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Global Affairs   Session 115   24 October 2026 ALBANIA BURNING! Students Revolt | Parliament Erupts | Trump’s Son-in-Law & Europe’s New Political Crisis

Global Affairs   Session 114   22 October 2026 GRAND BARGAIN, GRANDER RISKS Trump–Putin grand bargain? | Ukraine, Iran, Petrodollar at Stake

Global Affairs   Session 113   21 October 2026 IRAN WAR 2.0 Trump Netanyahu's election gamble | US–Israel prepare to strike

Global Affairs Session 112 20 October 2026 EUROPE'S FAR-RIGHT REVOLT Elections that can change Europe

Global Affairs  Session 111  19 October 2026 SAUDI ARABIA'S WAR TRAP Egypt's Proposed Intervention, Houthi Attacks & the Pakistan–Turkey Defence Pact

Global Affairs  Session 110  17 October 2026 CHATGPT HQ BUGGED FBI arrests Saudi national | AI security scare!

Global Affairs  Session 109  16 October 2026 IRAN’S HORMUZ CHOKEHOLD BREAKING Hormuz, the US naval blockade and global consequences

Global Affairs  Session 108  15 October 2026 PAKISTAN’S KHYBER PAKHTUNKHWA CRISIS Afghanistan–Pak conflict & implications for India, Iran and China

Global Affairs Session 107 12 October 2026 THE END OF THE HOUSE OF SAUD? A Kingdom Under Siege

Global Affairs Session 106 9 October 2026 RUSSIAN WRATH Ukraine and Europe under stress

Global Affairs Session 105 8 October 2026 REVOLTS EVERYWHERE World erupts in protests In 2026, citizens across twenty countries have taken to the streets over education, living costs, corruption, political representation, public safety and civil liberties.

Global Affairs Session 104 6 October 2026 ANSAR ALLAH UNDER ATTACK Saudi strikes back Ansar Allah’s September offensive transformed Yemen’s war by seizing Red Sea territory, reaching Bab al-Mandeb and tightening pressure around Taiz. Now, Saudi-backed Yemeni forces have strongly counterattacked with Saudi air support. Riyadh has also activated the Mecca JDA (collective defence arrangement) with Türkiye and Pakistan. The crisis now connects Yemen’s fractured battlefield with Saudi homeland security, oil infrastructure, maritime trade, regional deterrence and the wider confrontation involving Iran and its partners, with Israel playing its own game.

Global Affairs Session 103 5 October 2026 SPACE WARS ARRIVING New contest in LEO? Space is no longer simply a support environment for warfare; it increasingly shapes deterrence. Ukraine wants sanctions on entities enabling Russia’s Rassvet constellation. Russia’s Medvedev responded that blocking Rassvet would mean destroying it and warned of a space warfare involving Starlink. Behind the rhetoric lies a larger shift: commercial constellations, sovereign alternatives, military networks, cyber operations, anti-satellite weapons, debris risks, and unsettled rules for conflict in orbit.

Global Affairs Session 102 3 October 2026 FRENCH TURMOIL Crisis in France explained France is experiencing a severe triple crisis spanning (a) violent street unrest, (b) a deepening national debt emergency, and (c) absolute political gridlock in parliament. High school protests over staffing, overcrowding, buildings and resources have spread nationwide, bringing closures, arrests and clashes. Sébastien Lecornu’s minority government is pursuing €54 billion in 2027 savings while public debt stands at 119 percent of GDP. The crisis reflects France’s protest tradition and unfolds amid wider European economic pressures across the continent.

Global Affairs Session 101 30 September 2026 BYE-BYE MIDDLE EAST Middle East with no master America is not simply leaving the Middle East. Something larger may be unfolding: Washington is relinquishing its role as regional architect after decades of wars, bases and interventions that failed to create durable order. Iran's proxy network, Turkey and Israel are repositioning, Arab states face a strategic reckoning, and no outside power appears ready to replace America's security umbrella alone.

Global Affairs Session 100 28 September 2026 THE ORDER OF IMMORALITY How World Order Died The postwar World Order joined moral legitimacy, international law, sovereign equality, institutions, and Western economic power. Western traditions of human dignity, legal restraint, rights, and humanitarian protection helped shape its language. But colonial legacies, selective interventions, sanctions, financial coercion, and civilian suffering progressively damaged credibility. As trust weakened, money, technology, chokepoints, and deterrence gained importance. Eastern and Global South states increasingly seek security through strategic autonomy, resilient economies, diversified payments, regional cooperation, and credible defence capabilities.

Global Affairs Session 99 25 September 2026 WORLD WAR AT UN Age of Wars & role of UN UNGA 2026 reveals a world where military conflict, economic coercion, technological rivalry and institutional distrust increasingly overlap. Ukraine, Iran, Gaza, maritime chokepoints, sanctions, AI competition and demands for UN reform now converge in one diplomatic arena. The United Nations remains a meeting place, but consensus is harder as power becomes more multipolar. “World War at UN” captures this friction, not as a literal world war inside the chamber, but as a struggle over security, sovereignty, law, representation, technology and the rules of global order today.

Global Affairs Session 98 23 September 2026 GRAY ZONE WARFARE Europe versus Russia Gray-zone warfare describes coordinated coercion designed to remain below, blur, or complicate the threshold of open war. The methods are old: Cold War powers used espionage, propaganda, covert action, sabotage and proxies while nuclear deterrence discouraged direct superpower conflict. Russia’s 2014 operations in Ukraine revived attention to ambiguity and deniability; its 2022 full-scale invasion crossed into conventional war. Yet cyber operations, electronic warfare, influence campaigns, sabotage, proxies and infrastructure pressure continued. By September 2026, European governments increasingly treat these activities as a persistent security challenge requiring resilience, intelligence and deterrence.

Global Affairs Session 97 22 September 2026 ARTIFICIAL STATES CRUMBLING? From Pan-Arabism of Nasser to GCC of 2026 The six GCC monarchies emerged through different histories, but several modern Gulf sovereignties were consolidated only in the 20th century. British treaty systems shaped Kuwait, Bahrain, Qatar, and the Trucial States (7 sheikdoms), while pan-Arabism supporter Gamal Nasser challenged imperial-era Arab fragmentation. Hereditary rule, migrant-heavy labor markets, hydrocarbon revenues, and external security partnerships remain important. The 2026 Iran war, Hormuz disruption, Houthi Red Sea blockade, island seizures, and attacks on Saudi export infrastructure exposed serious vulnerabilities, while fiscal buffers and adaptation preserved state continuity.

Global Affairs Session 96 21 September 2026 EUROPE WANTS WAR? Why the sudden war-cries against Russia Europe's rhetoric toward Russia has hardened sharply during August-September 2026. Russia intensified missile and drone attacks on Ukraine, while Ukraine expanded deep strikes against Russian refineries and Moscow itself. Poland, France, Germany and Switzerland raised security warnings, although NATO says no direct attack is imminent. Washington still mixes sanctions, negotiations and restraint. The central argument is whether stronger European deterrence lowers the risk of war, or whether accumulating military steps make NATO-Russia escalation easier.