Category Archives: Doomsday scenarios

The Dark Enlightenment: The Tech Oligarch Ideology Driving DOGE’s Destruction

How DOGE isn’t just tearing down institutions but also laying the groundwork for an experimental new kind of authoritarian rule.

Putin’s Senior Aide Patrushev Shared Some Updates About the Arctic & Baltic Fronts

Even with a settlement in Ukraine and geopolitical thawing in the Arctic, the UK, Baltics and other refusniks can still cause trouble.

Replacing Foreign Aid: A Macroeconomic Plan B for Ukraine (and Europe)

Some Serious Economists make an analytically desperate justification of Europe providing big-ticket economic assistance to Ukraine

How an Israeli-US Startup Wants to Make Geoengineering Profitable

Forget contrails. Here’s a geoengineering initiative that should give cause for pause.

Is the Endgame with Iran About to Begin?

An update on US escalatory noises about Iran.

Will Russia Expand Its Ground Campaign Into Sumy, Dniepropetrovsk, and/or Kharkov Regions?

Where might Russia take the Ukraine conflict next?

More IDF Depravity: Use of Palestinians as Human Shields

More systematic war crimes by the IDF, covered up as supposedly just a few outlier cases.

Why Is the Trump Administration So Obsessed with Shipping Lanes?

The case that it’s about preparing for conflict with China.

Russian Negotiator Reiterates “Nyet” on Ceasefire Even Before US Emissary Steve Witkoff Arrives in Moscow

Russia nixes the barmy US-Ukraine peace scheme faster and more directly than expected. What next?

So Much for Trump’s Peace Deal with Russia: US Backs Zelensky with Pre-Rejected-by-Russia Ceasefire Scheme

After the (arguably deserved) humiliation of Zelensky after an Oval Office row, the negotiation plan agreed in Jeddah is a big win for him

Climate Change: Insuring the World of Tomorrow

Leading edge conventional wisdom on the role of insurance as climate disasters increase underestimates the severity of the problem.

As US Markets Look a Bit Wobbly, the Press Looks for the Next Crisis in the Rear View Mirror

The Wall Street Journal worried about the giddy mood at the annual structured industry conference. But is where to look for the next crisis?

New Analysis from Economists for Ukraine: The Cost of US Aid to Ukraine Is Less Than Half the Official Figures

A granular analysis of US military and direct aid to Ukraine finds the official tallies are greatly overstated.

France, Germany, & Poland Are Competing For Leadership Of Post-Conflict Europe

France, Germany and Poland are reacting to how relations between Russia, and the US will determine Europe’s future security architecture.

‘We Know What It’s Like’: How Appalachian Towns Are Learning to Help Each Other After Floods

A meant-to-be-heartening story of post-flooding recovery efforts in Appalachia: is this the coming new normal in climate-change-exposed areas?