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The U.S. Army Paid RAND to Find Russia’s Weak Points in 2019. RAND Is Still Grading the War.
How the same institution wrote the doctrine, supplied the personnel, and graded its own homework.
Jerry van der Laan
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In 1990, James Baker Told Gorbachev NATO Would Not Move One Inch Eastward.
How a defensive alliance built an expansion architecture, and what George Kennan said would happen next.
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Donald Trump Has Been Investigated, Impeached, Indicted, and Convicted. He Is Still President.
The architecture of impunity was not built for Trump. It was built before him. He is the first person to use all of it at once, in public.
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The Generals Are Gone. Now What?
Trump didn’t just fire military leaders. He dismantled the system that makes American power legible to the world.
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Vietnam Had a RAND Strategy.
The institution that writes the doctrine, supplies the personnel, and grades its own homework. How RAND learned to hold the framework, and never has to be right.
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Three Mechanisms Break the IMF’s Hormuz Model. All Three Are Already Running.
Why the standard recovery scenario fails before Hormuz reopens.
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Iran Never Forgot What Happened to Russia. That Is Why the Islamabad Talks Failed.
The refusal everyone read as stubbornness was memory. Iran spent thirty-five years studying what happened to every country that surrendered its leverage and signed first.
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Russia Named European Drone Factories as Military Targets on April 15.
How the escalation ladder got another rung. No one has said where the top is.
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Tesla's Papers Were Declared Worthless in 1943.
The legend was not made by a suppressed invention. It was made by an absence. A sealed archive at the center of a famous life does not stay empty; it fills with whatever we most want, or fear, to be true.
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The Strait of Hormuz Closed 54 Days Ago.
This is not a prediction. It is an observation about architecture. The same four structural conditions that converted a recession into a…
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Jeffrey Sachs Left Russia in 1994. The Contracts of That Decade Are Still Running.
How IMF conditionality and investment treaties turned economic policy into permanent law
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Five Continents. Same Stones. Same Stars. Same Silence.
How the same geometry appears on five continents, and why the question is not being asked