While missiles remain the real primary threat to commercial vessels transporting cargo, Iran has begun laying mines in the Strait in retaliation for attacks on its territory. Dozens have been laid in the past few days, according to reports, and could feasibly deploy hundreds more in the waterway.

What was once framed as a contained, targeted operation has, with startling speed, collapsed into a full-scale regional war.

Will the U.S. government, the largest military in the world, become dependent on a single company network for space militarisation? So much so that regulation becomes a logistical nightmare? The military industrial complex is officially dominating space.

With the entry of 2026, the consideration of geopolitics as a central business concern has become a consistent reality.

When rich individuals are trusted more than public institutions, it is generally considered a characteristic of late-stage capitalism or plutocratic capitalism.

Countries are scrambling for critical minerals with an intensity that feels like a more sophisticated, and potentially more volatile, industrial revolution. In 2024-25, competition among great powers for these resources has reached its most active period in decades. Greenland and the recent U.S.–NATO tension symbolise this well. Countries are ready to stray from history to claim enough of what they need—minerals.

What made Carney's speech less scary was the fact that we know the new 'multiplex' world order—one defined by complex multipolar systems of cooperation—has been developing with prosperity in the backdrop of this rupture.

Next month will mark the fourth year of the Russian invasion of Ukraine. In recent months, much discussion has focused on the current world order.

One could define each period in history by its geopolitical conditions. By what makes each act by a state or empire possible, what conditions of the period allow monumental acts of foreign policy to be executed.