In the Blind Spot: Europe’s rearmament that isn’t
SNEAK PEEK — Why Europe should be pursuing a different type of rearmament. Dear subscribers: Dario here. I have to be upfront about my deficiencies. With things moving so quickly, it’s hard to keep up and analyse the goings-on. I’ve never felt more stupid than in the first three months of 2025. But that […]
In the Blind Spot: A controlled demolition of U.S. stock prices
SNEAK PEEK — The Mar-a-Lago Accord as a pathway to a new global order and a renewed trust pact centered on the idea of “mutual assured narrative collapse” theory. — Why Trump’s ‘tariff talk’ seeks to emulate China’s ultimate inequality-check mechanism (aka its tendency to use regulatory threats to burst financial bubbles before they […]
In the Blind Spot: Mutual liberation syndrome
SNEAK PEEK — A renewed bid to help Ukraine get its hands on €300 billion of frozen Russian assets may embolden Zelensky to go it alone with only EU support. — When both sides think they’re saving the other. The skeleton key to understanding global markets is that nobody can agree on who is […]
In the Blind Spot: Watch out, Morocco
SNEAK PEEK — Why Trump may secretly love what he openly pretends to hate about Zelensky. — How the firewall that protects American citizens can only be upheld by dismantling America’s dirty tricks empire and replacing it with an open empire. — Why Morocco is more fragile than you think. Dear subscribers: Dario here. Is it just […]
In the Blind Spot: Memecoin philanthropy and the Mar-a-Lago Accord
Dear Subscribers, Izzy here. Writing from “burnout leave”. Dario is holding the fort for now, but I am acutely conscious that subscribers have only had one properly drafted newsletter from me this year. I just wanted to reassure you all that I will be back in normal operating mode the first weekend of March. Until […]
In the Blind Spot: Middle East peace (or war?)
SNEAK PEEK — Why Trump’s Gaza plan may not be what you think it is. — How might Trump’s destruction of USAID reshape Europe? — What does DOGE’s identification of an old-fashioned file-storage system responsible for bottlenecks in the federal government say about neo-medievalism? Dear subscribers: Dario here. I finally have a good view from the […]
In the Blind Spot: America’s global cassus belli
SNEAK PEEK — Why Trump’s designation of cartels as terrorist organizations is a covert, flexible and global casus belli. — Why Middle Eastern optimism over MBS could backfire. — Egg-gate: How the online backlash over Ross Coulthart’s supposed UFO egg footage reiterates that we should stop worshipping video evidence. Dear subscribers. It’s been a week since […]
In the Blind Spot: Why the doom loop is no longer theoretical
SNEAK PEEK — The doom loop is coming for the West and coordinated financial repression will be needed to deal with it. — Why incoming Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent is eyeing the formation of a new liberal trading bloc and exotic securities to counter the worst of it. — What the TikTok and RedNote […]
In the Blind Spot: The New Middle East
SNEAK PEEK — How Israel’s 15-month war and Assad’s toppling are reshaping the Middle East. — Historic parallels underscore the latest UFO whistleblower claims. Dear subscribers, As the world’s geopolitical tectonic plates shift beneath our feet before the impending inauguration of President Donald Trump, I (Dario) have gathered sufficient leverage over The Blind Spot’s […]
In the Blind Spot: The rise of Oceania
SNEAK PEEK — How the tariff debate masked Trump’s real agenda: building an Oceania Technate within the context of a new great game. — Britain’s mishandling of the grooming gang scandal foreshadows the reckoning society will have to have about the Covid Lab Leak, argues Izzy. — There’s an innovation puzzle at the heart […]