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Terminal Trajectories
Traced atop faded outlines of past wars, this cartography of collapse maps four endgames for Ukraine: unravelling alliances, imposed peace, grinding…
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Kevin Batcho
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America's Five-Front Trap
With Ukraine peace efforts dead, the U.S. now confronts five active fronts—against Russia, China, Iran, North Korea, and Yemen—with allies hesitant to…
May 3
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Kevin Batcho
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April 2025
Global War 6: Tariff Strife
Trump launches, then backpedals on a global tariff blitz primarily aimed at China. America's twin global roles—world cop and financial anchor—are…
Apr 12
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Trump’s American Rebuild
As Trump bets on tariffs to jumpstart a U.S. manufacturing comeback, the question looms: can America reindustrialize without reinventing the global…
Apr 4
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Kevin Batcho
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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…
Mar 28
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Kevin Batcho
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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.
Mar 24
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Years of Dread: Part 3 – Strategy of Tension
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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…
Mar 15
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Years of Dread: Part 2 – Lost Causes
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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
Mar 11
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Kevin Batcho
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Years of Dread: Part I – The Gathering Storm
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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…
Mar 3
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Kevin Batcho
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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…
Feb 28
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Kevin Batcho
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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.
Feb 26
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Kevin Batcho
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Beyond California: Becoming Denmark
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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…
Feb 24
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