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The Zambakari Advisory LLC’s vision is to provide leading consulting and advisory services to individuals, businesses, and organizations nationally and regionally in Africa and in the Middle East. The firm provides strategic analysis, technical capacity support with transitional processes, forecasting, political and economic analysis that minimizes risk and exposure to volatile events nationally,

regionally, and internationally. The firm uses nationally recognized analyst based in each region to conduct analysis and provide advisory services that allows clients to anticipate future events, maximize opportunities, and minimize risks. Founded in 2015 by Dr. Christopher Zambakari, the firm seeks to leverage local talents and complement it with international topical experts from around the world to deliver customized and tailored services that maximizes existing knowledge and resources to deliver new approaches to conducting business in Africa and in the Middle East.

The Pentagon has raised its counterintelligence threat level against Israel for eavesdropping on U.S.-Iran talks — a tel...
06/08/2026

The Pentagon has raised its counterintelligence threat level against Israel for eavesdropping on U.S.-Iran talks — a telling sign of how fractured this alliance has become. https://tinyurl.com/mryvf7pw

Context always matters. From the Soviet Union, to post-Cold War Iraq, to Iran today — America's overriding objective has never changed: prevent any single state from dominating the world's most energy-rich region.

Iran, having survived both Israeli and U.S. military campaigns, is now pursuing three goals: control over energy flows, nuclear threshold status, and military predominance in the Gulf.

The U.S. wants to disrupt that emerging order. Israel wants something else entirely.

With this many competing agendas, it is very hard to see who blinks first.

📚 For deeper analysis, read my full Iran Series — https://tinyurl.com/3eafxr29

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The counterintelligence threat level was raised by the Defense Intelligence Agency in recent weeks after growing concerns that Israeli espionage had become more aggressive than usual, sources say.

Mini Series: "Venezuela at a Crossroads" — Competing Legal RegimesThis is Part 2 of a three-part series centered on the ...
06/08/2026

Mini Series: "Venezuela at a Crossroads" — Competing Legal Regimes

This is Part 2 of a three-part series centered on the U.S. intervention in Venezuela on January 3 that resulted in the capture of President Nicolas Maduro. The Trump administration framed Operation Absolute Resolve as transnational law enforcement rather than regime change — and why that distinction matters enormously.

From the resurrection of the Monroe Doctrine to the legal exposure created by declaring intent to "run" Venezuela, the strategic calculations are as revealing as the legal ones.

China, Russia, and the rest of the world are watching — and recalibrating.

🔗 Read Part 2: https://tinyurl.com/mrkcwcnr

Part 3 drops soon — can the U.S. actually rebuild Venezuela?

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Competing Legal Regimes

Garrett's 2015 analysis of the WHO's mishandled Ebola response remains painfully relevant. Global health infrastructure ...
06/08/2026

Garrett's 2015 analysis of the WHO's mishandled Ebola response remains painfully relevant. Global health infrastructure was found to be fragmented, underfunded, and reactive — with wealthy nations showing indifference until outbreaks threatened their own borders, then overreacting hysterically. The warning was clear: the world gets the pandemic preparedness it pays for.

First, indifference is a luxury no one can afford. In an interconnected world, an outbreak in a remote village becomes a global emergency the moment it reaches a major airport. Containment is exponentially cheaper than crisis response. The "not my problem" mindset is not just morally hollow — it is strategically reckless.

Second, Western investment in other regions' health systems is genuinely beneficial, but it cannot substitute for what can be termed "health sovereignty" — the commitment of every nation to fund, build, and sustain its own first line of defense. External donors should complement, not replace, domestic responsibility.

Third, health sovereignty is inseparable from governance. An uncomfortable conversation, but a necessary one: true sovereignty means prioritizing the welfare the people, mobilizing domestic resources, and refusing to let political distraction erode public health infrastructure. A government that cannot protect its citizens from preventable disease has abdicated one of its most fundamental obligations.

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Why I’m Launching What in the World?

After U.S. strikes on an Iranian-linked tanker, Tehran responded with a sweeping coordinated counterstrike — hitting Kuw...
06/08/2026

After U.S. strikes on an Iranian-linked tanker, Tehran responded with a sweeping coordinated counterstrike — hitting Kuwait International Airport, Ali Al-Salem Air Base, the 5th Fleet in Bahrain, Jordan, northern Iraq, the UAE, and Al-Udeid Air Base in Qatar.

Israel then struck Lebanon. Iran launched ballistic missiles toward Israel. Meanwhile, the Pentagon raised its counterintelligence threat level against Israel for spying on U.S.-Iran talks — a fracture hiding in plain sight.

Trump reportedly told Netanyahu to stand down, then warned he'll have "no choice" according to FT but to accept a deal.
Talks and strikes. Simultaneously. Absent a deal, energy markets and regional security hang in the balance. https://tinyurl.com/469vaaee

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Trump earlier urged Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu not to retaliate, according to a US official. Follow live updates.

While the world watches the Iran negotiations, Russia has just escalated dramatically. Russian Foreign Minister Lavrov h...
06/08/2026

While the world watches the Iran negotiations, Russia has just escalated dramatically.

Russian Foreign Minister Lavrov has urged the U.S. to evacuate its Kyiv embassy — a stark diplomatic warning that typically precedes a major strike.

This comes on the heels of one of the war's largest attacks on Kyiv, combining mass drone barrages with the Oreshnik — Russia's intermediate-range ballistic missile capable of carrying nuclear warheads.

Washington is simultaneously managing a fragile Iran ceasefire and a European war that shows no signs of ending. What this moment makes undeniable is that Europe needs an entirely new pan-European security architecture — one built on European sovereignty, independent deterrence, and diplomatic engagement.

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By Dr. Christopher Zambakari Blame it not on forever friends or frenemies. Blame it, instead, on perpetual interests. We think we know what has happened in Ukraine. We have been told by the nation’s press that the military operation is simply a matter of Russian aggression; in other words, bus

The Pentagon has raised its counterintelligence threat level against Israel for eavesdropping on U.S.-Iran talks — a tel...
06/08/2026

The Pentagon has raised its counterintelligence threat level against Israel for eavesdropping on U.S.-Iran talks — a telling sign of how fractured this alliance has become. https://tinyurl.com/mryvf7pw

Context always matters. From the Soviet Union, to post-Cold War Iraq, to Iran today — America's overriding objective has never changed: prevent any single state from dominating the world's most energy-rich region.

Iran, having survived both Israeli and U.S. military campaigns, is now pursuing three goals: control over energy flows, nuclear threshold status, and military predominance in the Gulf.

The U.S. wants to disrupt that emerging order. Israel wants something else entirely.

With this many competing agendas, it is very hard to see who blinks first.

📚 For deeper analysis, read my full Iran Series — https://tinyurl.com/3eafxr29

🔗 Subscribe to our Substack here: https://tinyurl.com/4m967vwz


https://tinyurl.com/mryvf7pw

The Defense Department has increased the counterintelligence threat assessment to its highest level, and Israel is believed to have eavesdropped on American negotiations with Iran.

Ukraine's mid-range drones — striking nearly 100 miles behind Russian lines — have fundamentally rewritten battlefield c...
06/08/2026

Ukraine's mid-range drones — striking nearly 100 miles behind Russian lines — have fundamentally rewritten battlefield calculus. Combined with Western support, they've forced a genuine cease-fire conversation. https://tinyurl.com/mrxm2p5d

But here's the broader context: Russia is fighting at roughly 20% capacity, spending only 5-6% of GDP on the war, still legally calling it a "special operation."

Ukraine is winning tactical battles against a constrained adversary. The real question analysts aren't asking loudly enough — what does the battlefield look like if Putin stops fighting with one hand tied behind his back?

🔗 Subscribe to our Substack here: https://tinyurl.com/4m967vwz and for additional historical context, refer to my analyses published by the Georgetown Public Policy Review https://tinyurl.com/mrzkrc6d, SSRN https://tinyurl.com/mpt3hwuv, and the Fletcher School's World Forum https://tinyurl.com/ry7whf7p


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Why a cease-fire is now a real possibility.

Professor Robert Pape makes a point I have been arguing for weeks — the economic and emerging strategic reality in Iran ...
06/08/2026

Professor Robert Pape makes a point I have been arguing for weeks — the economic and emerging strategic reality in Iran dwarfs the military one. The nuclear issue matters to Iran, but far less than the frozen $100 billion in assets, access to oil markets, and control of energy leverage https://tinyurl.com/w5bu9evu.

As the WSJ confirms, Iran wants economic relief, market access and potentially expel US forces from the Gulf. Tehran has cast a wider net — influencing energy markets across Asia, Europe, and the United States simultaneously.

As I said few years ago in our Special Issue, viewed from Washington, disrupting Gulf energy flows is equally a strategy to deny Beijing cheap oil and stall China's rise in a rapidly emerging multipolar order. What converges in Iran today is simultaneously an immediate crisis, a medium-term realignment, and a long-term strategic contest for the architecture of global power.

📚 For deeper analysis, read my full Iran Series — https://tinyurl.com/3eafxr29

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Everyone is focused on enrichment levels, inspections, and whether Hormuz technically reopens.

What makes this report particularly troubling is not only what it says — but what it reveals about the Democratic Party'...
06/07/2026

What makes this report particularly troubling is not only what it says — but what it reveals about the Democratic Party's capacity for honest self-reflection ahead of the 2026 midterms.

The fact that DNC Chairman Ken Martin initially disparaged his own party's autopsy as incomplete and inaccurate, only to release it under pressure, is itself a diagnostic failure of the first order. A party that cannot agree on what went wrong cannot agree on how to move forward.

This is not a party conducting a serious post-mortem. When the diagnosis is incomplete and dishonest, the prescription will be equally so. The problem of the problem remains the main problem.


An incomplete examination of what went wrong for the Biden and Harris campaigns in 2024 was released after it had become an embarrassment for the Democratic National Committee.

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