Tracking the World, One Axis at a Time
A dedicated archive of my short-form commentary—observations, opinions, and quick takes shared in real time.
The Donbas remains the hardest territorial question in any potential Russia Ukraine peace settlement. The region, broadly comprising Donetsk and Luhansk, has been at the centre of the conflict since…
According to my first hand experience of the emerging pole of the so called multipolar world order, I have found this new pole very interesting, but not necessarily for the…
The European Union is increasingly positioning itself against the commercialisation of Arctic shipping even as China and Russia accelerate their joint push to turn the Northern Sea Route into a…
In a rare and tightly held diplomatic move, CIA Director John Ratcliffe traveled to Moscow on August 26, 2026, marking the first known visit by a U.S. intelligence chief to…
For more than three decades, the political map of West Asia rested on an assumption that appeared almost unquestionable: the United States possessed the military power to shape the regional…
Saudi Arabia’s decision to formally activate a multinational maritime defence coalition in the Red Sea and Gulf of Aden marks an important development in the changing security architecture of West…
India is entering one of the most consequential phases of its foreign policy in recent years. What appears on the surface to be a dispute over a trade agreement with…
The White House gathering of executives from Meta, Anthropic, OpenAI, and Google represents a defining moment in American artificial intelligence policy. What began as a determined return to market driven…
For years, Western defense analysts watched the development of China’s maritime strike capabilities through the lens of capital ships. When Beijing unveiled its YJ-20 hypersonic anti-ship ballistic missile, Western military…
As foreign ministers and senior diplomats from across the Indo Pacific converge on Manila for the 59th annual meetings of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations, the Philippine capital has…