A Timeline of Western Decline
Decades of comfortable choices and the compounding cost of the path of least resistance - 1945-2026.
Waronomics
Waronomics is an Eastern European geopolitical analysis publication for the English-speaking world. I bring Balkan candor to the economics of conflict, the propaganda that sustains it, and the leadership failures that enable it.
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The Age of Abundance is Over
The post-Cold War deal is over, and scarcity is coming to reverse-engineer everything cheap energy built.
The REAL 1%
Corruption and nepotism have been the default setting for human nature, until a handful of societies adopted constitutional democracies with meritocratic systems and became the exception.
The Politics of the Impossible: Debunking Populism
Populism promises to stop migration, stop inflation, abolish bureaucracy, and reverse globalisation. What can it actually deliver? None.
The Imperfect Empire
America at 250: a comparative analysis on America, Russia, China, and the moral difference between flawed superpower and organised tyranny.
Reflections on Brexit
The Eastern European connection which contributed to the exit of the United Kingdom from the EU.
The Death of the Economy-as-a-Service
The West spent decades deciding that making things was someone else's game. War, interest rates, energy insecurity, demographics, and broken supply chains are now asking for the bill.
The Population Panic
Both the overpopulation and the collapse doomers make the same mistake - thinking in statics instead of dynamics. The world is not linear, and history has run this cycle before.
All Under Heaven
China's backing of Russia's war in Ukraine is just one piece on the Go board. For decades, they quietly built the architecture to make the rest of us dependent on its mercy.
Russia's Last War
12 years of war crimes and failed military objectives.