Beyond the Waste Land

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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August 2025

Moving Home: Roots, Routes and Ruins

An introductory essay to a series on Zionism's five main ideological currents and their legacy for modern debates on belonging, migration and…

Aug 29, 2025 • Kevin Batcho

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Arctic Encirclement

Geopolitical thunder on the tundra: As the noose tightens on the battlefield, a proxy may be sacrificed—Ukraine’s fate hangs in the balance between…

Aug 12, 2025 • Kevin Batcho

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July 2025

Chalices of the Lie: Noble Myths and the Poison of Denial

The West still chants of victory, but the frontlines say otherwise. Ukraine's fate, like Finland’s before it, may hinge not on courage—but on timing…

Jul 21, 2025 • Kevin Batcho

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