for you

Week signals: Is the deal real?

Ukraine, Iran, Cuba and Xi hosting Trump and Putin

Three-demented chess

Hit me Bibi one more time

Punch to the jawbone

Closure and no cigar

Reminder: Monthly Roundtable Discussion

Calling the bluffs

Week signals: Cracks in the reflecting pool

Oman cannot serve two masters

No war but the trade war

Boring but important

Hope over experience

Snatching quagmire from the jaws of surrender

Week signals: Versions of the truce

Engine in the ceasefire place

Invitation to join our June Private Roundtable

The sincerest form of flattery

A truce stranger than fiction

Abraham’s knot

The desert of the deal

Are you the “geopolitics person” at work?

Week signals: Here be dragons

Invitation to treaty

Still in the pipeline

Double shot

The Strait and the crooked

Clock in the henhouse

Irregular: More Concerned, Less Prepared

Week signals: The other Thucydides trap

Weak hand, empty pocket

Quick wins, long march

Stop talking about Epic Fury

Acute stress reaction

The abyss stares back

Irregular: 5 steps for managing geopolitical risk

Week signals: Is the confidence trick over?

All's trapped in love and war

The Iran War and President Trump's China visit: A private discussion with Geopolitical Dispatch

One last squeeze

TACO a break

The punishing sea

Projecting confidence

Irregular: Hedgehogs, foxes and history in real time

Week signals: No country for old kings

Inshallah Habibi

Uncertainty and agitation

Emirates leaving the ship

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Rates of attrition

The media is the message

Week signals: The Manichaean candidate

What's good for the goose is good for Malacca

Worse things happen at sea

Deadlocked and unloaded

Mutually assured obstruction

Diminishing returns

Week signals: Out of the box thinking

Fork in the ring road

A cock and bull story

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Après TACO, le déluge

First, do no Hormuz

Islamabad to worse

Week signals: Amid the fog of ceasefires

Green in judgment, cold in blood

Veni, vidi, Vance

Art of the ordeal

Understanding the war in Iran: A private discussion with Geopolitical Dispatch experts

Stone age, glass houses

Puppet show

The bus flying into the ditch

Schrödinger's war

Kharg before the horses

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Fire and Epic Fury

Week signals: The Silk Roads ahead

What's the most you ever lost on a coin toss?

War-war, not jaw-jaw

Fake it till you take it

Strange TACOs in the bazaar

The TACOs come home to roost

Week signals: Sunk-boat fallacy

A bridge too far

Beyond the point of choking

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Chum in the water

Improvise, adapt, overcome

A petrodollar short

Week signals: Down the Suez

Hormuz of a dilemma

Flooding the zone

What's mined is yours

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Mission unaccomplished

Blind fury

Week signals: Iran but you can’t hide

Thoughts and prayers

Sinking ships

Iran amok

Unpacking the Iran war and what to expect, Q&A with an expert

Roaring Lion wags the dog

Be careful what you wish for

Iran, I saw, I conquered?

Week signals: Two strikes, but is Iran out?

Lifting the veil

Dealing with devils

Sermons on the mountebanks

The siege of MAGA

Invitation: March Private Roundtable

Bad lever event

Week signals: Always. Be. Coercing.

Mirror for princes

Chagos before destruction

Guiding the principals

Irregular: Munich Insecurity Conference

The horse has bolted

Geneva contentions

Week signals: The European unicorn

The profligate son returns

Two houses, both alike in enmity

Dubai now, pay later

Bridges to burn

Great wave

Irregular: You'll never, never know

Week signals: The ruse-based order

Mano-Omano

Recording and transcript: February private roundtable

Xi at the core

Shahed across the bow

Snake oil

Setting the trap

Week signals: Third personalism

My friend’s enemy is my enemy’s friend

Weapons of mass distraction

Reminder: February private roundtable

Tehran Always Calculates Outcomes

Spending for a rainy day

Winter of discontent

Irregular: Board of Peace

Week signals: The madness in the method

And then there were three

All tip, no iceberg

The wolf at the door

Irregular: On thin ice

North by Midwest

Polar vortex

Irregular: What’s the probability the Iranian regime falls?

Invitation: February private roundtable

Irregular: You really had to be there

Special edition: The iceman cometh

Americas first

Special edition: Oils well that ends well

The Year Ahead: Into the wildcards