Author: Scott Ortkiese

Mini-Me Without a Plan: Don’t Worry, the Markets Will Be Just Fine

Wall Street and geopolitical analysts turn stalled peace talks, a constrained Hormuz, and Mag 7 earnings into rival narratives of certainty.

The AI Oligarchs Delivered a “Useful Idiot” as the American President

Americans Are Being Repaid With Unemployment and a Wrecked Global Economy

The Humans Elected a “Useful Idiot” for AI; They Will Be Repaid with Everything But Kindness

Trump’s AI orders clear democratic constraints for Thiel, Sacks and capital pools seeking data centers, automated labor and war at sovereign scale.

The Gulf States Paid Washington to Destroy Them

The petrodollar and the fifty-year protection racket now coming apart at Hormuz

The Optimal Strategy for Losing the American Empire

How Trump Ensures America’s Decline at Maximum Cost to Itself and Its Allies

The Self-Inflicted Collapse: How Trump Handed the World to Everyone Else

A global accounting of American strategic suicide and the multipolar order rising from the wreckage.

America Owns the Seas. So They’re Bombing Iranian and Chinese Railroads.

The Iran war is not about nuclear weapons or regime change. It is about who controls the trade arteries between Russia, China, India and the Middle East.

Americans, Your World Just Got More Expensive and More Dangerous

The global order America built is collapsing, and nobody in Washington will tell you what replaces it or what it will cost you.

Did Pete Hegseth really quote the Pulp Fiction screenplay when he thought he was quoting the bible?

Yes, this happened, and it is every bit as absurd as it sounds.

The Iran War’s Hidden Toll on Asia-Pacific: A War of Choice, a Region in Collapse, and a Bill Every American Will Pay

Hormuz disruption is driving fuel, food, debt, and supply shocks from Southeast Asia to U.S. consumers, threatening nearly two billion people.