Category: World

South America / Venezuela

 by Jaffa Levy

America Returns to Gunboat Power in the Caribbean

In the span of two months, U.S. naval forces have turned the Caribbean and Eastern Pacific into a theatre of undeclared war launching at least fifteen lethal strikes on boats alleged to be drug carriers, leaving dozens dead and entire crews vanished at sea. Washington calls it counternarcotics. Caracas, Beijing and much of Latin America call it a return to gunboat power extrajudicial killings in peacetime waters under the flag of law enforcement.

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. To meet China effectively, one must recognise the scholar state across the table and learn to speak in the register of civilisation, not transaction.

World / Europe

 by Jaffa Levy

Locked Out of Power: The Price of Germany’s Refusal to Work With the AfD

A decade after the Union parties vowed never to work with the AfD, Germany’s political geometry has hardened into paralysis. The exclusion that was meant to contain the right now keeps the left in power and strengthens the very movement it tried to suppress.

World / Europe

 by Jaffa Levy

Flashpoint Poland: The Eastern Flank’s Ticking Clock

Poland has become NATO’s most anxious frontier a country caught between vigilance and hysteria. A string of drone and airspace incidents along the eastern flank has pushed the alliance toward a posture where accidents can look like acts of war. As Warsaw re-arms and Europe rehearses deterrence, President Karol Nawrocki faces a narrowing choice: keep Poland a shield, or watch it become the spark.

Opinion / World

 by Jaffa Levy

From Weimar to Brussels: How the West Replaced Democracy with Control

The spectre of the 1930s has returned not through mobs or uniforms, but through manufactured crisis and political decrees. Europe’s political elites, convinced they defend democracy, are reproducing its decay. The West’s has birthed a bureaucratic form of fascism, administered by committees controlled by global finance and Oligarchs controlling online platforms.

World / China

 by Jaffa Levy

China high speed rail wheels the real story of self reliance

The real story is industrial rather than conspiratorial. Faced with the vulnerability of foreign supply, China spent the past decade mastering the metallurgy, forging and testing of high speed rail wheels.

Diplomacy / China / World

 by Jaffa Levy

New Chinese Embassy London and Secret Spy Tunnels

Britain’s argument over China’s new embassy has become a mirror held up to its own insecurities. Commentators and newspapers now claim that Beijing plans to build spy rooms and tunnels under London to intercept...

Iran / World

 by Jaffa Levy

Iran’s Su-35 Gamble: From MiG-29 Lifeline to High-Value Bet on Russian Arms

Leaked Russian export tables suggest Tehran has signed a €6 billion deal for 48 Su-35 fighters, with component deliveries set for 2024–26 and aircraft in 2026–28. Meanwhile, Moscow quietly rushed frontline MiG-29s to Iran as a stopgap. If real, the pact deepens Tehran’s strategic dependence on Russia — and complicates the balance of power across the Middle East.

World / Palestine

 by Jaffa Levy

The Reconstruction of Gaza: Who Pays?

Each time Gaza is reduced to rubble, the same cycle repeats: Israel destroys, donors rebuild, and the bill lands on the world’s desk. From the airport it bombed to the power plant it crippled, the price of reconstruction—now exceeding $50 billion—will again be paid by everyone except the perpetrator.

World / Palestine

 by Jaffa Levy

Dughmush and Hamas clash in a Frenzy of Retribution

Hours after the ceasefire, Gaza City saw fierce fighting between Hamas units and the Dughmush clan. At least twenty-seven people were reported killed, including a prominent local journalist, exposing the power struggle now shaping post-war Gaza.

World / Defence / Israel

 by Jaffa Levy

The Next War: Why Israel May Strike Iran Before Winter.

Israel faces a narrowing window for war with Iran as U.S. naval forces and refuelling tankers reposition across the Middle East. With the USS Gerald R. Ford carrier group on station and regional skies soon to close with winter weather, pressure is building on Tel Aviv to decide whether to strike now or stand down until spring.

World / Russia

 by Jaffa Levy

Putin’s Red Light Strategy: How Oreshnik and Tomahawk Define the New Architecture of Escalation

At Valdai, Vladimir Putin’s joke about “Oreshnik” masked a serious message. Russia and the United States are both trapped in an era where escalation depends on infrastructure, not intent. Every modern weapon now travels with its own network of satellites, planners, and launchers — and building that network is the new act of war.

World / Europe

 by Jaffa Levy

The End of the Umbrella: Europe’s Lesson in Dependency

For eight decades Europe nestled under America’s triple canopy, military, technological, psychological. It was a seductive bargain. Washington’s shield let Europe skimp on tanks, pour billions into cradle to grave welfare, and sermonize about liberal values without the gritty cost of standing alone. The Ukraine war tore that illusion to shreds.

Burkina Faso / Africa / World

 by Jaffa Levy

Aid, Espionage, and Extraction: The Hidden Machinery That Looted Burkina Faso

Burkina Faso’s recent arrests of foreign aid workers are not an outburst of paranoia but the culmination of decades of exploitation disguised as partnership. For generations, Western governments, mining conglomerates, and their affiliated NGOs extracted the country’s wealth—first its gold, now its data—under the language of development. What the world calls repression in Ouagadougou may instead be the long-delayed assertion of a people’s right to control their own resources and their own narrative.

World / Britain

 by Jaffa Levy

The Tiger That Wasn’t There: A Story of Media and the Ghosts of Empire

When a leading London broadsheet claimed that North Koreans were “hunting tigers for food,” it exposed more than journalistic sloppiness. It revealed the desperation of Britain’s old media class to preserve a moral hierarchy that no longer exists. This essay traces how a false story about famine and wildlife became a metaphor for imperial nostalgia — and why the West’s fading press can no longer distinguish narrative from truth.

World / Britain / Germany / United States

 by Jaffa Levy

 New Nationalism: From Dresden to Doncaster to Dallas

Populist energy has moved from the street into the state. Alice Weidel in Germany and Nigel Farage in Britain are converting discontent into parliamentary power, while Tommy Robinson’s crowds still march without machinery. The same sentiment frustration with distant rule and collapsing trust now runs from Saxony to small-town England and deep into the American South.

World / United States

 by Jaffa Levy

The New Right’s Youth Rebellion: Inside the America First Generation

A new generation of conservatives is rewriting the meaning of “America First.” Online and unafraid to challenge their elders, they question the cost of foreign entanglements — including billions in U.S. aid to Israel — and turn campus debates into a fiscal revolt. From Steve Bannon to Tucker Carlson, Candace Owens, and Nick Fuentes’s Groyper movement, the young right is united less by ideology than by arithmetic: America’s solvency before its crusades

World / Argentina / South America

 by Jaffa Levy

Milei’s Malvinas Gambit and Britain’s Test of Resolve

At the United Nations General Assembly in September 2025, Argentina’s President Javier Milei revived his country’s claim over the Falkland Islands at a moment when Britain looks distracted abroad and divided at home.

World / China

 by Jaffa Levy

Born as a weapon in the new Cold War, America’s chip blockade has become the forge of China’s self-reliance.

The United States sought to cripple China’s semiconductor sector with sweeping export bans.
Instead, the embargo triggered an unprecedented mobilization across China’s industry, universities, and state planners. Within three years, Beijing had rebuilt its chip ecosystem, advanced its AI capacity, and turned an intended chokehold into the architecture of technological self-reliance.

World / China

 by Jaffa Levy

China’s Vision of a Multipolar World: A Country of Struggles and Strategies

In capitals from Addis Ababa to Brasília, diplomats speak of Chinese loans and infrastructure, of classrooms where Mandarin now competes with English. In Delhi, Jakarta, and Johannesburg, scholars debate whether China’s approach — state-led, disciplined, outward-looking — offers a workable alternative to the American order that has framed global politics since 1945.