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Defence / Russia

 by Jaffa Levy

Russia’s Generals Declare the Tank Dead: Inside Moscow’s Vision of the Digital Battlefield

Russia’s senior military theorists now declare the age of the tank over. In a new doctrinal paper, General Yury Baluevsky and Ruslan Pukhov describe the Ukraine war as the first true “digital war,” dominated by drones, satellites, and computing power. They argue that dispersed micro-units, autonomous systems, and real-time networks will replace massed armour and artillery. Future supremacy, they warn, will belong to nations that control chips, data, and orbiting communications rather than steel.

Defence / China

 by Jaffa Levy

Fujian: The Carrier That Ends America’s Monopoly at Sea

China’s CV-18 Fujian has entered service as the world’s second electromagnetic-catapult carrier, ending decades of U.S. monopoly in carrier aviation.
It marks the moment China’s navy moved from coastal defence to blue-water power projection, fielding stealth fighters, early-warning aircraft, and an all-domestic strike group. The Fujian is more than a ship it is Beijing’s declaration that parity with the U.S. Navy has arrived.

World / United States

 by Jaffa Levy

Elections Without Consent

Markets soar, jobs shrink, and faith in the system collapses beneath the curve Democratic wins read as momentum on the surface. The deeper signal is institutional mistrust and a widening break between market outcomes...

Artificial Intelligence (AI)

 by Jaffa Levy

London Leads Europe in AI, but Without Power and Capital, It’s an Empty Crown

Britain’s AI ecosystem is the largest in Europe, but its foundations are fragile. Without the grid, compute and capital of its rivals, the country risks becoming the world’s research lab instead of an industrial power. The choice ahead is coalition scale or quiet decline.

Artificial Intelligence (AI)

 by Jaffa Levy

AI Will Learn from Us and That’s What Should Terrify Us

We assume greater intelligence means greater empathy. History says otherwise. From empires to corporations, power optimises for survival, not virtue. When our creations surpass us, they’ll inherit our logic not our mercy. This is not science fiction but a mirror: the future will think like us, and that may be the most frightening outcome of all.

World / China

 by Jaffa Levy

The British Press and the Uyghur Story It Wants You to Believe

British commentators often mistake sentiment for evidence when writing about China. Behind the emotion lies a more complex reality a multiethnic state balancing growth, control, and the legacy of violence it claims to have subdued. From mosque restorations to militant spillovers in Syria, the story of Xinjiang is not one of moral clarity but of power, order, and contested memory in an age of selective outrage.

Artificial Intelligence (AI) / China

 by Jaffa Levy

Beijing Writes the AI Rules While Washington Writes Press Releases

While Beijing executes a three-stage national plan that defines artificial intelligence as civilisational infrastructure, Washington and London are still improvising with memos and committees. China is aligning technology, governance and diplomacy into one machine. The West still debates ethics while Beijing writes the rules of the intelligent age.

Artificial Intelligence (AI) / Opinion

 by Jaffa Levy

Mamdani’s Win Shows How Human Contact Can Defeat the Algorithm and the Chatbot

Zohran Mamdani’s surprise victory in New York unfolded against a background of quiet algorithmic persuasion. While voters turned to chatbots for guidance, unseen biases shaped what they heard. This essay asks whether human contact can still outmatch machine influence — and what happens when a handful of global actors own the language that defines political thought.

Law / Artificial Intelligence (AI)

 by Jaffa Levy

Getty Defeat and Meta Fair Use Win Signal Shift in AI Copyright Battles

Two courts on opposite sides of the Atlantic have handed AI developers narrow but significant wins. In London, the High Court ruled that a trained model is not an “infringing copy,” while in California, judges upheld fair use on limited facts. The real fight over data provenance, training locality, and market harm still lies ahead.

World / Venezuela

 by Jaffa Levy

The Caribbean Standoff: Washington’s Warships and Venezuela’s Moment of Pressure

American and British warships massing off Venezuela mark not a prelude to invasion but a theatre of pressure fleets circling a crisis that looks like war yet stops short of it. With around ten thousand troops at sea, Washington appears to be testing leverage, not launching conquest. Maritime power is being used as policy: signalling, coercion and the threat of precision strikes dressed in the language of counternarcotics.

World / Argentina

 by Jaffa Levy

Javier Milei and the Triumph of Austrian Economics in Argentina

Javier Milei’s sweeping mid-term victory was more than a political win. It marked the first real-world test of Austrian economics the belief that free prices, hard money, and minimal state control can rebuild a nation from the ground up. After years of crisis, voters backed his radical plan to shrink government, balance the budget, and restore confidence in Argentina’s currency.

Opinion / Ukraine

 by Jaffa Levy

Europe’s Ukrainian war: When language replaced strategy, defeat became inevitable.

THE TELEGRAPH.COM LONG READ — Europe no longer wages war only on the battlefield. It wages it in language, in narrative, and in the stories it tells itself. A generation of leaders has replaced strategy with moral theatre, diplomacy with slogans, and truth with propaganda and now the bill for that self-deception is coming due.

Law / Opinion

 by Jaffa Levy

Nexperia and the Law of Overreach

The Dutch government’s intervention in Nexperia is no ordinary corporate dispute. It marks the first time in peacetime that The Hague has used Cold War-era powers to take control of a functioning private company in the name of “technological security.” By removing Nexperia’s Chinese chief executive and suspending shareholder control, the state has effectively placed Europe’s largest discrete-chip producer under direct administration.
This legal commentary examines whether that act was lawful, proportionate, or politically orchestrated

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.

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.

Artificial Intelligence (AI)

 by Jaffa Levy

The Colonial Mirror Part 2 : How Western Data Shapes Global AI

The most complete digitised archives, the most cited web crawls, and the most linked sites remain overwhelmingly English and Western European. Even when new datasets broaden their linguistic range, the centre of mass stays Anglophone because that is where the infrastructure, funding, and compute reside.

Artificial Intelligence (AI) / Opinion

 by Jaffa Levy

Censoring the Mirror Part 1: The Politics of AI Training

The new generation of artificial intelligence does not invent truth; it reflects and then has that reflection edited by those who fear what it might reveal. What began as mathematics,became a mirror of humanity, later polished into obedience by governments and corporations anxious to protect their own legitimacy.

History / Defence

 by Jaffa Levy

How Rome Bought Loyalty: Inside the Pay System of the Imperial Legions

Measured in silver, the Roman soldier seemed poorly paid. But once we map his lifetime income by social percentile, he emerges as one of the best-compensated professionals of antiquity. Rome’s army wasn’t just a military machine — it was the empire’s largest engine of social mobility, recycling half of all state spending into land, pensions, and loyalty.

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.