I don't need to tell you that we are living through world-historical times right now. The frequency of world-changing events is accelerating even as the impact of these events on our day-to-day lives is increasing. As Lenin rightly observed: "There are decades where...
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The Great Withdrawal
An extraordinary thing happened this week: Taro Kono, Japan's Defense Minister, got up and announced that the Japanese government would be halting its plan to deploy a new multi-billion-dollar missile defense system. Tokyo had committed itself to buy the Aegis Ashore...
Your Guide to Surviving A Crisis
. . . Yes, it has been a week of nonstop, wall-to-wall, over-the-top news that is enough to make even the sturdiest of information warriors feel queasy. It's not easy to look over the precipice of panic and not feel some vertigo from the view. It's at times like these...
Your Guide to a World on Fire
I don't know if you've noticed, but the world is on fire right now. From protests and riots to bloodshed and coups d'état, it seems that every corner of the globe is being rocked by an explosion of unrest . . . and no, I'm not talking about the Great Popeyes Chicken...
5 Outrageous New Year’s Predictions
Sick of the same old, same old boring list of predictable, safe New Year's predictions that are so vague they can't possibly come true? (Weaponized narratives, indeed!) Yeah. So am I. So, in the spirit of spicing things up for this post-holiday hangover season, let's...
The Death of SWIFT and the (Engineered) Death of the Dollar
Remember when I told you about "China's SWIFT Alternative and the (Engineered) Death of the Dollar"? Well, now it's Germany's turn to get in on the act. As the Rothschild Financial Times reports: Germany’s foreign minister has called for the creation of a new payments...
Episode 335 – Solutions: Spontaneous Order
When you hear the word "order" do you automatically think of government? What if I were to tell you there’s an entirely different conception of societal order, one that doesn’t revolve around hierarchy but in fact specifically refutes it? Well there is, and it’s...
America, China, and the Battle for the “Indo-Pacific”
Goodbye, Asia-Pacific! Hello, Indo-Pacific? That's right, the old "Asia-Pacific" label is so last decade, guys. It's time to start calling that part of the globe the "Indo-Pacific." Who cares if it's geographically nonsensical? America's military planners and their...
