Houthi Red Sea Escalation: Oil Prices, the Mecca Pact, and India’s Vulnerability

Houthi Red Sea escalation oil prices

The conventional premise of maritime deterrence held that overwhelming blue-water naval power could reliably cordon regional conflicts away from global shipping lanes. That calculation unravelled…

RBI Gold Repatriation: The Quiet Move Europe Is Only Now Copying

RBI gold repatriation — gold bars in a central bank vault as India brings reserves home from London and Basel

The Netherlands and France just relocated a combined 215 tonnes of gold out of North America, citing crisis preparedness and purity rules. The RBI quietly…