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14 January 2026 Substantiating the Hard Way Doctrine While my article, “The Easy Way or the Hard Way,” outlines the doctrinal framework behind the American ultimatum regarding Greenland, this brief provides the crucial intelligence-based validation for that doctrine. The purpose of this brief is to analyse the Danish Defence
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13 January 2026 A Promise That Is Also a Warning In the volatile crucible of a country convulsed by protest, the words of world leaders carry extraordinary weight. As millions of Iranians take to the streets in a country-wide uprising against the Islamic Republic, every statement from abroad is
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11 January 2026 “I’m not talking about money for Greenland yet. I might talk about that. But right now, we are going to do something on Greenland, whether they like it not, because if we don’t do it, Russia or China will take over Greenland, and we’re
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10 January 2026 Sun Tzu in Washington? This is my fourth article on this journey (see: 1, 2, and 3 ), and by now one has to resist the lazy temptation to treat each new episode—an NSS here, a coup there, a summit with oil executives somewhere else—as if
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9 January 2026 This is my third article on this journey (see here and here), and the pattern by now is too familiar to be accidental: higher education, once the training ground for argument, has begun to behave like a church that has mislaid its theology and compensated by inventing
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9 January 2026 I framtiden riskerar ideologi styra evidensen och morgondagens beslutsfattare blir oförmögna till kritisk reflektion och kausalt tänkande. Khaled Salih Publicerad 2026-01-09 I en tid då högre utbildning förväntas vara en bastion för kritiskt tänkande och rigorös sanningssökande har Högskolan i Skövde blivit ett alarmerande exempel
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8 January 2026 Human Nature at the Knife’s Edge This is my third article on this journey, and by now the reader will have noticed that the Rushdie affair stubbornly refuses to stay put inside any single category—crime report, culture war, theological tantrum, or “security incident”—because it
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7 January 2026 The Treason of the Clerks We are gathered here to witness a coroner’s inquest into a suspicious death—not of a person, but of the very concept of objective truth within the Swedish academy. The text upon the slab is a Master’s thesis by one
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4 January 2026 Caracas, and the End of Diplomatic Theatre There are moments in international politics when the mask does not merely slip—it is ripped off with a theatrical flourish and held aloft like a trophy. We are told, endlessly, that strategy documents are abstractions: cautious, bureaucratic exercises in
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1 January 2026 “Our Word or No Word” The attempted murder of Salman Rushdie was not an aberration, nor was it an impulsive excess committed by a lone fanatic who briefly lost his way. It was the predictable, long-delayed execution of an idea—a directive that had been issued,
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29 December 2025 A Wish and a Prophecy “A total war has become inevitable. We all consider it necessary. We want it. At the resistance axis, the Palestinian people, and our nation, we want this total war. … We will certainly defeat them. … [W]e are convinced that if a total