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Silver Crash: The Largest Act of Market Manipulation on Record
You can suppress futures prices, but you cannot suppress physical scarcity and markets will eventually reflect that reality. The collapse in gold and silver prices observed yesterday reflected a deliberate intervention rather than a market driven repricing event, given the scale, timing, sequencing, and institutional mechanisms involved. Gold declined by more than twelve per cent… Continue reading
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China’s Military Shake-Up
Understanding Xi Jinping’s balancing of loyalty, competence, and institutional stability in China’s armed forces, within the context of governance and national development The investigation and removal of General Zhang Youxia, one of the most senior officers in the People’s Liberation Army and vice-chairman of China’s Central Military Commission (CMC), marks an event of deep significance… Continue reading
anti-corruption campaign, Central Military Commission, centralisation, China, Chinese governance, Chinese political system, competence, corruption, cross-strait relations, economic development, international relations, leadership consolidation, loyalty, military purge, military readiness, People’s Liberation Army, PLA, poverty alleviation, regional security, strategic planning, taiwan, Xi Jinping, Zhang Youxia -
On the Verge of Iran War
The region braces for war as U.S.-Israel-Iran conflict could start at any moment, affecting both regional security and global markets. The confrontation involving Iran, the United States, and Israel has reached a stage where military forces are positioned for rapid action, diplomatic efforts are secondary to military readiness, and the risk of escalation depends largely… Continue reading
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The Persistence of an Unwinnable War
U.S.–Israeli Strategy Has Strengthened the Adversary It Sought to Break and Why Another War Is Likely to Reproduce Past Failures The current phase of confrontation unfolds amid an unprecedented concentration of military and naval forces across the Middle East, creating conditions widely recognised by defence analysts as consistent with imminent large scale conflict. Naval strike… Continue reading
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The Cost of Iran’s Repeated Failures in Security and Economy
Understanding the Consequences of Ignoring Institutional Lessons and How Strategic Blind Spots Undermine National Stability Iran’s recent crisis reflects a repeated failure to learn established lessons about survival under sustained external pressure. These lessons concern preparation for regime change operations, economic stabilisation as a security function, internal security consolidation, and deterrence credibility against external coercion.… Continue reading
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Collapse of Western Power and the Global System in 2026
Monetary Weaponisation, Financial Fragmentation and Strategic Overreach during the Western Collapse Phase Western power in 2026 reflects the accumulated outcome of choices made since the end of the Cold War.The system did not drift accidentally into its present condition. Policy decisions consistently favoured financial expansion, global leverage, and institutional growth over domestic production and social… Continue reading
AI and Digital Control, America, China, economics, Energy, EUROPE, Foreign Policy, Geopolitics, Global Finance, israel, NATO, politicsArctic geopolitics, China Strategy, de-dollarisation, Elite Overproduction, Empire Decline, energy geopolitics, Financialisation, Game Theory, Geopolitics, Greenland Resources, Iran Sanctions, Kinetic Conflict Risk, multipolarity, Naval Escalation, Oil Tanker Seizures, political economy, sanctions warfare, Shadow Fleets, US foreign policy, Venezuela Oil, World War 3 -
Japan’s Remilitarisation Dream Meets Reality
Why industrial dependence and surrender-era agreements undermine Tokyo’s push toward confrontation The dispute between Japan and China became clearer once official statements confirmed the issue involved military supply restrictions rather than general trade policy. Japan’s prime minister, Sanae Takaichi, publicly committed her government to accelerated remilitarisation and explicit preparation for potential conflict with China. That… Continue reading
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The Limits of Regime Change in a Hardened State
Manufactured internal dissent, external pressure, and the endurance of a layered Iranian political order The demand for regime change in Iran has become a litmus test for political coherence in the present international order. Advocacy for the overthrow of the Iranian state, when detached from the material balance of power that governs outcomes, functions as… Continue reading
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Domestic Turmoil and Foreign Brinkmanship Push the U.S. Toward a Critical Crossroads
As nationwide protests challenge federal authority, rising pressure on Iran and looming military options raise fears of dangerous miscalculation at home and abroad. The crisis now unfolding is no longer confined to a single country or a single issue. It is developing simultaneously inside the United States and across the Middle East, with each front… Continue reading
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Iran Accuses U.S. and Israel of Stoking Unrest by Supporting Foreign Terrorists
As deadly protests continue over economic woes, Iranian officials blame external forces for fueling violence, while President Trump signals potential intervention. Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian has accused the U.S. and Israel of actively stoking unrest within the country by supporting “foreign terrorists” embedded among protesters. In a televised interview, Pezeshkian claimed that the violent unrest,… Continue reading
