Author: Jordan Henry
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May 18, 2026: The Boy Who Cried Sarmat
May 18, 2026: The Boy Who Cried Sarmat On May 12, Russia test-fired the world’s largest missile, the 208-ton Sarmat ICBM. That same week, Ukrainian drones penetrated Moscow’s heavily-defended airspace to strike industrial plants and oil refineries. Against the backdrop of this asymmetry, Sergey Karaganov has returned to state television to argue that Russia must
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Nuclear Power’s Big Leap Forward (w/ Roger Martella)
Nuclear Power’s Big Leap Forward (w/ Roger Martella) One year ago, President Donald Trump signed a series of executive orders aimed at accelerating the deployment of nuclear energy in the United States. The impact has been dramatic, pulling forward the construction of small modular reactors by roughly five years and reshaping how industry, government, and
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Reality Always Wins | Who Russians Really Want in Charge
In his latest Reality Always Wins post, Paul Saunders digs into a striking recent finding: 55% of economically-active Russians say they’d prefer to be governed by an AI algorithm than by their current corrupt officials. Saunders reads the result less as enthusiasm for machine rule than as a quiet protest vote against Russia’s political system—a
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US Grand Strategy and the Madman Theory: From Nixon to Trump
What happens when a president convinces the world he might just do the unthinkable? In US Grand Strategy and the Madman Theory, James D. Boys argues that projecting calculated irrationality can terrify adversaries into submission, but at enormous risk. From Nixon’s secret Cold War gambits to Trump’s chaotic tweet-driven diplomacy, Boys explores how these two
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Iran: The U.S. Needs to Find an Offramp, Soon
Ten weeks after the U.S. and Israel began their campaign of military strikes against Iran, a ceasefire remains in place, but negotiations appear deadlocked. In the Center for the National Interest’s latest Policy Brief, CFTNI Senior Fellow Greg Priddy assesses current circumstances and U.S. options in what has become an economic war of attrition. In
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