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Explore the intricacies of global politics, diplomacy, and international affairs. Here are my thoughts and analyses on international relations.

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WAIC 2026: Shanghai’s Agentic AI Safety Forum

A close read of Concordia AI's Shanghai forum — where Bengio, Gill, and China's leading safety researchers mapped agentic AI's...

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The New Colonisers: How the Digital Nomad Economy Is Recolonising the Global South

Usually I don’t watch much YouTube these days, and I’m highly cautious and skeptical of what I do watch online....

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Four Objectives, Zero Wins: Mearsheimer’s Reckoning With America’s Iran War

John Mearsheimer's July 2026 assessment of the Iran war — four failed objectives, a lost Strait of Hormuz, a fracturing...

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When Algorithms Go to War: Inside the New Military-AI-Industrial Complex

A research analysis of the PAX and Privacy International report — from a Geneva conference room to the boardrooms of...

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The Algorithm’s Kill Chain: The Future of Military AI

As world leaders gathered in Geneva for the June 2026 Informal Exchange on AI in the Military Domain, a dark...

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Inside the UN Playbook for Algorithmic Warfare

The speed of military AI is outstripping international law. The UNIDIR Scenario Compendium offers a practical blueprint for the era...

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The Ghost in the Code: Why Autonomous Weapons Defy Human Law

The rise of Autonomous Weapons Systems (AWS) marks a seismic shift to "algorithmic warfare." When machines independently decide who lives...

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The Illusion of Affordability: Why We Are Rich in Distractions and Poor in Sovereignty

An unvarnished analysis of price divergence over the last 20 years based on Mark J. Perry's Chart of the Century....

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The Global Shell Game: What “Meaningful Human Control” Actually Means—and Why No One Agrees

The battle for the future of global security is currently being waged over a single phrase: "meaningful human control". Explore...

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The Consensus Trap: How Five Nations Quietly Derailed the Global Ban on Killer Robots

For over a decade, the international community has tried to regulate Lethal Autonomous Weapons Systems (LAWS). Explore how a small...

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The Algorithmic Battlefield: 5 Takeaways from the Silent Revolution in Warfare

As military powers integrate systems like Palantir and Project Nimbus into a "Digital Targeting Web," human control over lethal force...

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The Digital Dragnet: 4 Surprising Ways the U.S. Immigration System Became a Fully Automated Machine

The U.S. immigration system has shifted from judicial review to a fully automated machine. Explore four surprising ways digital dragnets,...