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Nine years after the exodus, one million Rohingya are in Cox's Bazar on $7 food rations. More are still crossing from Myanmar. The world's attention is on the Strait of Hormuz. Nobody is talking pragmatically about that.
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Nine years after the exodus, one million Rohingya are in Cox's Bazar on $7 food rations. More are still crossing from Myanmar. The world's attention is on the Strait of Hormuz. Nobody is talking pragmatically about that.
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Bessent promised the greatest coordinated economic isolation in the history of the world. He specifically declined to sanction Chinese financial institutions. China refused to cooperate within 24 hours. The isolation requires China. China has said no.
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MBS has said three times in public: if Iran gets a nuclear weapon, Saudi Arabia will too. The Iran war was supposed to prevent that condition. The MOU collapsed without a nuclear deal. Trump signed a civilian nuclear deal with Saudi Arabia. The door may be open.
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The Islamabad Memorandum's 60-day deadline expired August 17 without a nuclear deal. Iran spent those 60 days giving the IRGC greater military control and accelerating missile production. Trump called for surrender. Iran promised strategic surprises. The pause was not symmetric.
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Lebanon abolished the death penalty on August 11, the first in the Middle East. The same parliament cannot enforce Israeli withdrawal from its south or prosecute the Beirut port explosion. The moral ambition and the institutional failure live in the same building.
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