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Vera Bergengruen

ARTICLES BY VERA BERGENGRUEN

'Hit Them 20 To 1': Trump Rattled By Iran's Payback, Levies Own 'Interest' As US Continues Strikes?

Inside Trump’s Oval Office decision to ditch the Iran ceasefire

4 min read . 09 Jul 2026

Venezuelan opposition leader Maria Corina Machado (REUTERS)

How Machado’s return to Venezuela got derailed after US resistance

6 min read . 03 Jul 2026

Why Is Trump Hiding Iran Deal MoU? Vance Reveals | 'Pakistanis, Qataris Involved'

The race to land an Iran deal loomed large behind Trump’s UFC birthday

7 min read . 16 Jun 2026

Iran’s Nuclear Bombshell Stuns Trump | Tehran May Transfer Enriched Uranium to...

Trump says he will hold off on Iran attack as serious negotiations are under way

1 min read . 19 May 2026

Raúl Rodriguez Castro

Cuba tried to deliver secret letter directly to Trump via businessman

3 min read . 17 Apr 2026

Iran’s decision to close the Strait of Hormuz to most commercial trade roiled global energy markets.

Trump aims to force a quick Iran deal with a slow squeeze

5 min read . 16 Apr 2026

A vessel at the Strait of Hormuz, off the coast of Oman, on Sunday.

US threat to blockade Hormuz sets up risky new showdown

7 min read . 13 Apr 2026

After an F-15E was shot down in Iran, a U.S. airman evaded capture for two days before being rescued by special operations forces.

A downed airman, a mountain hideout and a high-risk rescue in Iran

7 min read . 06 Apr 2026

Cuba’s power grid has sustained two nationwide collapses on top of the daily blackouts.

A Russian tanker tests the limits of Trump’s Cuba squeeze

6 min read . 31 Mar 2026

President Trump arriving in West Palm Beach, Florida on Feb. 27, hours before the attack on Iran.

Trump knew the risk of Iran blocking the Strait of Hormuz. He still went to war.

9 min read . 14 Mar 2026

Trump’s most dramatic foreign intervention yet also comes as polls show that voters are souring on his focus on foreign policy months before the 2026 midterm elections.

Trump spent years denouncing US intervention. Now he’s toppling foreign leaders

10 min read . 02 Mar 2026

Dario Amodei, co-founder and chief executive officer of Anthropic, has said the company doesn’t have political motivations. (File Photo: Bloomberg)

‘Woke’ AI spat escalates between Pentagon and Anthropic

5 min read . 18 Feb 2026

Fuel supplies are dwindling in Havana and across the country.

Life in Cuba is grinding to a halt under US oil blockade

4 min read . 11 Feb 2026

Cuba’s President Miguel Diaz-Canel.

Cuba says it is ready to engage with Trump as fuel shortages worsen

2 min read . 06 Feb 2026

The analysis by the Central Intelligence Agency was briefed to President Trump. (Reuters)

CIA concluded regime loyalists were best placed to lead Venezuela after Maduro

5 min read . 06 Jan 2026

Call it the return of the “Big Stick” school of hemispheric relations, a throwback to U.S. President Theodore Roosevelt.

Speak loudly and carry a big stick—Trump’s approach to the Americas

7 min read . 06 Jan 2026

US President Donald Trump at a news conference on Saturday, Jan. 3, 2026. President Nicolas Maduro has been charged in the US after he was captured and flown out of Venezuela. (Photo: Bloomberg)

Trump rolls the dice on nation-building with vow to ‘run’ Venezuela

5 min read . 04 Jan 2026

Venezuelans living in Chile gather to celebrate, after the US struck Venezuela and captured its President Nicolas Maduro and his wife Cilia Flores overnight, in Concepcion, Chile, January 3, 2026.(Photo: Reuters)

Inside Operation Absolute Resolve, the incursion that deposed Venezuela’s Maduro

6 min read . 04 Jan 2026

Nobel Peace Prize laureate and Venezuelan opposition leader María Corina Machado. (File Photo; Pool via AP)

Rescued at sea: How Venezuela’s Machado survived the riskiest leg of her escape

8 min read . 12 Dec 2025

Hegseth felt Holsey didn’t move quickly enough to develop the plans, the people said. (AP)

Hegseth asked top admiral to resign after months of discord

5 min read . 04 Dec 2025