The Baltic Detonator and Full-Scale Escalation
If the drones are already in the Baltic, that is a grotesque amount of risk. But Russia pushing toward a radical solution no longer sounds impossible either.
Kentucky Fried MAGA and Trump’s Cult of Personality
To break a single dissident, Trump had to mobilize the entire machine. He won the votes, but burned his own movement in the process.
The War of Hidden Frequencies and the Baltic Boomerang
Ukrainian drones as a burden for the allies - old-school jamming has merged with information tactics into a new strategy.
Against Artificial Art
Ironically, something called "Future Wars", now already far in the past, reveals to me what it means to find an indelible human trace in an era of fast art.
Kakistocracy: the Worst Become the Natural Choice
Kakistocracy does not come to power by force, but quietly, when a society stops believing it deserves better and begins to recognize its own exhaustion in the worst among us.
First I’ll Lie Down, and If That Isn’t Enough, Let Everything Rot
One morning, no one will get up anymore. Not once they realize it was all rigged, and that the rigging barely differs from country to country, or from system to system.
Iran as the Road to Stalin: The Forgotten Occupation of 1941
One morning in 1941, Iran woke up between two armies. It was not an enemy, not an ally — it was a necessity.
Putin Is Still Europe’s Last Ally
If there are good-cop, bad-cop games being played in the corridors of the Kremlin, Europe is watching the wrong images. Taking Schröder by the arm would be wise, if it is not already too late.
How Silicon Valley Learned to Profit From the End of the World
Why do the heads of AI companies speak as if they are selling catastrophe? Isn’t that counterproductive? Unless existential panic has become part of the business model.
"The Swimmer": An Odysseus in Swim Trunks
Once, in a beautiful Connecticut suburb, one could swim through the private seas of the middle class. But each one led deeper into an uncomfortable truth.
China Must Not Believe It Has Already Won
In the great game, the most dangerous moment is not when the opponent threatens, but when one’s own advantage begins to look more secure than it really is.
Fingers in the Gears, Heads on the Digital Guillotine
Do we even know what the first Industrial Revolution was, or is it only now, on the threshold of a new one, that we hear the grinding of its machines through the hum of our own?
Where Are We When We Are Neither at Home Nor at Work?
We listened to stories about parties at the firehouse. We never lived them. And what we did have is now disappearing before our eyes.
Suez Finished Off an Empire - Hormuz is a Repeat
The world’s chokepoints are not merely decisive energy lines. Sometimes they are doors through which a great power enters as a master - and leaves as a memory.
Hyman Minsky and the Moment Before the Explosion
Economies sometimes do not crack with a bang, but through hidden accumulation on the balance sheet. The most dangerous moment is when everyone still behaves as if nothing has changed.
Helium and Hormuz: Fragility of the Technological Age
The crisis handed to us by Trump and Netanyahu extends far beyond its energy dimension — the helium shortage makes it all-encompassing.
A Montreux for Hormuz: Like Turkey and Dardanelles
At one narrow passage, the world order could break. In the shadow of war, an idea is taking shape that could forever change the flow of global power.
Grand Plans for Greater Israel: Attack on Turkey?
Plans that seemed bizarre until yesterday would once have been dismissed as radical theory, but today they are taking shape — and even receiving confirmation from the very top.
Iran as Collateral for a Collapsing System
Behind the noise about security and values lies a deep panic – the moment when an empire no longer controls its own fate.
God and the Bombers: The Battle Over the War With Iran
As the war escalates, a divide is growing within Christianity: Catholics are leading calls for peace, while evangelicals increasingly provide moral cover for violence.
