Japan at a crossroads: give Thatcher a solid mandate or risk irrelevance
The Asian country is not just electing a Parliament: it is deciding what kind of power it wants to be in an increasingly dangerous world, and its consolidation as a liberal democracy.
GEOPOLITICS REPORT
The events of February 6, 2026, encapsulate, as if through a prism, the major tensions of the international system: a terrorist Iran forced to negotiate in Oman out of sheer fear of American power; a Russia attempting to shield its illegal annexations while sitting in Abu Dhabi discussing “peace”; a nuclear arms control architecture teetering on the brink of collapse with the expiration of New START
GEOPOLITICS REPORT
The last 24 hours have solidified a landscape that is not merely volatile, but profoundly unsettling due to its multicausal nature and its capacity for self-reinforcing feedback.
GEOPOLITICS REPORT
The past 24 hours have brought an unusual concatenation of events with the potential to reconfigure the balance of power in four simultaneous geopolitical theaters: the Middle East, Latin America, Western Europe, and Southeast Asia.
GEOPOLITICS REPORT
The last 24 hours have solidified a prevailing pattern: Washington is using trade, tariffs, and energy as instruments of strategic pressure
GEOPOLITICS REPORT
The events of the past 24 hours confirm a world in “permanent friction mode,” where the combination of open warfare, economic warfare, and internal pressures is silently reshaping the balance of power.