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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…
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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.
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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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The Eurocrat Putsch
Feb 17, 2025
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Orphans of Defeat
May 19, 2025
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Quelling the Fire in Ukraine
Mar 20, 2023
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Operation Spiderweb
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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…
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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…
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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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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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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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Killing Kirk
Fighting father figures in an Age of Despair: Charlie Kirk, Nick Fuentes, and the struggle between boomer authority, Zoomer rebellion, and the…
Sep 16, 2025
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Grounding Constellations
Second in a series of sketches exploring Zionism: Tracing lines from the Pale of Settlement in Ukraine to Palestine, where the celestial metaphor of…
Sep 3, 2025
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