China containment
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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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Hormuz Isn’t the Point
A controlled crisis in Hormuz could deepen East Asia’s dependence on U.S.-aligned energy flows much as Europe was severed from cheap Russian supply On 28 February 2026, United States and Israeli forces launched nearly nine hundred airstrikes against Iran within twelve hours, killing Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei, destroying nuclear facilities and missile infrastructure, and triggering… Continue reading
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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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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
AI and Digital Control, America, China, economics, Energy, EUROPE, Financial markets, Foreign Policy, Geopolitics, Global Finance, iran, israel, middle east, Mineral Resources, NATO, politics, reserve currency, warAmerican decline, BYD versus Tesla, China containment, energy blackmail, energy war, hellscape strategy, Indo-Pacific Command, LNG decoupling, military industrial complex, Nord Stream, Orwellian language, permanent war, proxy warfare, Senate hearing 2026, South Korea, taiwan, Ukraine template, unipolarity, US foreign policy, wood chipper doctrine -
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
AI and Digital Control, America, China, economics, Energy, EUROPE, Financial markets, Foreign Policy, Geopolitics, Global Finance, iran, israel, middle east, NATO, politics, Russia, warAmerican decline, BYD versus Tesla, China containment, energy blackmail, energy war, hellscape strategy, Indo-Pacific Command, LNG decoupling, military industrial complex, Nord Stream, Orwellian language, permanent war, proxy warfare, Senate hearing 2026, South Korea, taiwan, Ukraine template, unipolarity, US foreign policy, wood chipper doctrine -
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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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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Next Stop: Strait of Malacca
From Hormuz blockade logic and the extension of maritime leverage into East Asian energy supply chains American naval forces have expanded interdiction operations beyond the Persian Gulf into the wider Indian Ocean along established commercial shipping routes. Recent seizures of tankers including the Tifani and Majestic X occurred in waters between Sri Lanka and Indonesia… Continue reading
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Israel as Distraction, China as Target: The Structure of an Emerging Systemic War
How regional conflict obscures a larger strategy targeting China’s economic lifelines Something has already changed in the way power is organised, though it is rarely put plainly. The pattern of events still looks familiar, which is why it is easy to miss. Military movements in the Middle East are usually explained in terms of local… Continue reading
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