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When Chinese Goodwill Is Mistaken for Weakness
When Restraint Is Mistaken for Weakness, Goodwill Becomes an Invitation to Take Advantage – Beijing Must Learn That Respect Must Be Mutual. General Article | November 2026 China has been far too accommodating in dealing with certain countries, and the cost of that accommodation is now visible in the strategic behaviour of those who mistake… Continue reading
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A Union Built on Smoke and Mirrors
How the European Union constructed a substitute political project around the defence of Ukraine, financed it through budget headroom and loan guarantees rather than transparent appropriation, and now confronts a fiscal and legitimacy crisis that its ruling class cannot resolve without either abandoning the war or dismantling the financial architecture of liberal Europe. Editorial Analysis… Continue reading
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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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How the United States Is Using Proxies to Destroy the AI Infrastructure of Its Rivals
The strikes on Yandex facilities in Russia reveal a strategic campaign to degrade the technological foundations of multipolar competitors while the Atlantic alliance fractures and the diesel deal buys time for further aggression Editorial Analysis | October 2026 The United States is directing Ukrainian drone strikes on Russian data centres as part of a systematic… Continue reading
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Is the US Insurgency Strategy Against Iran Now in Play?
How Brookings’ Which Path to Persia? envisaged support for armed opposition and what the escalating insurgency in Sistan and Baluchestan reveals about the wider campaign against Tehran. Editorial Analysis | October 2026 The escalation of armed violence in Sistan and Baluchestan during 2026 corresponds precisely to a strategic option formally examined in the Brookings Institution’s… Continue reading
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The Generals in Kiev: Die for the Alliance, But Don’t Ask to Join
NATO alliance’s top military body visited Ukraine to show solidarity while the US says membership that would require them to defend Ukraine is “not on the table” Editorial Analysis | October 2026 The NATO Military Committee’s visit to Kiev on 7 October 2026, the first such visit in eight years, constitutes a strategic communication exercise… Continue reading
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Extracting the Last Reserves: Ukraine’s Manpower Crisis and the Question of Female Conscription
Manpower Crisis, Societal Militarisation and the Class Logic of Prolonged War in Ukraine General Article | September 2026 The debate over compulsory service for Ukrainian women has moved from the margins of policy discussion into sustained public circulation precisely because the existing male mobilisation system has reached visible limits. Former Defence Minister Oleksii Reznikov has… 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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