The next major war? What the South China Sea is really about To state it right from the start: This is neither about oil nor […]
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The Rupture with the Global System: How Russia and China are Chasing Down Western Aviation
Like China before it—which faced intense sanctions aimed at dismantling its advanced industries and destabilizing its economy—Russia was hit by Western economic sanctions so severe […]
Europe’s Long War With Russia: The 200-Year Geopolitical Pattern No One Wants to Admit
There is a long historical continuity of European involvement in attempts to weaken, constrain, or destroy Russia, which can be understood across several overlapping historical […]
Shooting at Baliem Festival Highlights Rising Tensions in West Papua
Two tourists were shot during the Baliem Valley Festival in West Papua on August 8, in an attack that brought the region’s most important cultural […]
Why Nicaragua Cancelling Elections Is A Good Thing
Nicaragua cancelling elections has been presented in much of the international media as another example of a revolutionary government abandoning democracy. The image created is […]
Predictions as Power: How AI Forecasts Shape Our Future — and Accelerate Techno‑Feudal Control
“Predictions sound like facts, but they are not.” That line, repeated by Carissa Véliz, an AI researcher at Oxford, in her new work Prophecy: Prediction, Power, […]
The Morality of Power: War, Virtue, and the Pursuit of Harmony in Asian Statecraft
While the Western tradition often invoked the idea of a “just war” (bellum iustum) to legitimize expansion or ideological ambition, Asian thought framed military force […]
The Collapse of Nationalist China: Corruption, Military Defeat, and the Limits of American Power
Chongqing became China’s wartime capital during World War II. At the time, the Western Allies looked at China and saw a superpower in the making. […]
Vietnam’s Warrior Queen: Why This General is Still Honored Today
I’m standing at the foot of the massive statue of Lê Chân in the heart of Haiphong, Vietnam’s legendary port city. Most people know Haiphong today as […]
The Alternative Rises Because the Establishment Failed
Germany’s political class spent years pretending that the costs of mass migration were imaginary, or at least too impolite to mention. That lie has finally […]