From Tax Haven to War Banker: Luxembourg’s Role in Europe’s Military Buildup
At the NATO summit in Ankara Luxembourg positioned itself as one of the alliance’s most vocal advocates for accelerated European rearmament.
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Reformed academic writing about hybrid warfare and The Hegemon's Last Stand. Usually from my balcony in Hong Kong.
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Last February, I publicly questioned the existence of Jianwei Xun, an author who published a best-selling, critically acclaimed book titled Hypnocracy: Trump, Musk and the New Architecture of Reality. On his website and on academia.org — the original version of his profile can now be found only on Internet Archive — he claimed to be a Hong Kong-born media philosopher, a Research Fellow at the…
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It was a pleasure to be interviewed by Sonja Van den Ende, a fellow writer for Strategic Culture.
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It was a pleasure to be interviewed by Sonja Van den Ende, a fellow writer for Strategic Culture.