Briefing № 069Declassified 2026-11-04

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Analysis tagged "2026" on The Arc of Power.

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FILE 069

The Midterm That Repriced AI Capex

GeopoliticsNovember 4, 202612 min read

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The Market Bets on Talks, Not Peace

GeopoliticsOctober 23, 202611 min read

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AI's Approval Crash Reaches the Ballot Box

GeopoliticsOctober 21, 202615 min read

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The Lab That Addressed the IMF

GeopoliticsOctober 19, 202613 min read

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Allies Break Ranks as Markets Abandon Ukraine Peace

GeopoliticsOctober 16, 202613 min read

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The Starlink Chokepoint

DefenseOctober 14, 202615 min read

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Ukraine Hit Yandex's Data Centers

DefenseOctober 12, 202612 min read

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Amazon Told Towns to Stop Fighting. The Grid Said Otherwise.

GeopoliticsOctober 9, 202612 min read

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The Pentagon Gave Its Future to the Billionaires

DefenseOctober 5, 202612 min read

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AI Capex Is Now a Subsidy Fight

EconomicsOctober 2, 202612 min read

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The 'Bretton Woods of Super Intelligence' Is a Bluff

GeopoliticsSeptember 30, 202612 min read

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Anthropic Said No to the Pentagon. It Got Blacklisted.

GeopoliticsSeptember 25, 202613 min read

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Europe Drops Russia Sanctions as Its Airspace Gets Probed

GeopoliticsSeptember 23, 202612 min read

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Open Weights Are Now Statecraft

GeopoliticsSeptember 21, 202613 min read

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The Pentagon's Europe Drawdown Is Already Priced In

GeopoliticsSeptember 18, 202612 min read

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Germany Cracks: The AfD and the 500B Doom Loop

GeopoliticsSeptember 14, 202614 min read

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NATO's Quiet Turn to Autonomous War

DefenseSeptember 11, 202613 min read

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Switzerland Just Fired Microsoft

GeopoliticsSeptember 7, 202612 min read

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Trump's Venezuela Oil Gambit

GeopoliticsSeptember 4, 202614 min read

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How Taiwan Risk Is Repricing the Chip Supply Chain

GeopoliticsSeptember 2, 202611 min read

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Russia's Frozen War Is Cracking at the Table

GeopoliticsAugust 31, 202613 min read

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The 50% Wall

EconomicsAugust 26, 202613 min read

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When the Grid Says No

GeopoliticsAugust 24, 202614 min read

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The Billionaire-Tax Illusion

EconomicsAugust 21, 202612 min read

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Alliances as Leverage: Trump's Korea Drill Gambit

DiplomacyAugust 17, 202613 min read

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Sanders Demands a Pause. Polymarket Prices It at 96%.

GeopoliticsAugust 16, 202611 min read

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The Open-Weight 'Letter' Is a Lobbying War

GeopoliticsJuly 27, 202612 min read

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The Security Incident That Argued For Open Weights

GeopoliticsJuly 22, 202614 min read

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China's K3 Gambit Is a Power Move, Not a Launch

GeopoliticsJuly 17, 202612 min read

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Trump's Hormuz Toll Play and the 88% Market Spike

GeopoliticsJuly 13, 202614 min read

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Trump vs the Alliance: What the Ankara NATO Summit Revealed

GeopoliticsJuly 10, 202616 min read

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Netanyahu's 18-Point Collapse

GeopoliticsJuly 3, 202611 min read

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The Weights Embargo

GeopoliticsJune 24, 202610 min read

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China Just Won the Rare-Earths Race

GeopoliticsJune 22, 202611 min read

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The Trillionaire Playbook

GeopoliticsJune 12, 202611 min read

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The Apache Exchange: US-Iran Goes Direct

GeopoliticsJune 10, 202611 min read

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The Ceasefire That Wasn't

GeopoliticsJune 8, 202611 min read

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Nationalize AI? Bernie's 50% Stake vs. Trump's Partnership

GeopoliticsJune 5, 202612 min read

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Regulatory Capture in Real Time

GeopoliticsJune 3, 20269 min read

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The $965B Bet Needs Power to Run

GeopoliticsJune 1, 202614 min read

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Russia's Oreshnik on Kyiv: The Strike Nobody Could Stop

GeopoliticsMay 25, 202613 min read

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California vs Washington on AI: Polymarket Says 10%

GeopoliticsMay 22, 202610 min read

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Chamath's 18 Months: Taiwan, TSMC-Arizona, and the Clock

GeopoliticsMay 18, 202612 min read

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Xi Said the Quiet Part: Taiwan 'Could Trigger Conflict'

GeopoliticsMay 15, 20268 min read

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Trump Arrives in Beijing Already Losing the Room

GeopoliticsMay 13, 202612 min read

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Sovereign Compute, Sovereign Army: The 2026 Through-Line

GeopoliticsMay 11, 202614 min read

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AI Data Center Bans: 69 Jurisdictions, Polymarket 93%

GeopoliticsMay 8, 202610 min read

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Polymarket's 78% Iran Peace Odds Misprice the Hormuz Tail

GeopoliticsMay 6, 202616 min read

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Hormuz De-Escalation Reprices Energy and Compute Together

GeopoliticsMay 1, 202613 min read

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Russia's Reserve Wall Cracks, Polymarket Won't Move

GeopoliticsApril 27, 202612 min read

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What the Iran Ceasefire Extension Is Really Hiding

GeopoliticsApril 22, 20268 min read

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Iran's Prediction Markets Tell Two Stories

GeopoliticsApril 20, 202611 min read

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The Iran Ceasefire Is Theater

GeopoliticsApril 17, 202612 min read

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The Xi Variable: How China Is Breaking Maximum Pressure

GeopoliticsApril 15, 202612 min read

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The Hormuz Blockade: UK Refuses, NATO Fractures

GeopoliticsApril 13, 202611 min read