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14 February 206 Secretary of State Marco Rubio delivering a speech at MSC 2026 “But the euphoria of this triumph led us to a dangerous delusion. That we had entered, quote, ‘the end of history.’ ... That the rules-based global order, an overused term, would now replace the national interest.
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13 February 2026 The Architecture of Invisible Power. The Bernays Protocol is a mandatory briefing for anyone seeking to understand the invisible architecture of modern power. My analysis shines historical light on the comfortable myths surrounding public relations to reveal the military-grade psychological warfare lying beneath. By examining how
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11 February 2026 On February 10, 2026, the House Foreign Affairs Committee held a 3.5+ hour hearing—“Syria at a Crossroads: U.S. Policy Challenges Post-Assad”—to debate whether Washington’s current Syria posture is stabilizing a post-Assad landscape or simply managing an exit ramp. The witness
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11 February 2026 The Paradox of Israeli Power4 February 2026Khaled SalihKhaled Salih Why This Update Now The 11 February version is necessary because it shifts the essay from a general argument about regional fear, Israeli overmatch, and self-inflicted political “terminal errors” into a more operational blueprint for a fast-
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9 February 2026 Based on my “The Blind Lighthouse,” analysed through the framework of Angus Fletcher. Sweden has long sold itself—first to the world and then, more dangerously, to itself—as a kind of moral lighthouse: a clean, rational beam sweeping the dark sea of history, warning the benighted
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8 February 2026 The Three-Limbed Leviathan The most successful con in contemporary public life is the idea that power lives in separate drawers. Economics is for “markets,” finance is for “experts,” and the military is for solemn speeches and distant deserts. This is the polite fiction: that a major
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7 February 2026 The Return of Fear as Strategy One of the more tiresome superstitions of our age is the notion that history ended in 1991 and that all who still speak its language must be either nostalgic, paranoid, or—worst of all—unfashionable. Yet the world has been busily
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6 February 2026 A 170-year-old doctrine, the “Lord Palmerston Playbook,” is presented here as the strategic template behind modern irregular warfare: shifting from overt conquest to the internal destabilisation of rival states in the name of preserving a global “balance of power” that keeps London’s financial center
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5 February 2026 “The mistake made by the industrialized and developed world is we all sort of fell in love with the design of these things, but forgot that in order to design something you have to be able to build it... Today it’s heavily concentrated in the hands
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4 February 2026 Israel’s Supreme Power—and Talent for Self-Inflicted Injuries There is a particular kind of Western bedtime story—peddled by diplomats, swallowed by pundits, and repeated by the incurably well-meaning—which claims that the Middle East is a region waiting to be “stabilised,” as though
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2 February 2026 When Kindness Becomes Self-Deception This article is a continuation of our series on the Muslim Brothers—their doctrine of political patience, their genius for institutional mimicry, and their habit of advancing not by open conquest but by moral insinuation. If earlier instalments established the Brothers as
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30 January 2026 There are few frauds more profitable—or more intellectually lazy—than the modern habit of taking a serious issue and turning it into an all-purpose gag. “Islamophobia” began life as a clumsy label for genuine prejudice; it has since been refined into a fortified accusation whose