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While Tehran leaps at Washington’s throat and cuts off the last American hope of locking down the Heartland by controlling the Rimland, and Trump is falling out with his NATO counterparts in Ankara, at the same time, Lavrov is taking the West by surprise on its southern flank.

The Takaichi visit shows that India and Japan are hedging their bets as faith in U.S. security guarantees wanes, seeking deeper economic and defense cooperation to navigate a shifting Indo-Pacific order. Yet, despite the fanfare, the partnership remains more a marriage of necessity than a strategic revolution, constrained by differing interests and the realities of regional geopolitics.

The deal America signed to end the war with Iran may do more to entrench Chinese power in the Middle East than any agreement Beijing could have negotiated for itself.