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Analytics
Iraq’s Great Purge: Is Ali al-Zaidi Fighting Corruption or Seizing the State?
Iraq’s purge no longer looks like an ordinary anti-corruption campaign. It increasingly resembles the beginning of a major redistribution of power.
NATO Walks Into Ankara Without the America That Built It
In Turkey, NATO must do more than agree on a declaration. It must acknowledge a new reality: the United States is no longer prepared to serve as Europe’s endless insurer, Ukraine has become a test of strategic will, and Ankara is turning the alliance’s crisis into its own geopolitical capital.
America Struck Iran Like a Superpower and Bargained Like a Hostage
The war with Iran was supposed to become proof of President Trump's strength. It was conceived as an operation in which America would once again demonstrate the classic formula of its power: precise intelligence, a lightning-fast strike, shattered enemy facilities, and then a deal on American terms.
Who Presses the Armenian Button: The Hidden Mechanics of Pressure on Ankara
In world politics, there are topics that live not in archives, but in the corridors of power. They resurface not when historians discover a new document, but when states need leverage. They do not explain the past so much as they serve the present.
Iran No Longer Hides Behind Hezbollah. Now It Is Saving It
In southern Lebanon, portraits of Iranian leaders still hang at the entrances to Shiite villages like political icons of the old Middle East: Tehran above, Hezbollah on the front line, Israel in the crosshairs, and America forced to count missiles, routes, oil tankers, and possible funerals.
The Most Expensive Promise - and Why Baku Does Not Make It
There is a phrase that never fails to win applause from any podium: "a monthly allowance for every child." Arguing against it feels just as awkward as arguing against a wish for good health. Behind it lies a seductive image of a state that does not divide children into its own and others.
The Crimean Corridor is Cracking at the Seams: A New War Rages on Roads, Not in Trenches
The most critical events of recent weeks in Russia's war against Ukraine are no longer unfolding solely on the line of combat contact.
Why Israel Distrusts the US-Iran Deal
Agreements in the Middle East rarely die from a single blow. Usually, they begin to die at the moment of their birth - from distrust, hidden reservations, and mismatched maps through which different capitals read the same reality. This is precisely what happened with the memorandum of understanding between the US and Iran.
Trump Wanted Victory Over Iran. America Got the Invoice
After signing the memorandum of understanding with Iran and announcing new negotiations, Washington formally paused the war. Trump, as usual, chose the language of a victorious TV show rather than diplomacy. This is beautiful packaging. Inside, however, lies heavy strategic accounting.
Economy
Locked Out of Europe: How the Housing Crisis Is Destroying the EU’s Social Contract
For decades, the European project rested on a simple, unwritten promise: if a person works, pays taxes, follows the rules, and takes part in society, he or she can count on a basic level of stability. Not luxury, not a palace, not a sea view, but a decent apartment, a long term lease, a mortgage, a family, and a predictable future.
The president who monetized power: how cryptocurrency became Trump’s main business
There has always been money in American politics. It moved through donors, lobbyists, foundations, super PACs, family offices, law firms, speaking fees, book deals, and private receptions where a checkbook often opened doors faster than a political program.
Volkswagen Is Not the Story. Europe's Industrial Empire Is Falling
The crisis at Volkswagen should not be viewed as another corporate restructuring. This is not merely an accounting exercise, another round of workforce optimization, or a temporary decline in demand.
Russia’s Investment Winter Has Begun - and It Is Devouring the Country’s Future
Outwardly, the Russian economy is still holding its posture. On paper, there is no collapse, no mass unemployment, no dramatic breakdown in consumption. For a political showcase, this is enough. For an economic diagnosis, it is not.
Who Owns the Mind? Inside the Biggest Theft of the AI Age
In previous eras, industrial espionage looked almost cinematic. A night office, a cracked safe, stolen blueprints, a flash drive in an engineer's pocket, a recruited employee, a photograph of a secret machine. In the era of artificial intelligence, everything is different. There may be no safe. There may be no blueprints.
The White Eagle Became a Black Mark: How Poland and Ukraine Fell Out at the Worst Possible Moment
In high politics, it is not always missiles, gas pipelines, or border checkpoints that explode. Sometimes a symbol explodes.
The Cracks Beneath the Markets Are Widening: Private Credit, Geopolitics, and the Risk of a New Financial Crisis
Financial crises almost never arrive out of nowhere. They do not strike like lightning from a clear blue sky. First, the tone of the market shifts. Then a nervous laugh creeps into business conversations. Before long, the talk turns to temporary disruptions, isolated overheating, spot selloffs, individual mistakes by individual players.
Hormuz May Threaten Oil. Data Centers Threaten Everything Else
Why the war surrounding Iran may only be a prologue to a far more brutal struggle for energy, algorithms, vulnerabilities, and power over the new world system
