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The Manifest Archive
By Jerry
Jerry van der Laan
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Jerry van der Laan

Jerry van der Laan is an independent analyst and the author of The Manifest Archive. He reconstructs how energy, money and state power interact from public data and primary documents.

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Vladimir Putin and the Wars He Didn’t Start
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Vladimir Putin and the Wars He Didn’t Start

Restraint, escalation, and the danger of mistaking discipline for weakness

Geopolitics Jan 14, 2026
Azov Battalion, Neo-Nazis, and the War the West Rewrote
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Azov Battalion, Neo-Nazis, and the War the West Rewrote

How a documented reality became unsayable

Geopolitics Jan 13, 2026
Mark Rutte and the Lethal Certainty of War
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Mark Rutte and the Lethal Certainty of War

How estimates become facts, language becomes policy, and uncertainty is compressed into a certainty that drains away the time in which a war might still be stopped.

Geopolitics Jan 12, 2026
Inside the System: Writing the Manifest from Within
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Inside the System: Writing the Manifest from Within

There is no outside position

The Track Record Jan 11, 2026
The Internet Shutdown Playbook: How Power Switches Off Coordination Without a Blackout
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The Internet Shutdown Playbook: How Power Switches Off Coordination Without a Blackout

The screen never goes dark. It just stops working when it matters. How precision friction, not the total blackout, became the deniable instrument that breaks coordination without creating a martyr.

Surveillance, Tech & Intelligence Jan 10, 2026
Iran and the Architecture of Permanent Pressure
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Iran and the Architecture of Permanent Pressure

How sanctions became a system, silence became participation, and sovereignty turned conditional

Geopolitics Jan 9, 2026
Make Europe Great Again
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Make Europe Great Again

What America Loses When It Lets Europe Go

Geopolitics Jan 8, 2026
After the Führer
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After the Führer

How liberation became structure, and why power is visible again

Fourth Reich & Postwar Continuity Jan 7, 2026
Greenland: Why the Arctic Chokepoint Became the West's Fault Line
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Greenland: Why the Arctic Chokepoint Became the West's Fault Line

When Protection Lost Its Limits

Geopolitics Jan 6, 2026
Why America Is Moving North
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Why America Is Moving North

The Arctic was never empty. It was simply quiet.

Geopolitics Jan 5, 2026
Venezuela: How the United States Robs a Country in Plain Sight
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Venezuela: How the United States Robs a Country in Plain Sight

Oil, sanctions, silence, and the architecture of modern bullying

Geopolitics Jan 4, 2026
IF IT TRACKS YOU, RECORDS YOU, AND NEVER TURNS OFF
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IF IT TRACKS YOU, RECORDS YOU, AND NEVER TURNS OFF

Then it isn’t a phone. It’s surveillance.

Surveillance, Tech & Intelligence Jan 3, 2026