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Energy, geopolitics, and markets shaped by physical and economic reality. Written by an ex-big-law attorney (PhD). Stop getting it secondhand.
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Winter's Wedge (opens the original)
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In 1942, Leuna became the site of the world’s first large-scale plant to produce one of the most important industrial chemical intermediates: caprolactam. It’s the chemical precursor to nylon 6, which ends up in a wide range of products like tire cords, industrial plastics, and the carpet under your feet. After producing caprolactam through the rest of WWII, through four decades of East German central planning, and through reunification and privatization after 1990, the company running the plant
Bring Your Own Power (opens the original)
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In early September, 5.8 terabytes of confidential data belonging to Berlin’s city administration were stolen. The hacking group Rhysida used a phishing attack to gain access to the data and demanded a ransom of 30 bitcoin—about €2 million—to keep it offline. Berlin’s governing mayor, Kai Wegner, refused to be blackmailed and the data went up days later.Coincidentally, the leak occurred in the same weeks as a string of unresolved physical attacks on German power substations. The suspect is a dome
Autosterben (opens the original)
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Few terms may be as underappreciated in how they radically shape our world as one of the most boring ones: “statistic.” Invented in 1748 by German scholar Gottfried Achenwall, it wasn’t just about the systematic collection of numerical data. In his book “Preparation for the Science of the State” (Vorbereitung zur Staatswissenschaft), Achenwall created a tool meant to reduce something too vast for any official to comprehend into a figure a government could act on.One of the earliest uses of stati
Norway on the Mediterranean (opens the original)
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Few African states have an influence on Europe on so many layers as Libya. The country controls the migration routes into Italy, the primary departure point for the Central Mediterranean crossing. Last year's crisis-level migrant surge—which Western reporting tied to Russia—has faded from most people's memory, but the leverage point still exists. Strategically, the country is meaningful because its coastline lies directly across the central Mediterranean from Sicily and Malta, sitting astride th
Radiant Gambit (opens the original)
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Ukraine’s drone strategy is to a large extent attributed to Mykhailo Fedorov, the recently ousted defense minister. Remarkably, 35-year-old Fedorov—the country’s youngest minister when he became Minister of Digital Transformation in 2019—has no military background. As a marketing specialist, he was brought in by President Zelensky to run the social media campaign that helped him surge to a landslide victory in April 2019.The drone strategy has in recent weeks been portrayed in the Western press
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