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Defence / Iran / United States

 by Jaffa Levy

US and Israeli Strikes on Iran Target Senior Leadership; Tehran Vows Retaliation as Missiles Hit Israel and Gulf Bases

In the early hours before dawn, United States and Israeli forces struck deep inside Iran in what Tehran sources describe as an attempt to decapitate the country’s leadership. Explosions tore through areas linked to the supreme leadership and security command in Tehran, and within hours Iran unleashed ballistic missiles and drones toward Israel and US bases across the Gulf, igniting the most dangerous regional confrontation in years and sending shockwaves through global energy markets.

Economics / Europe

 by Jaffa Levy

Europe’s Strategic Reckoning: Capital, Energy and the Cost of Strategic Overextension

Europe’s defence surge is not just a military response. It is a structural reallocation of capital away from productivity and energy competitiveness toward deterrence. As American burden shifting accelerates and energy differentials persist, the real question is whether Europe can finance autonomy without eroding the economic base that sustains it.

Uncategorized

 by Jaffa Levy

Japan’s Taiwan Shock and Sanseito’s Surge Are the Same Story

In July 2025, Sanseito jumped from one seat to fifteen on a Japanese First message. In November 2025, Tokyo’s Taiwan language triggered a sharp response from Beijing. These are not separate dramas. They are the same structural pressure showing up at home and abroad.

Education

 by Jaffa Levy

AI Is Rewriting the Architecture of Schoolin From California Experiments to Beijing Policy

Artificial intelligence is no longer a classroom accessory — it is beginning to restructure schooling itself. From private mastery-based models in the United States to state-mandated AI literacy in China and cautious integration in Russia, education systems are entering a global redesign phase whose consequences remain uncertain.

Economics / China / History / Long Read

 by Jaffa Levy

Why Western Theory Still Struggles to Explain the Chinese Economy

For more than forty years, the Chinese economy has sustained growth, industrial upgrading, and social stability under a system Western economics said could not function. It was not just cheap labour, exports, or repression. It was an institutional invention that fused markets with state power. The uncomfortable question is no longer why the Chinese economy rose, but why prevailing theory still cannot explain it.

Artificial Intelligence (AI) / Britain / Economics

 by Jaffa Levy

AI Is Raising Productivity. Britain’s Economy Is Absorbing the Gains

This is the second article in a series examining why artificial intelligence can raise productivity without raising living standards. While the first piece focused on how AI increases output per hour, this follow-up explains why Britain’s economic structure absorbs those gains instead of translating them into broader prosperity.

Defence / Iran / United States

 by Jaffa Levy

Indicators of Intent: How Converging U.S. Military Posture Around Iran Has Changed the Strategic Equation

The United States has quietly assembled the operational architecture required for sustained air operations against Iran. Refuelling aircraft, carrier positioning, heavy lift throughput and missile defence shifts suggest that feasibility has risen, even if intent remains political.

Artificial Intelligence (AI)

 by Jaffa Levy

The Breakthrough Was Not the Model. It Was the Loop.

Autonomous loop agents are shifting AI from chat to continuous execution. The real transformation is persistence: systems that observe, plan, act, and repeat inside live software environments. This changes productivity first, then security, governance, and infrastructure as autonomy collides with control.

Defence / Britain / Law / Middle East

 by Jaffa Levy

Britain Left Its ISIS Detainees including Shamima Begum in Kurdish Camps. Now Those Camps Are Collapsing

Britain and its allies left thousands of Islamic State detainees in Kurdish run camps as a temporary solution to a politically toxic problem. Now that system is breaking down. As Western governments engage Syria’s new leadership and Kurdish control erodes, the contradiction at the heart of detention by remembering is becoming impossible to ignore.

Defence / Russia / Ukraine

 by Jaffa Levy

Ukraine’s Donbas Army Faces a Choice Between Withdrawal and Collapse

Russia now controls most of Donbas. What remains is a fortified Ukrainian army compressed into Kramatorsk and Sloviansk and sustained by just two vulnerable supply routes. Rather than storming these fortresses, Russian forces are methodically degrading the roads and rail lines that keep them alive. The decisive question is no longer territory, but whether Ukraine withdraws in time.

Artificial Intelligence (AI) / Britain / Technology

 by Jaffa Levy

AI Driven Data Centre Growth Is Colliding with Transformer Shortages and Raising the Risk of Prolonged Electricity Rationing in Britain

AI driven data centre growth and rapid electrification are increasing electricity demand in Britain’s most concentrated corridors at the same time that critical grid components such as high voltage transformers face replacement lead times measured in years. If a major node fails under that pressure, the risk is not permanent blackout but prolonged, managed shortage, and once electricity becomes scheduled and uneven, it becomes political.

Culture / Judaism

 by Anonymous

The Street That Continues

A quiet portrait of Williamsburg’s Satmar community, where Yiddish remains the working language, family life anchors continuity, and tradition is guarded through daily structure rather than slogans.

Defence / Diplomacy / United States

 by Jaffa Levy

The World Is Drifting Toward Multipolarity: Not Remaining Unipolar Because a Leading American Foreign Policy Journal Claims It Is

The international system is no longer frictionless. Industrial constraint in Ukraine, cost exchange asymmetries in the Red Sea, rising United States debt service, China’s manufacturing scale, and energy intensity in artificial intelligence all signal structural change. Multipolarity is not rhetorical aspiration. It is emerging through theatre denial, industrial depth, and fiscal limits, even as some American foreign policy journals insist the world remains unipolar.

Defence / China / Japan

 by Jaffa Levy

Sanae Takaichi’s Taiwan Doctrine Has Escalated Tensions With China

Sanae Takaichi’s decision to describe a Taiwan contingency as a “survival-threatening situation” has pushed Japan–China tensions into legal and economic territory. Beijing answered with export controls, travel pressure, and a post-1945 order narrative anchored in UNGA Resolution 2758. What began as parliamentary language is becoming institutional escalation across doctrine, trade, and history.

Law / Britain

 by Jaffa Levy

The Palestine Action Judgment and the Limits of Proscription Power

The High Court’s Palestine action judgement holds that the Home Secretary acted unlawfully and disproportionately in invoking terrorism proscription powers, yet the order remains in force pending appeal, creating a rare constitutional limbo for police, prosecutors and defendants.

BRICS / Economics / India

 by Jaffa Levy

The Exit Ramp: How Countries Are Reducing Their Dependence on the Dollar

The dollar still dominates global finance, but states are no longer willing to rely on a single set of payment pathways. From instant domestic systems to new cross-border settlement platforms, a parallel financial infrastructure is taking shape — less about replacing the dollar than about reducing dependence on it.

Diplomacy / China

 by Jaffa Levy

The Scholar State in Global Competition: Wang Yi, Chinese Diplomacy and the Civilisational Divide

Chinese diplomacy cannot be understood through the language of ideology alone. Behind Wang Yi’s measured tone and deliberate cadence lies a civilisational grammar shaped by two millennia of scholar-official tradition and moral bureaucracy. Where Western diplomats see negotiation, Beijing performs continuity and legitimacy, a ritual of culture, hierarchy and virtue.

Arctic / China

 by Jaffa Levy

The Arctic Is Becoming the World’s Most Strategic Trade Corridor, and Power Will Belong to Those Who Can Physically Keep It Open

The Arctic is no longer a distant frontier but an emerging economic corridor. As ice recedes and new shipping lanes become viable, the decisive factor will not be legal claims or rhetoric, but capability. Icebreakers, energy equity and logistics infrastructure are redefining strategic balance in the High North, turning mobility into influence and redundancy into leverage.

Artificial Intelligence (AI) / China / United States

 by Jaffa Levy

China’s AI Governance Model vs America’s Frontier Race: Why the Real Battle Is Over Who Can Control Intelligence at Scale

As Washington accelerates frontier AI and tightens chip controls, Beijing is building something different: a state-coordinated system that treats artificial intelligence as national infrastructure. The decisive question is no longer who builds the smartest model, but who can govern intelligence at scale without destabilising labour markets, information systems, and political legitimacy.