Foreign policy “expertise” in Washington is not a neutral space - it is a market. Millions from Gulf states and defense contractors flow into think tanks that simultaneously analyze, legitimize, and help prepare wars. This article uses concrete cases and data to expose how influence operates without ever being openly declared - and why “independent analysis” often isn’t.
Four rounds of negotiations over the largest war on European soil since 1945 — and not a single EU representative at the table. While Washington, Moscow, and Kyiv hash out front lines, security guarantees, and Ukraine's reconstruction in Geneva, Europe writes the checks, delivers the weapons, and waits outside. What has barely registered in European newsrooms: Russia has conceded more in these talks than at any point since the war began. The framework for Europe's security architecture for the coming decades is being set right now. Europe did not help write it.