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Do Not Underestimate the United States (Editorial Version)
An analytical examination of the US blockade on Iran, the systematic disruption of energy flows to Asia, and the long-term campaign to isolate China The United States Navy’s deployment of FA-18 Super Hornets to conduct strafing attacks against Iranian commercial tankers in the Gulf of Oman on 6 and 8 May 2026, three vessels targeted,… Continue reading
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Do Not Underestimate the United States (Long Version)
Why the United States Seeks Control of Supply Routes Rather Than Conventional Victory American power has repeatedly been misread during prolonged geopolitical confrontations because commentators continue measuring strategic success through the narrow lens of immediate battlefield outcomes rather than through cumulative institutional, economic, and infrastructural transformation across decades. Independent geopolitical analyst Brian Berletic argued during… Continue reading
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Trump’s Beijing Delegation Exposed the Real Structure of American Power (Short Version)
The Beijing visit exposed how transnational corporations, financial institutions, and technology monopolies now operate openly as the permanent power structure beneath American electoral politics. This is the short version analytical examination of Donald Trump’s state visit to China and its implications for the emerging multipolar order. See link at the bottom for the extended version.… Continue reading
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Trump’s Beijing Delegation Exposed the Real Structure of American Power [Extended Version]
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The Beijing visit exposed how transnational corporations, financial institutions, and technology monopolies now operate openly as the permanent power structure beneath American electoral politics. Donald Trump arrived in Beijing flanked by the commanding layer of American corporate and financial power because the visit exposed something Washington normally prefers hidden behind electoral theatre: transnational capital, technology… Continue reading
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Kagan and Boot: The Guilty Are Writing the Verdict (Extended Version)
From Tehran to Taiwan: The Men Who Built America’s Empire Are Now Writing Its Autopsy The extraordinary significance of the Max Boot interview with former CIA analyst John Culver does not rest merely in the military assessments themselves, severe as they already appear. The deeper significance rests in who is speaking, where they are speaking,… 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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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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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
