Author: Scott Ortkiese

The Managed War: How the West Built, Armed, and Prolonged the Destruction of Ukraine

A Forensic Assessment of the Ukraine Conflict

Hey World: Give Peace a Chance

The Neocons, Atlanticists, and the Military-Industrial Complex Turned Ukraine Into a Demographic Catastrophe and Called It Democracy

Altman’s Desperation & The Shakedown Republic: How Trump and the AI Oligarchy Turned a Bubble Into a Protection Racket

When cash-burning AI companies offer the government a stake, they are not sharing the upside. They are selling insurance against the downside.

Not Stagflation. A Just Depression

How Disciplined Economies Will Bury the Petrodollar Age

Paxton Collapse: How Trump’s Texas Pick Turns a Safe Republican Seat Into a Coin Flip

Every structural problem identified in the GOP midterm collapse is amplified, not muted, by Paxton in Texas.

The GOP Collapse Heading Into the 2026 Midterms: Incumbent Lemmings Ignoring Independent Voters to Please Trump

Inflation, unaffordability, vulgarity, self-enrichment, Iran war mongering, deference to Israel, and Epstein: the seven wounds the GOP carries into November

Blow Up the Uniparty

The Independents Are Coming, and Both National Parties Have Earned Their Demolition: Anything is Better Than What We’ve Got.

Remember the Russian Sacrifice in WWII: The EU Countries Don’t

The Red Army bore the decisive losses against Hitler, a fact Western governments minimize to preserve postwar mythology and hostility to Russia.

Kneecapping the Two-Party Uniparty After Trump’s Versailles Moment

Give me anything but a Democrat or a Republican incumbent.

Europe’s Private Credit Market Is Unsupervised and Untested

The Bank of England just stress-tested a potential private credit collapse on its own soil. France, Germany, and the rest of the EU are running the same risk