Writing
Essays and notes on geopolitics, economics, and political economy. Witnessing power, money, and consequences
He Has Determined.
On Wednesday, 7 January 2026, Donald Trump posted on Truth Social that he had ‘determined’ the military budget for 2027 should be $1.5 trillion—not $1 trillion—for ‘the Good’ of the country in ‘these very troubled and dangerous’ times.
The Return and the Rupture: Trump’s Inauguration as Inflection Point
The inauguration was not a beginning. It was a consequence.
The War On Anything
Nations have mechanisms to guard against the leader behaving like a king. In the case of the USA, courts and Congress must be the guards. But when they fail, authoritarianism slowly takes hold.