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Iran’s Gas Capacity Claim and the Politics of Self-Sufficiency
Pezeshkian’s Moscow figures reveal a production system built under pressure, yet the distinction between capacity and output complicates the strategic picture General Article | October 2026 The Gas Exporting Countries Forum convened in Moscow during late October 2026, bringing together states that collectively hold the majority of the world’s natural gas reserves, and the Iranian… Continue reading
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Why Europe Blinked: The Russian Billions It Cannot Touch
The European Union Cannot Seize Russian Assets Without Destroying Its Own Financial Order Editorial Analysis | October 2026 The European Union entered the final months of 2025 with an apparent consensus that Russian sovereign assets immobilised within its jurisdiction should be converted into financial support for Ukraine. Approximately €210 billion in Russian central bank reserves… Continue reading
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The Diesel Deal and the Fracturing of the Atlantic Order
How a single phone call between Putin and Trump exposed the collapse of NATO unity, the desperation of the American energy crisis, and the emergence of a multipolar diplomatic architecture that bypasses the institutions of Western hegemony Editorial Analysis | October 2026 The ninety-minute telephone conversation between Vladimir Putin and Donald Trump on the evening… Continue reading
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The Economic D-Day That Never Came
Washington promised to drive Iranian oil exports to zero and ground Iran’s airlines by late September. Nearly fifty days later, the oil is still moving, the planes are still landing, and the political and monetary costs are landing squarely on the United States. Editorial Analysis | October 2026 The “Economic D-Day” was presented as the… 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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Order Out of Chaos: The Architecture of Permanent Conflict
An independent analysis of the post-9/11 order, its institutional drivers, and the material consequences of hegemonic overreach Editorial Analysis | September 2026 The comment that Benjamin Netanyahu made on the evening of 11 September 2001, when asked by the New York Times what the attacks meant for relations between the United States and Israel, has… Continue reading
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The Unipolar Delusion and the Return of Great-Power Politics: Why Western Escalation Reflects Panic Rather Than Strength
Editorial Analysis | September 2026 The collapse of the Soviet Union produced a distribution of global power that left Washington in effective control of the international system. That concentration of power, combined with the desire to maintain it in perpetuity, created structural incentives that shaped American foreign policy for three decades. One side emerged from… Continue reading
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Ukraine’s Losing War and the West’s Strategic Dead End
How military exhaustion, fiscal collapse, and internal political disintegration have transformed the conflict into a question of settlement terms rather than battlefield victory Editorial Analysis | September 2026 Ukraine is losing this war, and the trajectory of defeat, while gradual, appears increasingly inexorable. This is not a judgment upon the Ukrainian soldiers nor upon the… Continue reading
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The Bishkek Declaration and the Architecture of Imperial Continuity
The Shanghai Cooperation Organisation’s unanimous condemnation of the American-Israeli attack on Iran signals more than diplomatic posturing; it exposes the deepening structural contradictions within a unipolar order that can no longer enforce its will without provoking collective resistance. Editorial Analysis | September 2026 The Shanghai Cooperation Organisation’s Bishkek Declaration, adopted on 1 September 2026, represents… Continue reading
