Geopolitics
There’s a moment in every civilization, usually right before the wheels come off, when the richest people in the room start talking about demons. For Russia, that moment was Rasputin, the unwashed mystic whispering into the ear of a doomed royal family. For post-Soviet Russia, it was Alexander Dugin,
Society
Virality used to mean chickenpox. Now it means your aunt’s Facebook post about Bill Gates putting 5G in your teabags. Progress, apparently. Somewhere between cat videos and Kremlin psy-ops, the word stopped being cute and started being terrifying. What we call “going viral” has become less about a quirky
Security
The twenty-first-century superpower no longer needs to park an aircraft-carrier group next to its rival; it just needs a lab bench or a laptop, preferably one with the moral firewall turned off. In an era where the biggest battlefield is the weekly grocery run, two vectors, killer fungi and killer
Espionage
Once upon a time, spycraft was elegant. Picture a trench coat, a hollow brick wall, maybe a microdot hidden behind a postage stamp. You’d whisper secrets in a Vienna park, then melt into the fog like a mysterious bout of indigestion. It was classy, it was clever, and more
OSINT
The next time you see a war break out, don’t bother doomscrolling or turning on CNN. Just check the Google Maps heatmap around the Pentagon’s nearest Domino’s. If it’s glowing red at 10 p.m., congratulations: you may be witnessing the digital aroma of geopolitics heating