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Weeks where Decades Happen
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Russian Expansion and the 21st Century Great Game
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14
The Great Realignment: US Power Slipping
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12
The Praetorian Problem: Then and Now
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8
Fighting Iran Is a Historically Bad Idea
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4
The Alfred Hitchcock Theory of Debt
 • Sam McCommon
12
Can We Step Back from the Brink?
Olympic-level problem dodging probabilities
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Sam McCommon
3
The Left and Right are Obsolete
Reworking mental models of political orientation
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Sam McCommon
10
The Praetorian Problem: Then and Now
When the power-adjacent seize power, governments go rogue
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Sam McCommon
8
Red Heifers, the Third Temple, Holy Wars, and a New Messianic Age
The world is only going to get crazier
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Sam McCommon
2
Grey Rhinos and Black Swans: Illegal Immigration
Nothing like this has happened before and gone well
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Sam McCommon
Year of the Gray Rhino and Black Swan
2024 has already been wild, and it may mark a historic turning point
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Sam McCommon
4
Fighting Iran Is a Historically Bad Idea
Where do the tit-for-tat escalations lead?
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Sam McCommon
4
Echoes of 1914: History Rhyming Again
Is the Israel-Palestine conflict the spark that ignites the world?
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Sam McCommon
16
Israel and Palestine: Burning the Olive Branch
A conflict long in the making risks going global
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Sam McCommon
3
The Proper Gander
The Proper Gander
Aggressively independent, long-term thinking, making connections and outlining the big picture.
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