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Closing the Strait of Hormuz: The Card Iran Holds — and What Holding It Cost
And there is no prediction on who’s winning this “Card Game,” is it?
How One Woman Compels the Kremlin to Choose Between Peace and Financial Collapse
Putin’s Toughest Economic Opponent Lives Inside the Kremlin
The Cost of War: Hunting Mice with an Elephant
“An elephant which kills a rat is not a hero.” — How Iran’s asymmetric cost trap turned America’s strategic power into a financial liability.
A European Covenant Draft for Peace in Ukraine
A complementary framework for long-term stability
Empire Thinking on Greenland
Why strategic access is sufficient — and why ownership rhetoric persists
Pokrovsk: Logistics, Pressure and the Geometry of the Eastern Front
Pokrovsk has become the most stressed point on the eastern Ukrainian front.
Why Ukraine Cannot Lose This War
And why Russia, in a deeper sense, already did
24 Hours in Tbilisi and Mtshketa
Citadel views, sulfur steam, silent prayers — and a capital caught between memory and movement.
Events that led to the war in Ukraine – a timeline
A 1.000 Years Struggle for An Autonomous National Identity.
Picturing the Past – Postponed Peace in Transnistria
A view inside, in 2010. It’s mainly Smirnov, Sheriff and Medvedev that you see
Event Timeline
Convention of Peking
The Convention of Peking ended the Second Opium War and ceded the Kowloon Peninsula south of Boundary Street to Britain.
Second Opium War
The Second Opium War expanded Western military pressure on Qing China, resulting in deeper treaty concessions, legalized opium trade, and intensified foreign presence in imperial affairs.
First Opium War
In June 1839, Chinese official Lin Zexu ordered the destruction of British opium stockpiles in Canton, sparking the First Opium War.
Treaty of Nanking Signed
The Treaty of Nanking ended the First Opium War and ceded Hong Kong Island to Britain, formalizing its colonial status.
Collapse of the Soviet Union – The End of an Empire
A red flag lowered, a new world born. The collapse of the Soviet Union ended the Cold War and reshaped the global order.
Budapest Memorandum – Ukraine’s Nuclear Gamble
In 1994, Ukraine surrendered the world’s third-largest nuclear arsenal in exchange for security assurances. The Budapest Memorandum was a milestone in post-Soviet diplomacy – and later, a haunting example of broken promises.
Battle for Pokrovsk
Pokrovsk has become the central pressure point on the eastern front. Russian forces apply sustained pressure on the city’s flanks under foggy, drone-limiting conditions, while Ukraine holds a shrinking but functional logistics hub essential to the defence of Donetsk.
The Orange Revolution – Ukraine’s Peaceful Uprising
In late 2004, tens of thousands of Ukrainians filled the streets of Kyiv to protest a rigged presidential election. The Orange Revolution marked a turning point in Ukraine’s democratic identity and exposed the geopolitical tug-of-war between Russia and the West.
