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Trickster in a Stranglehold
Trump has few cards as Iran is winning the Battle of Hormuz by slowly chocking out the global economy while their powerful missile arsenal is expelling…
Mar 30
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Khamenei 2.0
The US-Israeli folie à deux face strategic defeat in the Persian Gulf. Iran's stranglehold on Hormuz is fatal to financial oligarchs, who in turn may…
Mar 9
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Kevin Batcho
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A Narcissist and a Neurotic
Trump counts in days. Netanyahu counts in millennia. Their war against Persia is a clash of mental fictions and of time itself. The narcissist seeks…
Mar 6
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Ordered Off the World-Island
Mar 10, 2023
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Desperately Seeking NATO Intervention?
Aug 29, 2024
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Kevin Batcho
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The Eurocrat Putsch
Feb 17, 2025
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Orphans of Defeat
May 19, 2025
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Kevin Batcho
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Quelling the Fire in Ukraine
Mar 20, 2023
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Operation Spiderweb
Jun 3, 2025
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Endgame Ukraine: Two Case Studies
The Franco-Prussian War of 1870-1 and the US Civil War both offer hints and glimpses of how the Ukraine War may conclude: either France's negotiated…
Feb 4
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Gathering Storm in the Persian Gulf
Kevin (@baudelmarx) and Kim (@RSA_Observer) discuss the American build-up around Iran.
Feb 1
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Sovereignty's Pendulum
Trapped between utopian dreams and realist dictates, Europe and Iran must correct their mirrored political pathologies or risk collapse in an era of…
Jan 17
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Kevin Batcho
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Potemkin Regime Change?
Less Is More? Trump's minimalist actions in Venezuela fluffed by maximalist rhetoric may turn Teddy Roosevelt's famous slogan on its head: Speak a big…
Jan 5
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Clash of Hemispheres
Sundered are the peacemakers: Trump and Putin speak across a neurological fault line, where the left and right hemispheres wage their dissonant struggle…
Nov 10, 2025
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Kevin Batcho
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Gaslighting the Lava Flow
West's war of words cannot halt the slow, inevitable grind of Russian advances. In tandem with China, Moscow is crystallizing an emerging global order…
Oct 21, 2025
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Kevin Batcho
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Mommy Issues
A mythological and psychoanalytic study of the debauched US-Israel couple, where US paternal authority has collapsed into a child-mother orgy of desire…
Oct 9, 2025
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