Alliances are forged to prevent war. But when the first soldier dies defending another country, the promise of security can turn into a duty of revenge.
A system reveals whom it truly serves not by how it punishes the powerless, but by what happens when the untouchable are caught.
On the map, they may appear as a few remaining points. On the ground, these are interconnected cities, railways, rivers, and fortresses that could swallow years of war.
Berlin may not want war with Russia. But what if peace no longer suits it politically and economically as much as it should?
When a plan works, it doesn't need to be explained with explosions. When it doesn't work, explosions cannot hide it - real or imagined.
Switzerland may not formally abandon neutrality, but it will do something even worse - hollow it out to such an extent that it no longer means anything.
When war becomes a system, replacing the man at the top is no longer just politics: armies, capital, technology and future power all move with him.
Major powers like wars fought far from their homes. The problem starts when the opponent decides that distance will no longer be a protection.
Is every outside help betrayal? Is every repression a defense of the state? Yabloko opens an uncomfortable question that Russia no longer wants to hear.
Three allies are building a common shield in the midst of war — but it remains to be seen whether it will protect them or someone else’s interests.
When millions can no longer buy obedience, America begins to discover just how badly its old political centre has decayed.
Drones can still be hunted cheaply. But when a missile pierces the sky and demands a perfect defence, the entire war comes down to a matter of seconds.
Kiev is changing under the pressure of the street, but the real test is yet to come: can Moscow admit that the technological war has exposed its weaknesses as well?
Four appointments, one message: in the new war there is no rear, logistics decides who survives and advances, and no one even imagines how it ends.
War from afar protects political and military heads but depletes rare capacities. When those run out, only raw war with all its visible consequences remains.
While Europe seeks relief from the heat, its rivers are receding, quietly extinguishing a system we believed to be almost indestructible.
One dead sailor on a closed sea may just be a war statistic, but behind the attack, a strategic space is already emerging where there is no longer a neutral shore.
Ukraine, Israel, empire and capital: where rebellion should begin, Farage’s alternative collapses into complete continuity with the old order.
While the West seeks a "new axis of evil," what we are really witnessing is a strategy that connects Ukraine, Taiwan, and wars yet to come.
Millions of people can starve, flee, and die almost unnoticed when their tragedy does not serve the interests of the great powers.
