Both maritime chokepoints for data are closed for the first time in history. The AI industry just discovered its labor supply chain runs through a war zone.
Artificial Intelligence Geopolitics & ConflictDenmark deployed explosives and blood supplies to Greenland in January 2026, preparing to destroy runways at Nuuk and Kangerlussuaq if the United States invaded. Eight European nations helped.
Geopolitics & Conflict News & AnalysisFive narrow waterways carry the bulk of global trade. When they fail, the detours are measured in weeks and the costs in billions. Here is how the system actually works.
Explainers Geopolitics & ConflictBelarus freed 250 political prisoners in exchange for U.S. potash sanctions relief. The Iran war's fertilizer crisis made the deal possible. More than 850 prisoners remain.
Geopolitics & Conflict News & AnalysisOil is the commodity central bankers lose sleep over and most people encounter only as a number on a gas station sign. How benchmarks, futures, and OPEC actually determine the price of everything.
Explainers Geopolitics & ConflictA proxy war lets major powers compete through local combatants instead of fighting each other. The strategy is old. The consequences, from Afghanistan to Yemen, keep compounding.
Explainers Geopolitics & ConflictPakistan struck a 2,000-bed drug rehabilitation hospital in Kabul, killing at least 408 people. The attack is the deadliest incident in an undercovered war between two nuclear-armed neighbors.
Geopolitics & Conflict News & AnalysisEconomic sanctions succeed roughly one in three times. The mechanism is a four-link chain, and the history of sanctions is mostly the history of those links breaking.
Explainers Geopolitics & ConflictIran's drone strikes on Fujairah and Dubai Airport did not just damage infrastructure. They dismantled the assumption that oil could bypass the Strait of Hormuz.
Geopolitics & Conflict News & AnalysisMore than 1,000 Kenyans were lured to fight for Russia in Ukraine with promises of civilian jobs. A Kenyan intelligence report, diplomatic talks in Moscow, and a growing death toll expose a trafficking pipeline spanning 36 African countries.
Geopolitics & Conflict News & AnalysisDrug cartels do not simply bribe officials. They systematically dismantle institutions, replace state authority with their own, and embed themselves in the economy until removal means collapse. The playbook is documented, repeatable, and usually recognized only after it has worked.
Explainers Geopolitics & ConflictThe US-Israeli war on Iran follows a recognizable pattern: create unbearable conditions, wait for a reaction, use the reaction to justify the escalation you already planned. The problem is that this playbook was designed for a 40-kilometer strip, not a country with ballistic missiles and control of a fifth of the world's oil.
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