Nearly 99% of international internet traffic flows through submarine cables thinner than a garden hose, stretched across 1.7 million kilometers of ocean floor. Recent sabotage incidents reveal just how fragile the physical internet really is.
Evergreen Geopolitics & ConflictA Super Micro co-founder allegedly funneled $2.5 billion in Nvidia’s most restricted AI chips to China through a Southeast Asian shell company, using dummy servers and bribed auditors to dodge export controls. The indictment reveals how porous Washington’s chip blockade really is.
Geopolitics & Conflict News & Analysis Tech & AI PolicyEuropean defense budgets have hit record highs, but fragmented procurement, duplicated weapons systems, and a hollowed-out industrial base mean the continent is paying more and getting less. The NATO spending targets may be making the problem worse.
Geopolitics & Conflict News & AnalysisBetween 1932 and 1933, Stalin’s Soviet government engineered a famine in Ukraine that killed nearly four million people. The grain existed. It was taken. This is the story of the Holodomor, one of the 20th century’s worst atrocities, and the decades-long campaign to erase it from history.
Geopolitics & Conflict News & AnalysisOil drops, wheat drops, shipping costs drop. So why is your grocery bill still climbing? The answer involves rockets, feathers, and a system that was never designed to work in reverse.
Geopolitics & Conflict News & AnalysisThe Trump administration sanctioned Palestinian human rights organizations for cooperating with the International Criminal Court. Then YouTube, Google, Mailchimp, and banks deleted their accounts, erasing hundreds of videos documenting alleged war crimes.
Geopolitics & Conflict News & AnalysisThe U.S. approved the sale of 70,000 Nvidia Blackwell chips to Saudi Arabia and the UAE, the largest AI hardware deal ever struck with the Middle East. Behind the numbers lies a geopolitical realignment that trades Chinese tech ties for American silicon and reshapes who gets to build frontier AI.
Geopolitics & Conflict News & Analysis Tech & AI PolicyOil is not just fuel. Between 10% and 20% of every barrel becomes the raw material for plastics, fertilizers, medicines, and thousands of other products. With Brent crude up 80% since the Hormuz crisis began, the price of modern life is being rewritten far beyond the gas pump.
Geopolitics & Conflict News & AnalysisTwenty-two days in, at least 20 countries are militarily involved, the Strait of Hormuz is closed, oil is up nearly 50 percent, and 85 nations are feeling the pain at the pump. But by every official definition, this is not a world war. Here is what it actually is.
Geopolitics & Conflict News & AnalysisIran’s strikes on Gulf states follow a brutal strategic logic: if your neighbor hosts the bases used to bomb you, your neighbor becomes the battlefield. For six GCC nations now dodging missiles, American protection has become a liability.
Geopolitics & Conflict News & AnalysisThe USS Charlotte torpedoed Iran’s IRIS Dena just days after the frigate left India’s flagship naval exercise. India’s 24-hour silence and failure to lead the rescue exposed a widening gap between New Delhi’s “net security provider” rhetoric and its operational reality in the Indian Ocean.
Geopolitics & Conflict News & AnalysisFrom colonial snake bounties to modern pollution laws, the history of well-intentioned policies that backfire reveals an uncomfortable truth: the hardest part of solving a problem is making sure the solution doesn’t make it worse.
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