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Europe Wants to Seize Russia’s Money. The Real Risk Is to the West.

Europe is preparing to turn Russia’s three hundred billion dollars of frozen reserves into reconstruction funds for Ukraine. On paper, it looks like a moral victory. In reality, it may be the most dangerous financial decision the West has made in decades. The entire Western-led financial system rests on

Why the World Feels Like It’s Shifting All at Once

The global order is not collapsing. It is being rearranged — quietly, unevenly, and faster than most governments admit. This site exists to track those shifts as they happen, and to explain what they mean for people watching from Karachi, Munich, Washington, Riyadh, or anywhere in between. Over the past two