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?
Defense
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How One Woman Compels the Kremlin to Choose Between Peace and Financial Collapse
Putin's Toughest Economic Opponent Lives Inside the Kremlin
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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.
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A European Covenant Draft for Peace in Ukraine
A complementary framework for long-term stability
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Pokrovsk: Logistics, Pressure and the Geometry of the Eastern Front
Pokrovsk has become the most stressed point on the eastern Ukrainian front.
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Why Ukraine Cannot Lose This War
And why Russia, in a deeper sense, already did
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Events that led to the war in Ukraine – a timeline
A 1.000 Years Struggle for An Autonomous National Identity.
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Picturing the Past – Postponed Peace in Transnistria
A view inside, in 2010. It’s mainly Smirnov, Sheriff and Medvedev that you see
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Empire Logic: How Russia Uses Borders, Identity, and Delay
Russia does not need to occupy a country to control it. It only needs to prevent resolution. From Transnistria to Crimea, from narrative warfare to financial systems, Empire Logic shows how modern power is held — not through conquest, but through structural denial.
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Return to Babel: Language, Identity, and Belonging
How identity is filtered — not by law, but by design - and what it means to belong
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Russia’s War Machine: How It Fights Without Winning
As negotiations flicker in the background of a grinding war, Russia’s ability to sustain its military effort in Ukraine depends on a fragile web of foreign supply, internal mobilization, and retrofitted Soviet stockpiles. This report examines the current state of Russia’s armed forces in Q2 2025, revealing a system stretched but still operational — and why that matters.
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The Sumy Attack: Beyond Violence, Towards Understanding the Message
On Palm Sunday, Russia attacked the Ukrainian city of Sumy in an act that went beyond war — a message of hatred that struck civilians and sacred meaning alike.
