№ 1
Everyone Is Watching Israel, Iran, Russia and Ukraine. Nobody Is Watching the Interceptor They All Run Out Of.
The weapon no longer decides the war. The cost of stopping it does.
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№ 2
Everyone Is Watching the Price of Oil. Nobody Is Watching Who Is Paying to Keep It Down.
The strait is calm and oil is cheap. The calm is bought, by four buffers quietly running out.
№ 3
Everyone Is Watching the Front in Ukraine. Nobody Is Watching the Factories in Europe.
Europe has stopped funding Ukraine's war and started building it, on its own soil. Russia has published the factory addresses and called them targets. Whether that is an act of war is not decided in Brussels.
№ 4
Everyone Is Watching Iran Close Hormuz. Nobody Is Watching America Reopen Russia.
The world's entire oil buffer sits behind the Strait of Hormuz. Close the strait and you strand the cure, leaving Russian oil as the only valve. A sanction is a luxury of surplus.
№ 5
Everyone Is Watching the Data Centers. Nobody Is Watching the Power That Isn't There.
An AI data center can be built in a year. The firm power to run it takes five to seven, and the one machine that makes it, the gas turbine, is sold out through the decade.