Geopolitika
In global politics, few obsessions have proven as enduring—or seemingly as bizarre—as Donald Trump’s fixation on Greenland. As of January 2026, the former president, now back in the White House, has escalated his campaign with a “framework” deal announced at Davos, aiming to secure U.S. access
Geopolitika
If you’ve been following the headlines in early 2026—from Hong Kong’s national security trial against former vigil organisers, to Beijing brushing off UN concerns over forced labour in Xinjiang, to rescue ops near Scarborough Shoal and fresh U.S.–China friction over TikTok’s joint-venture workaround—
Geopolitika
Narratives are the scaffolding in the architecture of information warfare. They don't just report events—they script consent, naturalise alliances, and divert attention from material flows. To dismantle them, we need tools that cut through the spectacle to the power functions beneath. Enter the UNDP-FHA Fusion Protocol
Mindwars
A decade of papers from one conspiracy theory theorist’s circle doesn’t just “explain” why people believe conspiracies—it builds a psychometric machine that traps political suspicion inside personality scores, ready for platforms, policymakers and “resilience” programmes. Over the last ten years, if you’ve seen a sober explainer
Geopolitika
The raid that took Nicolás Maduro and his wife out of Caracas was over in hours. There were explosions, statements, grainy footage and angry press conferences. Depending on who you ask, it was either a precision rescue of Venezuelan democracy, a naked act of imperial violence, or something in between.
Geopolitika
RUSI has already told us what it is. RUSI – Choreographing Legitimacy traced the institute back to its charter as an imperial war college and forward to its current role as a Crown-sanctioned narrative forge, where ex-generals, intelligence chiefs and legal officers rehearse the lines that turn coercive power
Mindwars
Thesis: QAnon and MINDSPACE are not ideological opposites. They are mirror architectures in the same belief-management system—one captures and demobilises distrust, the other steers compliance—with Conspiracy Theory Theory (CTT) acting as the bridge that harvests fallout from the first to justify expansion of the second. Earlier Mindwars
Mindwars
Thesis: Conspiracy Theory Theorists (CTTs) don’t just “study false beliefs”; they build a repeating logical fallacy pipeline—definition → measurement → intervention—that lets institutions downgrade unapproved narratives without having to adjudicate them. In the evolving Mindwars series, we’ve mapped how Conspiracy Theory Theory (CTT)—the academic field that studies
Reflections
Many thanks to everyone who has supported my work on Substack this year under Journeys by the Styx and welcome to everyone who has come across to the new weblog Mindwars Ghosted. It has been a journey since I started writing on the topic of Estrangement Ideology only 12 months
Geopolitika
Chatham House’s Winter 2025 report “The world in 2026” reads like a neutral dashboard: a compact, public-facing outlook that moves briskly from theatre to theatre and domain to domain. What makes it influential isn’t a single prediction. It’s the format discipline—a way of turning complex
Mindwars
In earlier Mindwars articles, the main antagonist was clear: the social-psychology academics who turn “conspiracy theories” into a freestanding risk category, bolt it onto misinfo infrastructure and hand it to the managerial state as a governance tool. The generalist cluster around Douglas, Hornsey, Lewandowsky and Imhoff builds scales, harms
Geopolitika
A very specific story about the war in Ukraine now circulates through European ministries, NATO headquarters, think-tank events and big media panels: Russia is Losing—Time for Putin's 2026 Hybrid Escalation. In that story, Russia is on a structural slide: * Sanctions are biting * The economy is distorted