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The Two Vacuums: Who’s Really Replacing China in Africa
On September 22, 2026, Russia's Africa Corps fired a Ukraine-war-model Molniya kamikaze drone at al-Qaeda-linked fighters besieging its position near Dioura, in Mali's Mopti...
Reciprocity, Selectively Applied: The Contradiction at the Center of the Trump and Xi Summit
When Xi Jinping's plane touches down at Joint Base Andrews on Wednesday, he arrives to a reception built for maximum contrast with his last...
The Blackout That Sparked a 55-Nation Satellite Arms Race
At a space-security summit in Paris this month, Novaspace chief executive Pacôme Révillon put a number on something most of the room already suspected:...
AI’s Power Bill Is About to Become a Geopolitical Story, Not Just a Utility One
This summer the Nuclear Regulatory Commission concluded that restarting Three Mile Island's Unit 1 — the plant synonymous with nuclear disaster since 1979 —...
UK-EU Reset: Is Financial Decoupling and Energy Security Undermining the New Partnership?
Three years after Brexit, the UK-EU relationship is not converging. Financial services are diverging deliberately, defense integration is off limits, and energy markets face...
Söder’s Loyalty to Merz Is Real. It’s Also Free
Within days of the CDU's worst-ever state election result, CSU leader Markus Söder ruled out any move against Chancellor Friedrich Merz "under no circumstances,"...
The Most Dangerous Number in Germany’s Sunday Votes Isn’t the AfD’s
In Mecklenburg-Vorpommern, incumbent SPD premier Manuela Schwesig leads her AfD challenger, Leif-Erik Holm, 60% to 25% in head-to-head polling. It is not close. And...
The Real Story Behind Canada’s EU Deal Isn’t Membership. It’s Minerals
Three weeks before today's ceremony in Strasbourg, American negotiators put a specific demand on the table in Ottawa: a right of first refusal on...
France Offered Europe a Nuclear Umbrella. Nobody Has Checked What’s Actually Under It
When Emmanuel Macron stepped up at the Île Longue submarine base on 2 March 2026, he was not simply updating French defense doctrine. He...
Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland Signed an Independence Pact. Westminster Still Holds Every Legal Card
The September 14 Cardiff memorandum is a coordinated pressure campaign timed to a uniquely weak moment for the union's defenders — a fragile, freshly...