Jacob Childress

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  • Aug 10, 2026
    Over the past eighteen months, nearly every condition analysts have long said would erode the dollar's dominance arrived at once. War broke out in the Persian Gulf. The Strait of...
  • Aug 6, 2026
    China's Central Military Commission normally seats seven men. It currently seats two. On January 24th, General Zhang Youxia, the senior vice chairman and the most powerful uniformed...
  • Aug 3, 2026
    On March 4th, Iran declared the Strait of Hormuz closed. Not threatened, not contested, closed. The Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps issued warnings over VHF radio telling vessels...
  • Jul 17, 2026
    In the fields outside Donetsk, Russian soldiers have started riding into battle on horseback. Not to move supplies, though they are using donkeys and camels for that. To assault...
  • Jul 14, 2026
    Peter Zeihan is not actually an optimist or a pessimist. He is a geopolitical strategist who has spent the better part of three decades arguing that geography, demographics, and...
  • Jul 6, 2026
    On June 23, the United States Senate passed a war powers resolution directing the president to remove American forces from hostilities against Iran. The vote was 50 to 48. Four...
  • Jun 25, 2026
    On June 19th, Cuba's National Assembly unanimously approved 176 measures that privatize a vast swath of its socialist economy, the single largest change to the Cuban model since...