Ukraine Has Discovered the Price of Digital Dependence
Ukraine has spent four years proving that technology can compensate for military disadvantage. It is now discovering that the same technology can also create a...
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Washington and Tehran Are Now Negotiating With the Clock
The US-Iran war has acquired another battlefield. The calendar. After seven months of conflict, talks in New York have produced little progress. Iran has offered...
Washington and Beijing Are Negotiating the Supply Chain of Power
The next phase of the US-China confrontation will not be decided by tariffs. It will be decided by control. Officials from both countries have spent...
Trump Chose Warsh. Inflation Chose His Policy
Kevin Warsh was appointed by Donald Trump. Next week, he may have to disappoint him. US inflation came in hotter than expected in August. Core...
Trump Is Dismantling North America
The US-Canada trade dispute is no longer really about tariffs. It is becoming an exercise in economic separation. Washington has now moved beyond taxing Canadian...
The Tanker War Has Begun
The US-Iran conflict has crossed another threshold. The battlefield is no longer only the Strait of Hormuz. It is the tankers themselves. American forces struck...
Trump Can Control the Oil. He Cannot Control the Politics
Donald Trump may have secured access to one of the largest pools of oil on earth. He has not secured the politics around it. The...
Trump Is Turning North America Into a Trade Battlefield
The US-Canada dispute has crossed an important line. What began as tariff pressure designed to extract concessions is becoming a reciprocal trade war in which...
America Is Taxing Its Own Supply Chain
Tariffs can extract concessions, as the latest US-Canada negotiations confirm. The problem is that, against Canada, they can also produce something considerably more damaging: higher...