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The Unit Settlement Instrument and the Material Limits of Multipolar Finance
The BRICS+ pilot of a gold-and-currency basket digital settlement token represents a significant technical experiment in parallel financial infrastructure, yet its trajectory remains constrained by the same capitalist contradictions that produced the dollar-centric order it seeks to circumvent. Editorial Analysis | September 2026 The Unit settlement instrument emerged from a specific historical conjuncture that fundamentally… Continue reading
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Building Parallel Architecture Against Weaponised Finance
The Bishkek Summit and the Practical Contours of Eurasian Multipolar Construction Editorial Analysis | September 2026 The twenty-fifth summit of the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation held in Bishkek generated less theatrical display than the preceding gathering in Tianjin yet advanced several concrete institutional steps that clarify the organisation’s evolving role. Member states adopted a final declaration… Continue reading
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China Gives Its Inland Factories a Direct Route to Southeast Asia
New Trade Route Linking China’s Inland Factories to Southeast Asia Later this month, cargo ships are expected to begin using a new and shorter route from China’s industrial southwest to the sea. The 134-kilometre Pinglu Canal connects Nanning and the inland river network of Guangxi to the Gulf of Tonkin. The canal has been built… Continue reading
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Russia Threatens Reciprocal Ship Seizures as Warship Maintains Permanent Channel Presence
Permanent Russian naval presence in the Channel and explicit threats of reciprocal merchant-ship seizures mark a doctrinal shift from protective escort to contested enforcement of maritime trade routes Russian President Vladimir Putin has warned that Moscow will respond “in kind” to European seizures of vessels linked to its oil trade, stating that any such actions… Continue reading
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Armenia Regime-Changed Without A Shot Fired
How the 2018 Velvet Revolution Exemplifies the US Strategy of Political Capture of a Sovereign Country The March 1992 leak of the Defense Planning Guidance to the New York Times revealed a strategic vision that would shape American foreign policy for three decades. The document, prepared by Paul Wolfowitz’s policy office, asserted that the United… Continue reading
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Moscow Warns Baltic States Against Deeper Involvement in Ukraine Drone War
Russian intelligence claims Latvia is facilitating Ukrainian drone operations against Russian territory, raising the risk that the Baltic theatre could become the next escalation point in the widening confrontation between NATO and Moscow. Russia’s Foreign Intelligence Service has accused Latvia of permitting Ukrainian drone operators to use NATO territory for potential strikes against targets inside… Continue reading
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NATO’s Baltic Gamble Risks Direct War With Russia
Allegations of Ukrainian drone operations linked to Latvian territory expose the collapsing boundary between proxy conflict and open confrontation between nuclear powers, while Europe drifts deeper into a war increasingly detached from democratic consent or strategic restraint. The alleged use of Latvian territory and NATO-linked infrastructure for Ukrainian drone operations against targets deep inside Russia… Continue reading
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LEGO Wars and Missiles: The Art of Beating Superpowers
An analysis of how strategic preparation, control of critical infrastructure, and narrative influence have given Iran an advantage over superior militaries The war between the United States, Israel, and Iran shows a clear outcome taking shape despite the absence of formal declaration. Iran is winning the war, not through decisive battlefield victory, but through control… Continue reading
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Iran as an Underdog has Proven Effective and now Holds Significant Leverage
The consequences of underestimation and misreading capability by the United States and Israel has resulted in measurable strategic cost The available evidence indicates that the scale and resilience of Iranian state capacity under sustained attack have been materially underestimated in much Western policy analysis, despite repeated cautions issued over several years by academic specialists in… Continue reading
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Washington Drops the Mask and Calls for Informants Inside Iran
Iranian Leadership Casts CIA Recruitment Appeal as Proof of Regime Destabilization Efforts In a move that dispenses with even the pretense of neutrality, the CIA’s verified X account publicly issued a Persian-language appeal urging Iranians to contact the agency through secure channels, promising it can “hear your voice.” The message included instructions on using Tor… Continue reading
