Category: Articles
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WW3: Why Trump’s 50% military increase may prevent escalation
Donald Trump wants to increase U.S. military spending by roughly 50 percent. This proposal immediately provokes outrage across media, academia, and political commentary. Critics frame it as militarism, authoritarianism, or even a step toward dictatorship. These concerns sound reasonable at first glance. However, they focus on symbolism and personality rather than on geopolitical structure. Power…
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Trump, hemispheric power, and the New Monroe Doctrine
The United States is entering a new Monroe Doctrine era. This shift does not arise from nostalgia, ideology, or a desire for isolation. It emerges from structural pressure. The global distribution of capital, power, and influence has changed faster than American institutions can adapt. Either the United States actively projects a hemispheric doctrine, or external…
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The silent power of financial dynasties
Public debate fixates on visible authority. Elections dominate headlines. Leaders absorb blame. Parties absorb hope. However, this focus misidentifies where decisive power operates. Financial dynasties do not seek legitimacy. Instead, they shape the conditions under which legitimacy functions. Before voters choose, before campaigns begin, economic constraints already exist. These constraints define what governments can realistically…
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Why some conversations are not worth having
Freethinkers International or my X profile are flooded with discussion. That sounds great, yet the people discussing there are not. Of course, we have different IQs, talent, specific mental strategies, personality traits, and have gone through different experiences, or our opinions are unfortunately formed differently. But I am not going to debate whether water can…
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Cartels without gangsters: Power, coordination, and legality
Where are cartels, and why is it almost impossible to break them? People imagine cartels as gangsters. Guns. Drugs. Violence. That image feels comfortable. It pushes the problem far away. However, modern cartels do not wear masks. They wear suits, they file reports, they hire lawyers. They operate legally. Therefore, the first mistake lies in…
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The world is safe: We have a stable leader
We can be proud we have a stable, mature, self-less leader of the world. The praise sounds reassuring. It sounds calming. It sounds like adult supervision has finally arrived. In an age of overlapping wars, collapsing norms, and nuclear escalation, many people want to believe that someone sane sits at the top. Someone restrained, someone…
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Who actually existed? Evidence, myth, and historical reality
History does not reward belief.It rewards traces. When a human being acts in the world, reality pushes back. Institutions react. Enemies respond. Bureaucracies record. Money moves. Violence leaves scars. Those interactions generate documents, inscriptions, coins, ruins, correspondence, and contradictions. Historians work with these leftovers. Because of this, historical method relies on several stable criteria. Contemporary…
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Russia not fighting against West alone
Russia repeatedly claims that it now fights alone against the West. This claim appears persuasive at first glance, especially when framed as a civilizational struggle. However, once history enters the discussion, the narrative starts to unravel. Again and again, Russia survived major conflicts not through isolation, but through alliances, indirect support, or favorable global conditions.…
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Snowden did everything. We did nothing
Edward Snowden did not leak gossip.He did not leak interpretation.He leaked systems. More precisely, Edward Snowden delivered hard proof that modern societies operate under permanent, industrial-scale surveillance (and AI eliminates the need to search for a needle in a haystack). Until then, many suspected it. Afterward, nobody could deny it. At the same time, the…
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Jesus didn’t exist, unlike Caesar and Muhammad
Religious belief fulfills emotional, moral, and social needs, yet historical inquiry follows a different logic. History does not ask what feels meaningful or comforting. It asks what can be supported by evidence, chronology, and independent confirmation. For this reason, the present article does not assess Jesus as a moral teacher or spiritual symbol. It examines…