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The Choke Point Doctrine
How American economic and military pressure now targets the Strait of Hormuz, the Strait of Malacca, the Panama Canal, the Suez Canal, the Strait of Gibraltar, and the Arctic passages The headline video below is circulating on social media under the title “It’s Not Chaos. It’s The Blueprint” argues that the seemingly disconnected crises in… Continue reading
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Kagan and Boot: The Guilty Are Writing the Verdict
From Tehran to Taiwan: The Men Who Built America’s Empire Are Now Writing Its Autopsy The extraordinary significance of the Max Boot interview with former CIA analyst John Culver does not rest merely in the military assessments themselves, severe as they already appear. The deeper significance rests in who is speaking, where they are speaking,… Continue reading
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The Unipolar Machine: Structure of Unipolar Warfare
A Geopolitical Analysis of the United States Senate Hearing on Indo-Pacific Command, April 2026 – (Part One) For most people who follow international affairs, the daily news cycle provides a sense of orientation. Headlines announce wars, peace talks, diplomatic summits, and military mobilisations. Politicians stand behind lecterns and speak of freedom, democracy, and the defence… Continue reading
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The Unipolar Machine: Evidence and the Future
A Geopolitical Analysis of the United States Senate Hearing on Indo-Pacific Command, April 2026 – (Part Two) The fifth and most disturbing pattern in the testimony was the explicit preparation for a future war with China. Admiral Paparo described the Indo-Pacific Command as an AI-powered headquarters racing to achieve decision superiority over Beijing. General Brunson… Continue reading
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Kagan Admits Iran Won
The co-founder of the Project for the New American Century writes the Empire’s Obituary – How the United States Lost a War it Started and Cannot Escape the Consequences When Robert Kagan writes that the United States has suffered a total defeat from which it cannot recover, the machinery of American imperialism has not merely… Continue reading
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The Unipolar Machine: A Geopolitical Analysis of the United States Senate Hearing on Indo-Pacific Command, April 2026
How a United States Senate hearing revealed the machinery of permanent war, energy blackmail, the consumption of proxies and the making of a new Asian front For most people who follow international affairs, the daily news cycle provides a sense of orientation. Headlines announce wars, peace talks, diplomatic summits, and military mobilisations. Politicians stand behind… Continue reading
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One Battle, Two Press Releases: Hormuz and the Crisis of American Deterrence
The Persian Gulf confrontation exposed the widening gap between military optics and operational control, while financial stabilisation and military escalation merged into the same strategic system A naval withdrawal inside the Strait of Hormuz would mark a strategic rupture extending far beyond one contested waterway, because the credibility of American maritime supremacy depends upon sustained… Continue reading
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US launches new strikes on Iran as Tehran claims retaliation against American naval forces
Fresh fighting near the Strait of Hormuz raises fears of renewed escalation despite the April 7 ceasefire The US military has reportedly carried out a new wave of strikes on Iranian targets near the Strait of Hormuz, with Tehran claiming it responded by targeting US naval vessels in the region. According to US and Iranian… Continue reading
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The New Geography of Power: Europe Pays, America Pivots (Extended Version)
How Washington weaponised energy chokepoints, controlled instability, and alliance dependency against China, Iran, and Europe. The post-Cold War order is ending not because American power suddenly collapsed beneath external pressure, but because Washington abandoned the economic logic that previously sustained its own imperial system across multiple continents simultaneously. The United States no longer governs primarily… Continue reading
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How Russia Wins the New World War
Sharpening nuclear deterrence and revising doctrine as necessary conditions to defeat Kiev and constrain the West The post-Cold War order has failed, and Russia’s survival now depends on forcing a strategic reversal of Western escalation through nuclear-backed coercive deterrence rather than conventional victory. The collapse of the Soviet Union removed geopolitical constraints without eliminating nuclear… Continue reading
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