Kamil Askerkhanov

Kamil Askerkhanov23.09.2026

As America’s midterm elections draw closer, the familiar numbers game is already underway. There is no point denying what the polls say: several national surveys do, in fact, show Democrats with an advantage. But the national generic ballot is not an election result. The House is decided across 435 individual congressional districts. The Senate is […]

Kamil Askerkhanov15.09.2026

On September 8, Britain’s Ministry of Defense told Parliament that the new nuclear-powered attack submarine HMS Agamemnon was completing the final stage of its sea trials and would proceed to further trials after being handed over to the Royal Navy. The name, however, was not chosen yesterday. The decision was made back in 2013 — […]

Kamil Askerkhanov08.09.2026

The Economist recently published a timely warning: America’s sovereign debt is massive, but Europe faces the true existential crisis. The most revealing aspect of this predicament, however, is not the raw figures. It is the question of why the structural cracks in the European architecture are suddenly erupting into the open right now. The underlying […]

Kamil Askerkhanov04.09.2026

We have grown too accustomed to measuring success by headline-grabbing agreements, new currencies, or yet another “anti-dollar” bank. But the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation was conceived primarily as a Eurasian security architecture—and that core function is once again taking center stage. As the old model of globalisation fractures, familiar supply chains are beginning to fray. Maritime […]

Kamil Askerkhanov02.09.2026

Perhaps the most interesting question about artificial intelligence today is not what it can do, but how those in power intend to govern a system that is gradually beginning to make decisions in place of the people they appointed to make them. That last point deserves closer attention. For the problem of AI ultimately has […]

Kamil Askerkhanov26.08.2026

How Britain Lost the Seas — and Why History May Be Repeating Itself? There is one aspect of the history of the British Empire that is often viewed somewhat incorrectly. The conventional story is that Britain lost its status as the world’s leading empire after the Second World War because the war had exhausted the […]

Kamil Askerkhanov23.08.2026

The farther the story of Israel’s strikes in Syria unfolds, the less it looks like a conventional contest for influence. Israel has, in effect, drawn a line for Turkey: This is as far as Ankara can go. The latest strike on the Abu Duhur air base in northern Syria, coming hours after a Turkish delegation […]

Kamil Askerkhanov15.08.2026

The EIA released some very interesting data yesterday. U.S. commercial crude inventories surged by 17.4 million barrels, reaching 424.4 million. The American Petroleum Institute had reported a 9.1 million-barrel increase the day before—already an unusually large move. But the real story emerges when you look beyond a single inventory number and follow the physical barrels. […]

Kamil Askerkhanov08.08.2026

Several developments reported today are worth considering together. China is beginning to move larger volumes of physical gold from London to Hong Kong. At the same time, Hong Kong has launched a centralized gold-clearing and settlement system, Delivery Connect with the Shanghai Gold Exchange, and plans to expand its storage capacity to roughly 2,000 metric […]

Kamil Askerkhanov18.07.2026

Iranian Oil Minister Mohsen Paknejad stated that the main parameters of an agreement with Russia have already been finalized. The project envisages the supply of up to 55 billion cubic meters of Russian gas annually through Azerbaijani territory. In my view, these statements deserve far more attention than they have received. Taken separately, they appear […]

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America’s Election Talk

Royal Navy and Trojan War Heros

Who Will Inherit Old Europe’s Tab?

The SCO Summit Was Far from Fruitless

AI and Power

Shipyards Matter More Than Aircraft Carriers

Turkey and Israel: Is a Collision Becoming Inevitable?

Where Is All That American Oil Really Going?

Gold Is Moving Back Into the Settlement System

Eurasian Energy Corridor

Herbert Wells at 160: The Man Who Imagined the 20th Century

Nomophobia And How to Help Yourself

Martin Luther is the Charismatic Leader of the Printing Age

America’s Election Talk