Beyond the Waste Land

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 • Kevin Batcho

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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 • 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 • Kevin Batcho

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February 2026

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 • Kevin Batcho

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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 • Kevin Batcho

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January 2026

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 • 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 • Kevin Batcho

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November 2025

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 • Kevin Batcho

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October 2025

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 • 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 • Kevin Batcho

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September 2025

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 • Kevin Batcho

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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 • Kevin Batcho

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