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May 24, 2026, 12:35 AM

A 100-Year Territorial Settlement for Ukraine?

Russia retains occupied territory for a century, then returns it to Ukraine I once met Chris Patten, the last British governor of Hong Kong, at my workplace in London’s Covent Garden. After a brief and warm exchange, I asked if...

May 20, 2026, 8:20 PM

As Washington, Beijing, Moscow, Tehran and Jerusalem Converge, Wars May End

Image: Xi Jinping and Vladimir Putin during talks in Beijing. Photo: AP.

With the conclusion of President Trump’s visit to China and his sudden announcement on Monday, May 18, postponing the planned military strike, signs are growing that a broader global arrangement may be taking shape — one in which the...

May 10, 2026, 3:53 PM

Europe Was Born When Evil Was Defeated, Not Invited to the Table

Europe Day is the story of a continent whose wars turned destruction into order, enmity into partnership, and coal and steel into peace. That is why it is dangerous: its beauty tempts us to forget that beneath the open...

Apr 11, 2026, 5:31 PM

Orban’s Hungary Votes Under Moscow and Ankara’s Shadow, Tomorrow May End Him

Hungary votes tomorrow, but the outcome may already be set. Orban did not just reshape politics, he built a system that answers outward. Moscow provides leverage. Ankara gains entry. The method tested in Washington now operates where resistance is...

Mar 20, 2026, 12:53 PM

Collateralized Suicide at Scale

Collateralized Suicide at Scale: A chain reaction of irreversible decisions, where systemic trajectories sweep actors and bystanders alike into consequences they cannot escape. Image © Ivan Bassov, 2026. Licensed under CC BY 4.0.

Understanding the Structural Logic of Irreversible Death Trajectories I introduced the concept of Collateralized Suicide in Collateralized Suicide and MH370 and the Logic of Collateralized Suicide to describe a specific kind of act: one in which an individual embeds their...

Jose Lev Alvarez Gomez

Feb 8, 2026, 3:40 AM

The Silence of Empires Is a Negotiation

Putin and Xi are not quiet because they are weak. They are quiet because they are negotiating—with time, with space, and with American ambition. Silence, in great-power politics, is rarely absent. It is consent with conditions. Washington’s recent freedom of...

Jose Lev Alvarez Gomez

Feb 3, 2026, 4:30 AM

Europe’s Bluff Will Collapse Without America

Europe’s outrage over Greenland is not about principles—it is about panic. When the United States treats the Arctic as a strategic theater—shipping lanes, rare earths, missile defense—European elites answer with sanctimony because they lack leverage. This moral theater is...

Jose Lev Alvarez Gomez

Jan 11, 2026, 9:50 AM

‘Trumproe’: World Order Is Officially Dead

Venezuela’s breakdown was not accidental but systemic. Cuban intelligence embedded the regime’s control architecture, cartel economics underwrote its finances, and Nicolás Maduro—dictator and leader of the Cartel de los Soles—functioned as the central figure of the system. He was...

Jose Lev Alvarez Gomez

Jan 5, 2026, 6:04 AM

Mamdani’s Socialism: A Kremlin Punchline

History has a brutal sense of irony, and last week it surfaced in a tweet from Kirill Dmitriev, a Kremlin power broker close to Vladimir Putin. Addressing New York politician Zohran Mamdani, Dmitriev delivered a line that should have...

Whimsy Anderson

Jan 4, 2026, 4:54 AM

In The Shadow of October 7: Unmasking Putin’s Role

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Dear Israel, Putin is not your friend. Putin was never your friend. He is a Jew-hating thug, living in a particular part of the world with a long history of Jew-hating thugs. And let’s face facts, Putin is a...

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