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American Elections Cannot End the Wars That Corporate Power Requires
The United States has not suspended intelligence sharing with Ukraine, the war in Ukraine is a proxy war against Russia that began in 2014 and continues to escalate, and the midterm elections are scripted performances designed to prevent the public from recognising the corporate interests that actually determine policy Editorial Analysis | October 2026 The… Continue reading
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The Abandonment of Ukraine That Never Was
The narrative of US withdrawal from Ukraine is a mechanism for forcing Europe to pay for and fight a proxy war that serves American interests, while the arms industry collects the profits and the working class bears the costs Editorial Analysis | October 2026 The narrative that the United States is abandoning Ukraine has been… Continue reading
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Washington Expands Its Proxy War in West Asia Whilst Retaining Its Grip on Iraq
The withdrawal was a repositioning. The burden-sharing network and new alliance of proxies is the real story as the war on multipolarism expands. Editorial Analysis | October 2026 The withdrawal of United States military forces from Iraq on 30 September 2026 has been presented by officials in Washington as the conclusion of a wartime mission… Continue reading
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The Cannibal Economy
How the US is converting civilian industry to arms production and draining its clients to sustain primacy Editorial Analysis | October 2026 The United States has entered a phase of imperial decline in which the strategies employed to sustain global primacy are themselves accelerating the erosion of the material foundations upon which that primacy rests.… Continue reading
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The President Changes. The Strategy Doesn’t
American Primacy, Structural Entrenchment, and the Path to Permanent Conflict On 8 March 1992, the New York Times published a front-page report under the headline “U.S. Strategy Plan Calls for Insuring No Rivals Develop,” based on a leaked draft of the Pentagon’s Defense Planning Guidance for fiscal years 1994 to 1999. The document, drafted under… Continue reading
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A Division of Labour in WarA Division of Labour in War
The Transfer of Strategic Burden from Washington to Europe in the Ukraine Conflict The Ukraine conflict has entered a phase in which military attrition matters less than institutional transfer. Washington no longer behaves as a state attempting to terminate a costly war through settlement. It behaves as a system reallocating operational responsibility to subordinate allies… Continue reading
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