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NATO’s narrative of Ukrainian victory is failing to correspond to battlefield reality
The Ankara Summit and the Escalating Logic of Russian Military Strategy The NATO summit that concluded in Ankara on July 8 was intended to project alliance cohesion and demonstrate unwavering support for Ukraine. The final declaration pledged €70 billion in military equipment, assistance, and training for Ukraine in 2026, with a commitment to maintain at… Continue reading
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The Reckoning of Artificial Intelligence
Debt, Delusion, and the Coming Tech Depression Tags: Artificial Intelligence, Venture Capital, Hyperscalers, Corporate Debt, Semiconductor Industry, US Defence Budget, Technology Policy, Financial Risk For the better part of a decade, the technology industry has presented itself as the engine of modernity and economic growth. Its leading firms were celebrated as paragons of efficiency, generating… Continue reading
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Moscow tells Berlin to stop arming Kiev instead of preaching peace
The Russian Foreign Ministry spokeswoman argues Germany should stop supporting Kiev militarily instead of calling on Moscow to end the conflict. Russian Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova has dismissed a German diplomat’s suggestion that Russia end the Ukraine conflict as a way to resolve fuel shortages, arguing instead that Germany should stop supporting Kiev militarily.… Continue reading
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Two Fronts, One Strategic Architecture
How RAND’s Russia strategy and Brookings’ Iran strategy were written into the wars that followed RAND Corporation is not an independent commentator sitting outside the American state. It is a federally funded research and development centre that has operated under standing contract to the US Army, the Air Force, and the Office of the Secretary… Continue reading
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The Proxy War
How EU Financing, NATO Procurement, British Weapons Programmes and the Command of Negotiations Sustain Ukraine’s War Effort On 3 July, President Vladimir Putin appeared in military fatigues at a forward command post in Donbas, a day after Russian forces launched one of the largest combined drone and missile strikes of the war against Kyiv. The… Continue reading
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Decline on the World Stage
Strategic Solvency, Institutional Interventions, and the Structural Attrition of the Transnational System Editorial Analysis |July 2026 The Strategic Insolvency of Asymmetric Conflict The structural stability of a global superpower depends on maintaining strategic solvency, a condition where external military commitments remain balanced by domestic fiscal capacity and industrial endurance. The deployment of significant American military… Continue reading
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Estonia loses major sports event after refusing entry to Russian and Belarusian athletes
The dispute shows how international competitions have become entangled with the geopolitical stance against Russia by the West. Estonia has lost the right to host a major European shooting championship after refusing to comply with the governing body’s requirement that eligible Russian and Belarusian athletes be allowed to participate. The European Shooting Confederation (ESC) announced… Continue reading
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A University Degree is No Longer Worth It
Fiscal Drag, Structural Wage Stagnation, and the Eroding Economic Returns of British Higher Education The institutional expansion of British higher education over the past three decades proceeded upon an explicit economic assumption that the acquisition of an undergraduate degree automatically yielded an enduring lifetime earnings premium. This structural contract, which served to justify the transition… Continue reading
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America’s Terrorist Pipeline For War with China
Two recent decisions to remove designated terrorist organisations from US lists sit inside a longer pattern of tactical realignment against China and Russia National Public Radio published a lengthy feature on 17 May 2026 profiling Uyghur fighters who helped topple the Assad government in Syria, describing them through interviews conducted in Idlib and Jisr al-Shughur… Continue reading
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America at Two Hundred and Fifty- A Spectacle of Decline and Questions Over Who Actually Rules
Food stamps, opioid deaths and a cage fight on the White House lawn, read against rival theories of American power On 14 June 2026, President Donald Trump marked his eightieth birthday and the run-up to the semiquincentennial of American independence with a mixed martial arts card staged on the South Lawn of the White House,… Continue reading
