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Armenia Regime-Changed Without A Shot Fired
How the 2018 Velvet Revolution Exemplifies the US Strategy of Political Capture of a Sovereign Country The March 1992 leak of the Defense Planning Guidance to the New York Times revealed a strategic vision that would shape American foreign policy for three decades. The document, prepared by Paul Wolfowitz’s policy office, asserted that the United… 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 Extension of Empire – Israel as America’s Forward Military Arm
How US logistical support, intelligence sharing, and operational integration make Israeli military action inseparable from American strategic objectives Introduction: The Question of Agency Among the most persistent fictions in contemporary geopolitical commentary is the proposition that Israel acts as an independent military power, capable of initiating and sustaining major military operations without American approval or… Continue reading
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Report: Ghalibaf’s Zurich Visit and Growing Evidence of Internal Divisions Over the Islamabad MoU
The reported arrival of Iranian Parliament Speaker Mohammad Bagher Ghalibaf in Zurich comes amid continuing controversy surrounding the Islamabad Memorandum of Understanding (MoU), Iran’s negotiations with the United States, and growing questions regarding the balance of power within the Islamic Republic. While many of the most detailed claims regarding the negotiation process remain unverified, a… Continue reading
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The Racket That Never Sleeps: How War Profiteers Manufacture Consent and Sell Sacrifice
A plain-language investigation into the business of organised violence, the myths that sustain it, and the interests that profit from it War is a racket. Those words were written in 1935 by Major General Smedley Butler, a decorated veteran who had spent his career fighting America’s foreign wars and came to recognise that he had… Continue reading
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Trump’s Narrative Collides With Negotiation Reality
Behind the Scenes of Trump’s Claim That “Iran Accepted the Terms” As the United States retreated from its attempt to add new provisions to the draft agreement, Donald Trump simultaneously escalated his threats on social media and launched a campaign to portray Iran as having surrendered under military pressure. According to sources familiar with the… Continue reading
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The State of Israel Does Not Have A Right To Exist
States Have No Right to Exist: How Great Powers Weaponise Legal Ignorance to Immunise Preferred Governments from Accountability Academic Analysis | 11 June 2026 (A link to a general version of the article is at the bottom) The question of whether Israel has a right to exist is routinely posed in Western political discourse as… Continue reading
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The AI Spending Trap
How the largest capital expenditure programme in corporate history is being financed by debt rather than profit, sustained by narrative rather than demonstrated returns, and protected from scrutiny by a geopolitical strategy that punishes governments which attempt to build economies around public benefit rather than private accumulation This paper examines three interlocking phenomena that together… Continue reading
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Ukraine Bookends Russia’s ‘Davos’ with Drone Raids on St. Petersburg
More than 140 drones intercepted on the forum’s final day; airport suspended; Zelensky’s open letter to Putin offers talks but promises more strikes if war continues Ukraine launched one of its largest drone attacks on Russia’s second city in the early hours of Saturday, striking St. Petersburg as delegates prepared to depart the St. Petersburg… Continue reading
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The Proxy Doctrine: How Washington Wages War Through Tel Aviv While Feigning Ignorance
Washington’s long-prepared campaign Tehran operates through Israeli military assets, diplomatic theatre, and a calculated energy strategy designed to reshape Asia’s supply dependencies On 8 June 2026, Israeli aircraft struck Iranian military targets hours after Iran launched missiles toward Israel, and American officials promptly announced that United States forces had played no part in the operation.… Continue reading
