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THE CABLE WASN'T CUT
At 03:17 the cable failed. At 03:19 it came back. Nobody noticed.
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The Chokepoint Paradox
The dependencies that made globalisation work are becoming instruments of power. But trying to eliminate them may be just as dangerous.
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The Chokepoint Paradox
The dependencies that made globalisation work are becoming instruments of power. But trying to eliminate them may be just as dangerous.
20 min readDeterrence Has a Replenishment Rate
Whether America’s Patriot stocks in Europe are truly “beyond critical” is the argument everyone is having this week. It is the wrong argument.
16 min readThe End of Strategic Slack
For thirty years, Western power rested on a quiet assumption: whatever happened, there would be something left in reserve. This week, in three different places at once, that assumption started to look less like a fact and more like a bet.
13 min readFour Signals. One Pattern.
Four stories that seemed to share nothing kept describing the same movement underneath: power is becoming more networked, more contested and more consequential — and it is moving through the ordinary machinery of a connected world, not around it.
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