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March 2025

Years of Dread: Part 4 – Empire Rising
Conclusion: How Ukraine’s impending defeat will mutate nationalist defiance into Azov’s transnational terror, seeking to destabilize America while…
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Years of Dread: Part 3 – Strategy of Tension
A case study in how Italy’s Years of Lead used tension to erode national sovereignty in favour of the promised stability of supranational governance.
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Years of Dread: Part 2 – Lost Causes
War’s ancient Wheel spins victors and vanquished through time. History shows how the fallen wrestle and win over loss, clawing back to a peak where…
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Years of Dread: Part I – The Gathering Storm
Introduction: How a Lost Cause terrorist campaign, emerging from Ukraine’s looming defeat, threatens the US and EU—but in radically different forms
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Business Decision
During an Oval Office showdown, Trump makes a business decision, ending America’s geopolitical tug-of-war with Russia over Ukraine—echoing Thucydides…
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February 2025

Badman Theory
A Tale of Three Quagmires: Korea, Vietnam, Ukraine—and Three Theories to End War. From Eisenhower’s Good Cop/Bad Cop to Nixon’s Madman to Trump’s Badman…
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Beyond California: Becoming Denmark
Discerning Takers from Makers, Finance from Production, Poison from Cure: The Jungian Path to Integrated Prosperity in a World of Fractured Psyches.
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Tech-Bro Spring
Finance withered, control faltered, and the Woke Scolds corroded from within. Yet history turns: spring stirs, production beckons—as the Tech Bros…
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