Geopolitics, Trade, and Global Power

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The World Is Back at the Poker Table

Essay | Apr 16, 2026 | v1.1 | 2 min read

The post-Cold War game of one giant stack is ending.

The Strait That Holds the Price
Essay | Apr 29, 2026 | v1.1 | 9 min read
Iran's Hormuz proposal shows how a narrow sea passage can turn war, fuel, shipping, fertilizer, and household prices into one shared line.
The Model That Could Not Leave
Essay | Apr 28, 2026 | v1.1 | 11 min read
China's block of Meta's Manus deal shows how AI companies are becoming strategic territory, even after their headquarters, staff, and paperwork move abroad.
The Blockade Has a Phone Number
Essay | Apr 26, 2026 | v1.3 | 9 min read
Washington says Tehran can call when it wants to talk. The Strait of Hormuz is making a different argument in oil, jet fuel, sanctions, and ships.
The World the UN Was Built For
Essay | Feb 5, 2026 | v1.1 | 7 min read
How Postwar Human Rights, Migration Norms, and Global Institutions Were Designed for Europe ~ and Applied to a Very Different World
Who’s Really Funding Terror?
Essay | Nov 22, 2025 | v1.1 | 9 min read
Inside Treasury’s 2024 Terrorist Financing Risk Assessment
Iran Fires Missiles at U.S. Base in Qatar — What Just Happened?
Essay | Jun 23, 2025 | v1.1 | 2 min read
Missiles intercepted. No casualties. Flash in the Pan.
Make Fighter Jets Great Again: Introducing the F-47
Essay | Mar 23, 2025 | v1.1 | 5 min read
Everything We Know About Trump's Sixth-Generation Fighter Jet
Biden’s Strategic Oil Reserve Gamble: Smart Move or National Security Risk?
Essay | Mar 18, 2025 | v1.1 | 10 min read
Draining America’s emergency oil stash to curb gas prices — short-term fix or long-term peril?
Why Superintelligence Strategy Gets AI Governance Wrong
Essay | Mar 12, 2025 | v1.1 | 10 min read
A deep dive into why AI governance frameworks like MAIM fail — and why superintelligence can’t be contained.
Russia’s Slow Surrender: How China is Turning Putin’s War into a Power Play
Essay | Mar 8, 2025 | v1.1 | 3 min read
Putin fights in Ukraine, Beijing tightens its grip on Russia’s future
Trump’s Energy Revolution: Fossil Fuels, Climate Rollbacks, and the Future of U.S. Policy
Essay | Mar 1, 2025 | v1.2 | 26 min read
Why America is Retreating from Global Climate Policy Leadership
Is Trump Seriously Asking for Ukraine’s Mineral Rights — Or Is This Just a Distraction?
Essay | Feb 22, 2025 | v1.1 | 4 min read
(They might actually make a deal)
How Senate Republicans Handle Trump’s Ukraine Rhetoric Without Losing MAGA Support
Essay | Feb 20, 2025 | v1.1 | 3 min read
Hedging Their Bets
Tariffs, Protectionism, and Wishful Thinking
Essay | Feb 20, 2025 | v1.1 | 4 min read
A Historical Look at Economic Nationalism’s Unintended Consequences:
U.S.-Russia Peace Talks
Essay | Feb 19, 2025 | v1.1 | 6 min read
Global Power Shift and America’s Pivot to Asia
U.S. Shifts Ukraine Policy
Essay | Feb 18, 2025 | v1.1 | 6 min read
Secretary Hegseth’s NATO Warning and China Pivot
The Economics of the Mongol Empire
Essay | Feb 17, 2025 | v1.1 | 7 min read
How Genghis Khan Created the First Global Trade Network
DeepSeek: Lean AI Disrupts America’s Compute-Heavy Tech Giants
Essay | Jan 29, 2025 | v1.1 | 6 min read
STaR and the Self-Improving Reasoning Ideas Behind DeepSeek
Beyond Moore’s Law
Essay | Jan 23, 2025 | v1.1 | 9 min read
Examining the Parallels Between Compute Power, Renewable Energy, and Battery Technology
TikTok: The Trojan Horse of Global Influence
Essay | Jan 23, 2025 | v1.1 | 5 min read
TikTok has redefined how people engage with the digital world. With its addictive algorithm, short-form videos, and vast user base, the…
The Death of Moore’s Law
Essay | Jan 17, 2025 | v1.1 | 6 min read
How the Limits of Physics Are Reshaping the Future of Computing