Beyond the Waste Land

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 • 

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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 • 

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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 • 

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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 • 

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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 • 

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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 • 

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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 • 

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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 • 

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June 2025

One and Done?

Operation Midnight Hammer hit empty infrastructure, not enriched uranium—leaving the US potentially mired in a long, slow pursuit of Iran’s nuclear…

Jun 23 • 

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Apocalypse Iran: MAGA Boots to Tehran?

Will the initial rush of geopolitical dopamine that bombing Iran delivers give way to the grim reality of a prolonged, costly war of attrition with no…

Jun 20 • 

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Operation Spiderweb

REALLY BAD things happened to Russia, but does destroying a few aging bombers actually change the war? Will Putin abandon his main hunt for victory in…

Jun 3 • 

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May 2025

Orphans of Defeat

Behind Istanbul’s failed diplomacy: Western denial, Russian momentum, and Trump trapped between two walls. As defeat looms, the war party scrambles for…

May 19 • 

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