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June 2026

A Civilisation Worth Defending
On the death of the old world order and the crisis of liberalism
 • Elias Rutten
The Battle for the Digital Dollar: America’s Capital Struggle
This article was written in March 2026
Published on Hague Institute of Geopolitics • 
After the Ayatollah, Trump Drank the Poison
Tehran won the war, but can it also win the peace?
 • Elias Rutten and 𝐑𝐞𝐚𝐬𝐨𝐧 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝐑𝐚𝐩𝐭𝐮𝐫𝐞°
The Concert of Hormuz
Iranian Victory Sharpens Imperial Rivalry
 • Elias Rutten
"The flow of life must be controlled at its source" — Karl Polanyi
The Commonplace · No. 3
 • Elias Rutten
The Eagle’s Graveyard is in the Persian Gulf
An interview with Andrew Gawthorpe on institutional collapse, Iran's strategic patience, and the end of American primacy in the Middle East.
 • Elias Rutten and Andrew Gawthorpe
How Grandma is Funding The Imperial Stack
You thought an Iran-deal before SpaceX IPO'd was a coincidence? They needed money to finance the imperial tech-military-industrial complex, dummy!
 • Elias Rutten
Why Trump Capitulated
Is Trump's Iran war the end of US hegemony? The first in a series. In this piece: oil fragility and the desperation it explains.
 • Elias Rutten
When the Bubble Pops
The AI-Bubble, Explained Simply.
 • Elias Rutten
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