Premium
Every Premium story Crosswise has covered, in one place.
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 read
Deterrence 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 read
The 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 read
When The Arctic Option Becomes The Only Option
This is a work of narrative intelligence, not a prediction and not advice. It combines verified starting conditions, stated assumptions, analytical inference and fictional narrative to walk a plausible causal pathway from a familiar shock to an unfamiliar dependency.
17 min read
Four 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.
13 min read