Author: Scott Ortkiese

Who’s Afraid of the Big Bad Alexander Wolf?

Alexander Wolf recast peace in Ukraine as regime change in Moscow, protecting Germany’s €140 billion rearmament budget from a ceasefire.

Trump Blackmails Allies Abroad While Being Blackmailable at Home: The Irony of It All

Trump’s Section 301 tariffs hit sixty economies under a disputed forced labor rationale as his Justice Department suppresses Epstein files at home.

The $1.65 Trillion Nobody Was Supposed to Find: Read the Footnotes Before Someone Else Buys a Tech Stock in Your Name

How Big Tech financed the AI buildout off its own books, who actually owes the money, and why the bill lands on YOU!

The Kimi K3 Reckoning: The AI IPOs Didn’t See It Coming

Moonshot’s Kimi K3 beat U.S. rivals on coding benchmarks and price, exposing the political protection behind American AI IPOs.

Brute Force Is Not Progress: The Trillion Dollar AI Bill Everyone Else Is Paying

How generative AI’s engineering failure became a household cost, a grid risk, a water crisis, an electoral fight, and a capital markets fable.

The Trillion Dollar Bill Is Not Yours: What the Western AI Buildout Means for Russia

A companion essay for Russian and Eurasian readers on the AI capex cycle, the multipolar technology response, and what Moscow can and cannot do about it.

Russophobia and the Unjust War the West Will Not Win

How the European Union, the UK, Finland, and the Baltic States Chose an Unwinnable Proxy War With Russia, and Why

The SpaceX IPO Grift: An Anatomy of the Most Ridiculous Overreach in Capital Markets History

SpaceX raised $75 billion at a 120 times revenue valuation, then shed nearly $600 billion as its engineered float and lockup risk emerged.

Patriot Missile Myths, Proxy Wars, and the Capture of Western Foreign Policy by the Tech Oligarchs

Trump is nothing but a vulgar prop for the tech oligarchs. They like their knaves stupid and uninformed. Mission accomplished with POTUS.

OBITUARY: U.S. Senator and Foul Little War Criminal, Lindsey Olin Graham, Dead at 71

For 24 years, Graham sold enemies to America and sold America to its enemies, turning foreign wars into a career financed by donors.