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.
America’s Maritime Empire Against China’s Continental World
The clash between sea and land, the great geopolitical confrontation that has endured since the 19th century, is now returning as the central battle of our time.
Big Story
The Cloud Has Fallen to Earth and Is Swallowing Everything in Its Path
Behind the language of innovation lies an infrastructure that is reshaping bills, landscapes, energy systems, and security before the public grasps what is really at stake.
Welcome to Yakutsk, the coldest city in the world
In Yakutsk, engines are rarely switched off, fur coats are almost never removed, and waiting for the morning bus in −40°C is part of daily life. Yet despite the brutal cold, the warmth of the people remains unmistakable.
Either in their own model, or plugged into someone else’s socket.
Computing power is the new oil — states will have to "rent someone else’s mind"
Computing power is becoming the new global resource: an invisible force dividing nations into those that think for themselves and those that rent someone else’s mind.
