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Cultural Contestation

Struggle over values and narratives that bind or fracture societies. Value conflicts creating market uncertainty, impacting consumer sentiment and sector-specific investments.

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Sovereignty or Subversion: Ethnicity is Not the Fault Line

Feb 19, 2026

Multiculturalism is not neutral. It is a systems design choice with sovereignty consequences.

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Ideology as Psychological Infrastructure: How Belief Multiplies Force

Feb 17, 2026

Material strength mobilises armies. Ideology mobilises commitment.

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The Poland's Strategic Identity: Not Post-Imperial, but Post-Partition Doctrine

Jan 29, 2026

Defence credibility flows from historical clarity, not imperial nostalgia.

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The EU and the Death of the Nation-State: Technocracy as Strategic Design

Jan 13, 2026

Europe’s integration model reveals a deeper contest: sovereignty vs supranational control and the capitalist systems willing to bet on the latter.

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Transatlantic Strain: NATO's Cohesion Test and the Defense‐Migration Nexus

Jan 9, 2026

2026 will reveal whether shared security can endure diverging domestic pressures and burden‐sharing tensions.

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Russia's Public Mood Shift on Ukraine: War Fatigue Meets Strategic Fracture

Jan 7, 2026

ESA’s 2025 ministerial reshapes the balance of space power as Warsaw and Madrid vault into the top tier of contributors, setting distinct strategic courses: one defense-oriented, the other industry-focused.

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"Suicidal Empathy": When Compassion Becomes a Strategic Vulnerability

Dec 25, 2025

An argued shift from empathy as virtue to empathy as weakness and a warning about moral risk in societies and institutions.

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Russia’s Policing Collapse: Domestic Control Becomes Strategic Liability

Nov 27, 2025

Putin’s overstretched regime now faces internal erosion, not just external resistance.

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