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Brussels Superheroes Assemble for Rearmament
From comic-book metaphors to budgetary trade-offs: Security doctrine, fiscal sacrifice, industrial decline and geopolitical ambition in a European Union preparing for prolonged rivalry with Russia At the recent Munich Security Conference, the European Union’s High Representative Kaja Kallas framed the present strategic moment in language drawn from American popular culture. Addressing delegates, she declared “Europeans,… Continue reading
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Marco Declares Colonialist War on the Global South
Marco Rubio’s Munich Declaration of Colonial Revivalism amid the Crisis of Western Primacy and the Rise of the Global South Marco Rubio used the Munich Security Conference to present a civilisational argument grounded in imperial expansion and Western dominance. He declared that “for five centuries, before the end of the Second World War, the West… Continue reading
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The Greatest Robbery in Financial History Continues to Play Out in the Silver Market
An analysis of events surrounding the silver market dislocation of Friday 13 February, and the systemic mechanics that enabled it It’s Saturday morning, February 14, 2026, with global markets closed, the week’s turbulence in silver has come to a temporary halt. Over the preceding five trading days, February 9 through February 13, the market had… Continue reading
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Saudi Arabia Has The “BOMB”
Nuclear Patronage, Saudi-Pakistan Security Ties, and the US-Israel Escalatory Dynamics Surrounding Iran Former senior Iranian military officials and independent analysts have publicly asserted for the first time that Saudi Arabia may already be in possession of a hidden nuclear arsenal, and that Riyadh’s extended deterrence is effectively being provided by Pakistan through a strategic mutual… Continue reading
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Leaked documents, diplomatic activism, and conflict-zone reporting challenge the narrative of UAE’s supposed neutral modernity. (In this featured 2012 private jet photo, Azizah Al-Ahmadi (blue), identified as sending a piece of the Kaaba’s Kiswah to Epstein, appears alongside Emirati diplomat Hind Al-Owais (red), referenced in DOJ-released emails. The Kiswah was later photographed laid out on… Continue reading
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EU’s Kallas Floats Conditions for Russia in Prospective Ukraine Settlement EU foreign policy chief signals bloc will seek military limits on Moscow despite lacking seat at negotiating table The European Union intends to propose restrictions on the size of the Russian armed forces as part of any eventual settlement of the Ukraine conflict, EU foreign… Continue reading
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Lavrov Slams Epstein-Russia Claims as “Yellow Journalism”
Moscow rejects spy allegations as a political distraction, while the Global South reacts with shock at Western inaction and elite impunity Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov has denounced the claims circulating in Western media that financier and convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein might have had ties to Russian intelligence, describing the allegations as little more… Continue reading
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Red Lines and Hard Choices of the US-Iran Standoff
Why the US-Iran Impasse Matters to Global Order The standoff between the United States and Iran marks a clear deadlock over sovereignty, military deterrence, and regional power. Recent indirect negotiations in Muscat between U.S. envoys and Iranian officials produced little progress, showing that the parties’ red lines remain firmly inplacer. Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi… Continue reading
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Trump’s Tariffs Backfired and Weakened Economic Power
The Burdem of United States Trade Policy Failure Fell on American Consumers, Firms, Allies, and Markets The reintroduction and expansion of United States tariffs under the Trump administration formed the centrepiece of a strategy publicly presented as economic nationalism, strategic leverage, and industrial revival. The policy failed on each stated objective while imposing measurable domestic… Continue reading
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The Old Lesson Repeated
Macron’s vision for “training” African leaders revives an old colonial logic, the enduring grammar of imperial rule President Macron’s recent remarks, in which he suggested that Europe should identify promising African minds, educate them, and return them to Africa to assist in governance, cannot be treated as an innocent or merely careless choice of words.… Continue reading
