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The Energy Wars and the Coming Crisis of Western Capitalism
How the struggle for control over global oil resources is driving imperial conflict and threatening systemic financial collapse Editorial Analysis | September 2026 The wars in the Middle East and Ukraine are not conflicts between nations over territory or ideology but battles in a broader struggle for control over the global energy system and the… Continue reading
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The Anxiety of a Hegemon – Why America Cannot Stop Saying It Is Still Ahead
The ritualistic declarations of continued primacy reveal a deeper structural crisis that no amount of reassurance can conceal Editorial Analysis | September 2026 The most revealing aspect of contemporary American discourse about China is not the substance of the claims but the frequency and ritualistic character of their repetition. For decades, the United States was… Continue reading
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The Real Global Conflict: Free Trade vs. National Development
Why the fight between finance capital and industrial capital matters more than the clash between democracy and authoritarianism Editorial Analysis | September 2026 The framework that locates contemporary geopolitical conflict within a struggle between two opposed systems of economic governance has considerable explanatory power that conventional left-right analysis lacks. The British system of free trade,… Continue reading
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The Kingdom That Cannot Sell Its Oil: How Yemen and Iran Have Trapped Saudi Arabia
Riyadh’s export lifelines are severed, its allies are wavering, and its American patron has no spare capacity to save it Editorial Analysis | September 2026 The suspension of all crude oil loadings from the Red Sea port of Yanbu represents the most severe disruption to Saudi Arabia’s oil export capacity since the kingdom began exporting… Continue reading
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The Empire That Would Rather Burn Itself Than Share the World
An independent analysis of the 1992 Wolfowitz Doctrine, the RAND multi-domain strategy, and the structural reasons why a declining hegemon may attempt to topple the game board rather than accept a multipolar world Editorial Analysis | September 2026 The 1992 Defense Planning Guidance, drafted under the supervision of Paul Wolfowitz and leaked to the New… Continue reading
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Extracting the Last Reserves: Ukraine’s Manpower Crisis and the Question of Female Conscription
Manpower Crisis, Societal Militarisation and the Class Logic of Prolonged War in Ukraine General Article | September 2026 The debate over compulsory service for Ukrainian women has moved from the margins of policy discussion into sustained public circulation precisely because the existing male mobilisation system has reached visible limits. Former Defence Minister Oleksii Reznikov has… Continue reading
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Ukraine’s Losing War and the West’s Strategic Dead End
How military exhaustion, fiscal collapse, and internal political disintegration have transformed the conflict into a question of settlement terms rather than battlefield victory Editorial Analysis | September 2026 Ukraine is losing this war, and the trajectory of defeat, while gradual, appears increasingly inexorable. This is not a judgment upon the Ukrainian soldiers nor upon the… Continue reading
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The Arsenal of Empire – How Private Profit and Strategic Overreach Are Breaking the American Military
From the failure of Silicon Valley’s defence startups on Ukrainian battlefields to the logistical collapse of the United States Navy in the Persian Gulf, the gap between American military spending and American military capability has become a chasm that no amount of additional funding can bridge Editorial Analysis | September 2026 The performance of the… Continue reading
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China Gives Its Inland Factories a Direct Route to Southeast Asia
New Trade Route Linking China’s Inland Factories to Southeast Asia Later this month, cargo ships are expected to begin using a new and shorter route from China’s industrial southwest to the sea. The 134-kilometre Pinglu Canal connects Nanning and the inland river network of Guangxi to the Gulf of Tonkin. The canal has been built… Continue reading
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China’s Objections at the United States-Hosted G20 Finance Meeting and the Limits of Manufactured Multilateral Consensus
An examination of the institutional, strategic and economic drivers behind Beijing’s refusal to endorse language on trade imbalances, non-market policies and critical supply chains in the chair’s statement issued after the Asheville gathering Editorial Analysis | September 2026 In the closing days of the United States G20 presidency’s finance track, finance ministers and central bank… Continue reading
