#geopolitical-realignment

#geopolitical-realignment

Gunfire and loud blasts have been heard at the main airport in the Nigerien capital of Niamey, according to the Reuters news agency and an independent source. A witness told Reuters they heard explosions just after midnight. The airport is next to Base Aerienne 101, a military base previously used by American and then Russian troops. A source with the Togolese airline Asky told the Guardian that gunshots made several holes in the fuselage of its two planes on the tarmac of Niamey airport.

"It's in that spirit that we can still talk about a fracturing, more dangerous, world, in which the U.S. is less vaunted, the USD loses its reserve currency status, and where the U.S. focuses instead on the Western Hemisphere as its sole and defendable redoubt," the pair explained.

2025 was the year of tariffs and a global shift in economic power. Two words that largely define the economy right now: Global reordering. President Donald Trump's Tariffs have landed as a shock to global trade. This is 2025. Major economies are rewriting their playbooks, and alliances are being redrawn. From Africa's minerals boom to the global AI race, countries