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Technology / China / Defence / Russia / Ukraine

 by Jaffa Levy

China and the Ukraine War, Where Drone Components Are Bought and Sourced

Drone warfare did not begin in Ukraine. It began in Nagorno Karabakh and evolved into industrial attrition powered by civilian supply chains. This article explains how modern war shifted from weapons to components, why China’s dominance in drone manufacturing and sourcing makes sanctions structurally weak, and why today’s decisive battlefield runs through factories, logistics hubs, and payment systems far from the front line.

Medicine / Artificial Intelligence (AI) / China / United States

 by Jaffa Levy

Why AI Is Forcing Big Pharma to Turn to China

Artificial intelligence has not solved drug discovery. It has exposed where pharmaceutical development really fails. As decision-making replaces invention as the bottleneck, Western drugmakers are quietly reorganising pipelines and partnerships pulling China into the system not by admiration, but by necessity.

Medicine / Britain / Health

 by Jaffa Levy

Britain Has Chosen Big Pharma Over the NHS

Britain has accepted a trade linked medicines pricing reset that makes the NHS pay more. NICE’s new chief executive has warned that paying more to satisfy Trump style demands is a huge backwards step because higher drug spend means higher taxes or NHS cuts. This analysis explains what the government agreed, why the policy is fracturing, and how the NHS cost can be estimated.

Diplomacy / Europe / Long Read / United States

 by Jaffa Levy

Europe’s Appeasement of Trump Is Hollowing Out Its Power

Europe’s response to Donald Trump’s return is not pragmatic alliance management but a doctrine of appeasement. Repeated concessions to Washington have hardened dependency into habit, hollowed out sovereignty, empowered internal veto holders, and trained institutions to avoid using their own power. This essay explains how appeasement to Trump became path dependent and why it now functions as managed decline.

Artificial Intelligence (AI) / Culture / Technology

 by Jaffa Levy

The Jarvis Layer: Why the Most Dangerous AI Is Not the Smartest One, but the One Closest to You

As AI intelligence becomes cheap and interchangeable, power shifts to the Jarvis layer: the always-on personal assistant that mediates daily life. This analysis explains why proximity, not intelligence, is the new AI chokepoint shaping autonomy, education, and governance.

Artificial Intelligence (AI) / India

 by Jaffa Levy

India’s AI Reckoning: When Intelligence Becomes Cheaper Than Labour

India’s economic rise was built on exporting educated, English speaking labour at scale. Artificial intelligence is now collapsing the price of intelligence itself. As cognitive work becomes cheaper than human labour, India’s outsourcing and IT services model faces a structural shock arriving far sooner than policymakers admit. This analysis examines why reskilling narratives are failing and what is now at stake.

Diplomacy / South America / United States / Venezuela / World

 by Jaffa Levy

The Quote They Omitted: Delcy Rodríguez, CIA Director John Ratcliffe, and the Sequence Western Coverage Will Not Print

A single omitted quotation changes the meaning of a CIA visit to Caracas. When Delcy Rodríguez addressed the families of those killed in the January attack, she placed US intelligence engagement inside a family history of state killing. Western coverage reports the meeting. It omits the sequence that gives it meaning.

Economics / Britain / Business

 by Jaffa Levy

Britain’s Economy Is Not Broken. It Is Being Quietly Mismanaged

Britain does not feel like a country in crisis. That is precisely the danger. Growth limps on, spending rises, and the system appears stable. Yet beneath the calm language, the economy is losing its ability to tell success from failure. Prices no longer speak clearly, losses are concealed, and decline is administered rather than corrected.

Defence / Diplomacy / Geopolitics / Iran / South America / United States

 by Jaffa Levy

The Perimeter Problem: How America’s Shows of Force Are Expanding Risk Instead of Control

The United States is not short of power. It is short of closure. From Iran to Venezuela, Greenland to the Red Sea, Washington’s reliance on visible coercion is widening its obligations faster than it secures compliance. The result is not imminent collapse or world war, but a growing mismatch between reach, endurance, and political outcome.

Ukraine / Defence / Russia

 by Jaffa Levy

Putin Wants NATO Pushed Back to 1998. Ukraine Is How He Is Forcing the Issue

As Ukraine’s cities go dark, Vladimir Putin has hardened Russia’s war aims. Moscow now ties any peace in Ukraine to a broader demand that NATO retreat to its pre-expansion footprint, effectively back to West Germany as it stood in 1998. This is no longer a war over territory. It is a campaign to force a renegotiation of Europe’s security order.

Economics / Culture / India / South Asia

 by Jaffa Levy

The Magnificent Indian People: Resilient, Ingenious and Let Down by a Bureaucracy Built to Control

India’s ordinary people street vendors, small traders, farmers, and informal entrepreneurs are among the most resilient and hardworking on earth. They survive through courage and ingenuity, not because of the state, but in spite of it. The real failure lies not with markets or people, but with a bureaucracy designed to control entry, manufacture monopoly, and suppress competition.

India / Culture / South Asia

 by Anonymous

Mundeshwari: Inside a Great Hindu Temple and a Civilisation That Endures

High on the Kaimur plateau, Mundeshwari Temple is not a relic or a monument but a living expression of a great Hindu civilisation. Unrestored, uninterrupted, and unexplanatory, it reveals how endurance, repetition, and ritual allowed a civilisation to survive while others vanished.

Artificial Intelligence (AI) / Britain / Culture / Economics

 by Jaffa Levy

Sadiq Khan Warns of Mass Unemployment. AI Poses a Deeper Threat to London

London is not heading for mass unemployment. It is heading for class compression. As artificial intelligence reshapes white-collar work, service jobs endure, elite power concentrates, and the middle quietly erodes. The result is a city that keeps working while becoming poorer, narrower and more fragile.

Defence / Arctic / Denmark / United States

 by Jaffa Levy

Greenland Is Not the Prize. The Arctic Corridor Is

As Arctic ice retreats, the High North is being transformed from a frozen periphery into a strategic corridor. This chapter examines why Greenland matters not as territory or mineral wealth, but as fixed infrastructure anchoring military transit, sensing, and enforcement in a newly passable Arctic and why capability, not sovereignty claims, is shaping the redistribution of the North.

Artificial Intelligence (AI) / Psychology

 by Jaffa Levy

AI Will Not Just Take Jobs. It Will Break Identities

Artificial intelligence is usually framed as a jobs problem. That framing misses the deeper risk. The real shock is psychological: the rapid invalidation of skills, status, and expectations that once gave effort meaning. The danger is not unemployment alone, but the collapse of trust in work, institutions, and the future itself.

Iran / Defence / United States

 by Jaffa Levy

When Iran Went Dark, the Protests Lost Their Oxygen

When Iran shut down the internet in January, it did more than silence social media. It severed coordination, visibility, and momentum. This analysis explains how information control, Starlink disruption, and force on the ground stalled a protest movement many assumed was unstoppable.

Britain / Economics

 by Jaffa Levy

HS2 as Mirror: How Britain Lost the Ability to Build, Govern, and Deliver

HS2 was meant to symbolise modern Britain. Instead, it exposes a deeper failure: the loss of state competence. From pandemic waste to collapsing infrastructure, Britain now pays vast sums but struggles to control outcomes. This is not a single scandal. It is a systemic breakdown.

Britain / China / Diplomacy

 by Jaffa Levy

Why Britain Turned a Chinese Embassy Into a National Security Crisis

The proposed Chinese embassy at Royal Mint Court has become a proxy battlefield for Britain’s unresolved China policy. Framed as a security threat despite the absence of clear intelligence objections, the project reveals how redacted plans, protest fears, and geopolitical alignment can harden into narrative certainty. This investigation traces how a planning application was transformed into a national security scare.

Law / Opinion / United States

 by Jaffa Levy

Tariffs as Secondary Sanctions

President Trump’s proposal to impose a 25 per cent tariff on countries “doing business with Iran” marks a sharp departure from established trade practice. This article examines whether such a measure can be grounded in US statutory authority, administered lawfully, and sustained under WTO and public international law.

Diplomacy / Britain / Europe / United States / World

 by Jaffa Levy

Europe’s Uneasy Silence as the United States Tests the Limits of International Law

Europe insists it defends international law but has been cautious when an ally breaches it. From Venezuela where EU statements called for restraint and reiterated Maduro’s illegitimacy without legally condemning U.S. force to Greenland, where joint European statements reaffirm sovereignty, selective application risks eroding NATO credibility and Europe’s strategic standing.

Defence / Iran / United States / World

 by Jaffa Levy

When the Sky Became a Battleground: Iran, Starlink, and the Collapse of Protest Momentum

Western governments presented satellite internet as a democratic safeguard against repression. Iran treated it as hostile infrastructure and moved to deny it. As communications collapsed, protest momentum faded. The lesson is strategic rather than moral: satellite internet is now a contested battlespace.