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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 Gloves Are Off
Russia’s Strategic Shift from Negotiation to Military Victory in Ukrain The trajectory of the war in Ukraine has entered a new phase, defined less by the ebb and flow of frontline manoeuvres than by a fundamental strategic reassessment in Moscow. For months, Russian officials had invoked the “spirit of Anchorage”, a term referencing the August… 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
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Information Space Has Become the Decisive Battleground of 21st-Century Conflict
How the United States Exploits Information Vulnerability to Capture Nations and Why Securing Information Space is the Most Urgent National Security Imperative General News Article | June 2026 The past quarter-century of geopolitical history has been defined by a transformation that has largely escaped the attention of conventional strategic analysis. While military planners, diplomats, and… Continue reading
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The Price Of Industrial Strategy
How China Built a Global Electric Vehicle Industry Through State Capitalism, and How Washington Answered with Tariff Wall Editorial Analysis | June 2026 (This headline image is the Geely Geome Xingyuan is a compact hatchback that sells for under $10,000) I. The Industrial Reset: China’s EV Strategy from 2009 When China formally identified new energy… Continue reading
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The $23,000 car America cannot buy
How fifteen years of Chinese industrial policy produced an electric vehicle Detroit cannot match and why tariffs may be solving the wrong problem General News Article | June 2026 (The headline image is the Geely Geome Xingyuan is a compact hatchback that sells for under $10,000) In 2023 BYD began selling a small electric hatchback… Continue reading
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The Memorandum of Convenience
Why the US-Iran MOU Represents Another Chapter in a Longstanding Pattern of Strategic Deception The June 2026 Memorandum of Understanding between the United States and Iran has been presented to the world as a diplomatic breakthrough. According to the 14-point text, the agreement commits both parties to the immediate and permanent termination of military operations… Continue reading
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