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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 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
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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
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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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A War on Iran, A Strategy Against China
United States policy toward Iran reflects a broader strategy of energy control aimed at constraining China and maintaining systemic primacy The escalation of United States military and economic pressure against Iran must be understood within a broader strategic framework in which energy flows, maritime chokepoints, and financial systems intersect with long-term competition between major powers,… Continue reading
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Why Russia is Not Fighting Like Iran
Different objectives and different constraint hence Russia’s calibrated attrition contrasts with Iran’s cost-imposition strategy revealing competing paths to power Russia is no longer fighting for victory in Ukraine in the conventional sense; it is determining the scale and timing of an outcome it increasingly believes it can impose. What appears externally as operational restraint reflects… Continue reading
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Iran – The Last Window of Empire to Stop Multipolarity
Why the War on Iran Signals a Final Attempt to Halt Multipolarity Before It Becomes Irreversible A structural rupture in the international system is already underway, and its trajectory has become effectively irreversible. The confrontation centred on Iran constitutes not a regional escalation but a terminal phase in the enforcement of a unipolar order that… Continue reading
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The Invisible Architecture of Power Behind The Global Conflicts
How Transnational Oligarchs, Class Interests, and Strategic Narratives Guide Military, Financial, and Political Decisions Shaping the Modern World A transnational concentration of economic power, largely centred in the United States, is advancing a strategy aimed at consolidating global dominance by weakening sovereign rivals such as Iran, Russia, and China, while deepening Europe’s structural dependence. The… Continue reading
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Gulf States Draw Line on War with Iran
Gulf governments resist integration while exploring alternative security architecture Gulf states are declining participation in any military structure that places them alongside Israel or under a unified command that includes Israeli forces. Abdulaziz Sager, founder of the Gulf Research Center, attributes this position to both political constraints and strategic calculation across the region. Several governments… Continue reading
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America’s Suez Moment at Hormuz
How loss of a single trade route reshapes power, finance, and global order Loss of control over the Strait of Hormuz will mark the end of American global dominance in the same manner that the Suez Canal marked the end of British imperial power, with the mechanism of decline rooted not in immediate military defeat… Continue reading
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