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The Language of Losers: European Protectionism and the Limits of Western Trade Orthodoxy
When a Chinese foreign ministry spokesman stood at a lectern in Beijing on 11 June 2026 and addressed a Bloomberg News correspondent’s question about European supply-chain legislation, he said little that the Foreign Ministry had not said before. The EU’s proposed directive compelling companies to reduce over-dependency on single suppliers was, the spokesman observed, simply… 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 War That Remade Iran: Strategic Gains from the 2026 Conflict
How a Battered Islamic Republic Emerged with New Power, New Leadership, and a Changed Middle East The central premise of the February 2026 American and Israeli military campaign against Iran was straightforward: sustained aerial bombardment combined with targeted killings of the Islamic Republic’s senior leadership would either fracture the state or produce conditions amenable to… 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
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Russia’s Shifting Conduct of the War in Ukraine
How Russia moved from holding back to deploying its most advanced missiles against Ukraine, what NATO’s solidarity visit to Kyiv actually delivered, and why neither side is close to stopping For more than four years, Vladimir Putin prosecuted his military campaign in Ukraine with a deliberate restraint that frustrated Russian hawks, confused Western analysts, and… Continue reading
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The Next Ukraine: Armenia’s Geopolitical Reckoning
The Eurasian Corridor, the EU’s Eastern Expansion, and the Strategic Cost of Small-State Realignment Armenia occupies a peculiar and precarious position in the geography of great-power competition. A landlocked country of approximately three million people, bordered by Turkey to the west, Azerbaijan to the east, Iran to the south, and Georgia to the north, it… Continue reading
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Reading Between the Lines: Why Rezaee’s CNN Interview Is More About Messaging Than Negotiation
Tehran does not expect negotiations to produce a breakthrough, it wants to shape the narrative around any future escalation My reading of Rezaee’s CNN interview is that it is primarily directed at Western audiences and the cameras, not because Tehran genuinely expects negotiations to produce a breakthrough, but because it wants to shape the narrative… Continue reading
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