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Faltering American Strategy in the Middle East
Escalation in the Strait: Trump, Iran, and the Anatomy of a Strategic Trap The Strait of Hormuz has long been recognised as one of the world’s most consequential maritime chokepoints. Approximately 20 per cent of globally traded oil passes through its narrow waters, making its security a matter of strategic concern for every major economy.… Continue reading
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The Reckoning of Artificial Intelligence
Debt, Delusion, and the Coming Tech Depression Tags: Artificial Intelligence, Venture Capital, Hyperscalers, Corporate Debt, Semiconductor Industry, US Defence Budget, Technology Policy, Financial Risk For the better part of a decade, the technology industry has presented itself as the engine of modernity and economic growth. Its leading firms were celebrated as paragons of efficiency, generating… Continue reading
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Two Fronts, One Strategic Architecture
How RAND’s Russia strategy and Brookings’ Iran strategy were written into the wars that followed RAND Corporation is not an independent commentator sitting outside the American state. It is a federally funded research and development centre that has operated under standing contract to the US Army, the Air Force, and the Office of the Secretary… Continue reading
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The Proxy War
How EU Financing, NATO Procurement, British Weapons Programmes and the Command of Negotiations Sustain Ukraine’s War Effort On 3 July, President Vladimir Putin appeared in military fatigues at a forward command post in Donbas, a day after Russian forces launched one of the largest combined drone and missile strikes of the war against Kyiv. The… Continue reading
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Decline on the World Stage
Strategic Solvency, Institutional Interventions, and the Structural Attrition of the Transnational System Editorial Analysis |July 2026 The Strategic Insolvency of Asymmetric Conflict The structural stability of a global superpower depends on maintaining strategic solvency, a condition where external military commitments remain balanced by domestic fiscal capacity and industrial endurance. The deployment of significant American military… Continue reading
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America’s Terrorist Pipeline For War with China
Two recent decisions to remove designated terrorist organisations from US lists sit inside a longer pattern of tactical realignment against China and Russia National Public Radio published a lengthy feature on 17 May 2026 profiling Uyghur fighters who helped topple the Assad government in Syria, describing them through interviews conducted in Idlib and Jisr al-Shughur… Continue reading
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America at Two Hundred and Fifty- A Spectacle of Decline and Questions Over Who Actually Rules
Food stamps, opioid deaths and a cage fight on the White House lawn, read against rival theories of American power On 14 June 2026, President Donald Trump marked his eightieth birthday and the run-up to the semiquincentennial of American independence with a mixed martial arts card staged on the South Lawn of the White House,… Continue reading
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Washington’s Widening Front Against Multipolarism
Three theatres – Iran, Ukraine, and now the Philippines – one recurring pattern of escalation dressed as restraint On 21 June 2026, American aircraft struck the Fordow, Natanz and Isfahan nuclear sites in Iran, an operation Donald Trump ordered after months of on-again, off-again negotiation. A ceasefire followed on 24 June, and on 17 June… Continue reading
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The Price Shock – How Chinese Open-Weight AI Is Dismantling Silicon Valley’s Business Model
How DeepSeek and Zhipu AI exposed the assumptions on which $1.8 trillion in Western AI valuations rest Editorial Analysis | July 2026 I. The Regulatory Hearing as Commercial Theatre Sam Altman appeared before the Senate Judiciary Subcommittee on Privacy, Technology, and the Law on 16 May 2023, delivering testimony that a senior Democratic senator described… Continue reading
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The United States Exploits Information Vulnerability to Topple Nations
How the systematic weaponisation of media, civil society, and algorithmic infrastructure has supplanted conventional military force as the decisive instrument of geopolitical competition Editorial Analysis | June 2026 I. The Redefinition of Sovereignty in the Information Age Sovereignty, in the framework inherited from the 1648 Peace of Westphalia, rested on territorial integrity, military capacity, and… Continue reading
