Kamil Askerkhanov

Kamil Askerkhanov13.10.2026

The past few days’ events make it worth returning to a concept I first outlined back in 2023: Europe’s energy ring-fencing. What we may now be seeing is the transition to a new stage. After restricting access to energy supplies, the battle appears to be shifting toward control over their eventual return to the European […]

Kamil Askerkhanov02.10.2026

What is happening in France has already grown into something larger than yet another confrontation between high-school and university students and the education authorities. The protests began with demands that were both familiar and readily understandable: teacher shortages, overcrowded classrooms, and deteriorating school infrastructure. Yet within days, the unrest spread across the country and began […]

Kamil Askerkhanov29.09.2026

Bitcoin has always had a useful habit: it makes the supposedly virtual economy look stubbornly physical. JPMorgan recently estimated the cryptocurrency’s average production cost at roughly $85,000. According to The Block, citing the bank’s analysts, Bitcoin has spent around 280 days below that level. A sustained move above it could ease pressure on miners forced […]

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 […]

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Who Powers Europe?

France Is Burning. But Who Stands to Gain?

The Digital Economy Is Running Into the Physical World

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?

Who Powers Europe?

A Thaw Too Late?

Here’s How to Reduce the Existential Risks if There’s No Other Way

Pay to Play to Play to Pay: How the system now works