The Manifest, Week 12, 2026: What This Week Revealed About Power
From Hormuz to Rome, this week’s chapters exposed how crisis, continuity, and imperial strain still govern the world beneath the headlines.
Geopolitics is rarely decided by events. It is decided by the architecture beneath them: NATO's eastward expansion, Russia and China cast as the designated adversaries, and Iran at the Strait of Hormuz, the chokepoint that prices every crisis. These chapters trace the energy corridors, sanctions regimes and strategic competition that outlast whoever holds office.