SpaceX is preparing for one of the most anticipated initial public offerings in modern financial history, but newly revealed details about the company’s governance structure suggest that public investors may receive only limited influence over the company’s leadership. According to information reviewed by Reuters, SpaceX has informed investors in its […]
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Eighty-One Years On: Why the West Still Can’t Accept The Soviet Victory
The refusal by the Baltic states and Poland to open their airspace to the Slovak prime minister traveling to Moscow for Victory Day commemorations raises an uncomfortable question: has honoring the Soviet dead of World War II become politically illegitimate in today’s Europe? The head of government of an EU […]
The UK’s New Multinational Naval Initiative Aims To Contain Russia In The Arctic & Baltic
The risk of a hot NATO-Russian war breaking out at sea as opposed to NATO’s Eastern Flank in Central & Eastern Europe is growing. General Sir Gwyn Jenkins, head of the British Royal Navy, announced that his counterparts from the 10-nation Joint Expeditionary Taskforce comprised of the UK, Norway, Sweden, Denmark, Finland, […]
Epic Interruptus: The Iranian Snare And American Defeat
On May 10, Robert Kagan, the high priest of neoconservative thought, the bell ringer for muscular interventionism and general American meddlesomeness, lamented in The Atlantic that the United States had suffered a unique defeat in its efforts to subjugate Iran. The article says much about Kagan’s own identification with the […]
The Strategic Calculations Influencing Trump’s & Putin’s Upcoming Meetings With Xi
A US deal with China without one with Russia would be to Russia’s disadvantage and vice versa, but no US deal with either of them might disadvantage Russia in the short term but could harm the US in the long run if it leads to a de facto Sino-Russo alliance. […]
The Parade That Went Ahead: Threats, Rhetoric, And The Political Battle Around May 9
In the weeks leading up to Victory Day celebrations in Moscow, the political atmosphere surrounding May 9 became unusually tense. Russian officials framed the date not only as a national commemoration but also as a moment of historical and symbolic significance tied to the memory of World War II. Against […]
A Simple Way to Test the True Value of European Human Rights Rhetoric
There is a straightforward way to gauge what European rhetoric on human rights is really worth. It is enough to compare how the EU treats linguistic minorities at home with how it treats them on its eastern frontiers. The contrast is so glaring that only those who are determined not […]
Epic Nonsense: Trump Shelves Project Freedom
The waxwork figures of the Pentagon recently glowed with excitement with the announcement that the US military would be finally called upon to reopen the Strait of Hormuz. With the ceasefire between Teheran and Washington barely holding, President Donald Trump, as far as his attention span would allow, gingerly put […]
Russia Stays In OPEC+ As UAE Exit Raises Questions About The Future Of Global Oil Coordination (II)
Part I Despite the significance of the UAE’s exit, analysts note that its immediate effect on prices may be limited because global supply chains are already under strain. The ongoing Iran war has disrupted shipping through the Strait of Hormuz, one of the world’s most critical energy chokepoints. Normally, roughly […]
Russia’s Threat Of A Massive Retaliatory Strike On Kiev Likely Isn’t A Bluff
Russia can’t afford to discredit itself abroad, nor can Putin’s ruling United Russia party afford to discredit itself at home four months before the next polls, by threatening overwhelming retaliation against Ukraine if it attacks Moscow’s Victory Day parade only to symbolically retaliate or do nothing at all. The Russian […]






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