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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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AI Has Lost Public Trust
Why Growing Scepticism Towards Artificial Intelligence Reflects Political Economy Rather Than Fear of Technology Artificial intelligence has rapidly assumed a position once occupied by electrification, railways, telecommunications and the internet as the defining technology of its generation. Governments describe artificial intelligence as essential national infrastructure. Financial markets increasingly value companies according to their AI strategies… Continue reading
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The Colour Revolution Playbook
How the US Captures Nations Without Firing a Shot to Disrupt Multipolarism, Extend Russia, Contain Iran and China The February 1992 draft of the Defense Planning Guidance, leaked to the New York Times and published on March 8, 1992, articulated a strategic vision that has shaped American foreign policy for three decades. The document, prepared… Continue reading
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China Defends Export Controls as Japan Criticizes Rare Earth Restrictions
Beijing argues its measures are a restrained response to Japan’s growing military role and its position on Taiwan, while Tokyo says the restrictions are harming its economy. China has banned the export of all dual-use items to Japanese military users and for Japan’s military use. According to China’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs, the goal is… Continue reading
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America’s Global War
An Opinion Analysis of US-Israel-Ukraine Relations, the Integration of Military-Intelligence Infrastructure, and the Pursuit of Global Primacy The United States Congress has moved with remarkable determination to permanently codify the US-Israel relationship through legislative mechanisms that transcend traditional alliance frameworks. Section 224 of the House version of the 2027 National Defense Authorization Act, titled the… Continue reading
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Putin’s Limited War in Ukraine Has Prolonged the Conflict
Military pressure has intensified, yet the Kremlin still avoids full mobilisation and total war methods, leaving Russia trapped between battlefield advantage and political caution Vladimir Putin has chosen to fight in Ukraine without fully fighting a war in the classical sense. Russian operations have been large, destructive, and sustained, yet they have remained constrained by… Continue reading
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The Trap of Reconstruction: How the US-Iran Deal Subordinates Tehran to Gulf Capital
From Proxy Networks to Capital Dependency in the Post-War Middle East The signing of the Islamabad Memorandum of Understanding between the United States and the Islamic Republic of Iran on June 17, 2026, marks a decisive inflection point in the geopolitical trajectory of the Middle East, yet its true significance lies less in the cessation… Continue reading
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