Global Affairs

Analysis of international business trends, geopolitics, and their impact on markets.

Global Affairs

Analysis of international business trends, geopolitics, and their impact on markets.

British Empire Growth Hack: Bedsheet on a Stick

For three centuries, Britain's premier global corporation aggressively expanded market share through history's most questionable user acquisition strategy: showing up uninvited with a flag and claimin...

Mar 25, 2025

History

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The Invisible Border

In the gleaming city of Prospera, citizens enjoy unprecedented prosperity while just beyond, in the shadow of high surveillance walls, lies Ancestria.

Jun 23, 2025

Malcolm X: When Your Justice Access Request Encounters Infinite Redirection

The young man who would later reconfigure his identity parameters stood before the massive structure labeled "AMERICAN JUSTICE SYSTEM ACCESS TERMINAL." A small sign on the imposing doorway read: "Equa...

Apr 8, 2025

History

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The Marxist Software: Brilliant in Beta, Unstable in Production

Friedrich, I've done it!" Marx exclaimed to his project manager, Friedrich Engels. "The capitalist operating system has fundamental contradictions in its core architecture. I've documented them all an...

Mar 24, 2025

History

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Famine by Design: The British Empire's Disastrous Irish Food Distribution Protocol and Its Predictable Consequences

"The operation of economic principles cannot be suspended to protect one geographical node from its own resource management failures," Trevelyan explained. "In fact, the blight may ultimately prove be...

Mar 31, 2025

History

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Bug Fix: Jerusalem v638.0 - Caliph Umar's Elegant Solution to Faith Permissions Errors

Caliph Umar ibn al-Khattab, second successor to Prophet Muhammad, studied the reports from the Jerusalem siege with thoughtful consideration. Dressed in his famously simple clothes, patched in multipl...

Mar 31, 2025

History

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