News around Ukraine
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Leonardo Unveils ‘Michelangelo’ AI to Unite Europe’s Fragmented Defense
Italian defense contractor Leonardo has unveiled plans for the “Michelangelo Dome,” an advanced, artificial intelligence-driven system designed to integrate and coordinate Europe’s fragmented military assets against modern aerial threats. Speaking to Richard Quest on CNN’s Quest Means Business, Leonardo CEO and General Manager Roberto Cingolani detailed the ambitious project, describing it as a “comprehensive system” set…
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Beijing’s ‘Creeping Sovereignty’ Tactics Alarm South Korea in Yellow Sea
China has unilaterally deployed surveillance buoys and massive industrial platforms in the Yellow Sea waters shared with South Korea, raising concerns that Beijing is expanding its “grey zone” tactics to assert control over disputed maritime areas, according to a new analysis by the Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS). Since 2018, Beijing has installed…
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Zeihan: Global Depression Was Inevitable, Trump Just an ‘Accelerant’
In a stark assessment of the global economic landscape released on Friday via his “Zeihan on Geopolitics” channel, geopolitical strategist Peter Zeihan argued that a looming global depression is not the result of Donald Trump’s tariff policies, but rather the inevitable consequence of long-term demographic and structural shifts. Responding to viewer questions regarding whether the…
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George Friedman: Demographic Storm, Not Politics, Is the Looming Crisis
While the American public remains fixated on the immediate turbulence of the daily news cycle, a deeper, structural storm is gathering on the horizon. According to geopolitical strategist George Friedman, the United States is barreling toward a socioeconomic crisis driven not by politics, but by the math of demographics: a shrinking workforce squeezed between low…
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Scott Manley Scrutinizes Lumen Orbit’s Vision for Orbital AI Data Centers
In the midst of a global boom in artificial intelligence development, a Silicon Valley startup is looking beyond the Earth’s atmosphere to solve the energy crisis facing terrestrial data centers. Lumen Orbit, backed by the prestigious tech accelerator Y Combinator, recently published a white paper proposing the construction of massive orbital data centers for AI…
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Merz Declares End of ‘Pax Americana’ as Critical Ukraine Talks Loom
German Chancellor Friedrich Merz has delivered a stark assessment of the future of transatlantic relations, warning that the era of United States-led global stability is effectively over and that Europe must prepare to assert its own interests more aggressively. Speaking ahead of high-stakes negotiations in Berlin aimed at ending the war in Ukraine, Merz struck…
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Silicon Valley and Big Oil Spark Geothermal Revolution
For decades, geothermal energy has remained the sleeping giant of the renewable energy transition. Despite being one of the cleanest and most reliable power sources available, it has languished as a niche industry, contributing less than 1% to the global energy mix. However, a convergence of Silicon Valley capital and petroleum engineering is sparking a…
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World Approaches Demographic Turning Point Not Seen Since Black Death
The world is approaching a demographic turning point not seen since the bubonic plague, as plummeting fertility rates across developing nations suggest the global population could peak significantly sooner than international bodies predict. According to a new analysis by editors at The Economist, the long-held assumption that the human population will continue to grow until the…
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Futurist Peter Leyden: Global Turbulence Signals Birth of a New Civilization
According to futurist Peter Leyden, the turbulence characterizing the current geopolitical and economic landscape is not merely the noise of a chaotic decade; it is the sound of a tectonic shift in human civilization. In a comprehensive new interview with Big Think and Freethink, Leyden argues that we have arrived at a rare historical juncture—a…
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The Population Bomb Is Over. The Global Collapse Has Begun
For the past half-century, global policymakers have operated under the shadow of the “population bomb”—the fear that humanity would breed itself into starvation. According to renowned demographer and political economist Nicholas Eberstadt, that era is over. We are now facing the inverse crisis: a global population collapse. In a wide-ranging interview on the Hoover Institution’s…