GEOPOLITICS

AFTER PUTIN

Power, Succession and the Architecture of Russian Uncertainty.

September's Duma vote handed Putin a constitutional majority until 2031 and pushed the succession another five years down the road. Whoever finally inherits the Kremlin may or may not inherit the war, but will inherit the clans, a quiet digital surveillance state that grew while nobody noticed anything but its convenience, and a Slavic nation that has never let others decide where it begins and where it ends.

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PO-FACED POKER & A JOKER WITH NOTHING TO LOSE

A Live Dispatch on the Clearing of the Global Energy Market.

A live dispatch from the table where nobody shows their cards. Two moves cleared the board, Caracas in January, Hormuz in February, and the same broker dealt himself the winning hand in both. Follow the molecules, not the headlines.

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PALANTROPIA

The Seeing-Stone State; Inside the Technological Republic.

The palantíri were seeing-stones that showed you everything and drove their watchers mad. The firm took the name on purpose. Inside the company quietly wiring the surveillance republic, and the true believers who call it the defence of the West.

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THE SPIRIT OF EXUMA

Same As It Ever Was. Five Centuries of Sea Law, Banking Houses and the Space Between Flags.

One leaked directory, 222 names, and a retreat near Dublin that never happened. The answer does not start in Ireland, nor in this century. It begins with three gold balls over a door on Lombard Street and ends above the atmosphere, in the only ocean left that has no coastline. The families that have held structural power since the medieval period never needed a conference.

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THE PERMANENT REVOLUTION

From the Jacobin Template to the Sorelian Synthesis.

There is a thread. It runs from the Committee of Public Safety in 1793 to the present institutional landscape without breaking. This is the progressive intellectual history they prefer you don't read as a continuous narrative.

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THE JESUITS: DOING GOD'S WORK WITH OTHER PEOPLE'S MONEY

From the Black Papacy on Mons Vaticanus to a Pentagon Moonship.

From a Basque soldier's sickbed to a Pentagon moonship, the longest institutional thread in the West, and the dead goddess whose name still sits in the first syllable of the Vatican.

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THREE AMIGOS AT THE SANDS

A word on the company these three features keep.

Sinatra, Martin and Davis worked out that power is mostly stagecraft and the rest is who picks up the cheque. Grievance, surveillance, absolution: one stage, three turns, a single act, and you never needed them in a room together.

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HOW RUSSIA CAN END THE UKRAINE WAR

Strategic Blueprint for Victory on the 4th Anniversary of the SMO. Part One.

Four years in. Russia keeps grinding down Ukraine, slowly. Artillery, drones, glide bombs, electronic warfare and a Cold War supply architecture that never went away, against a third line of defence that exists on paper and in Marbella real estate.

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THE ARCHITECTURE OF THE NEW DISORDER

Energy, Power and the Collapse of the Westphalian World.

Six weeks of war redrew the map of global energy dependency, and the country that built the rules-based order suspended it in a single strike. The sovereign state had a good run. What comes next has no name yet.

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