Brian Moscioni is a researcher at Harvard Kennedy School’s Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs. He received his Master of Public Administration from the Harvard Kennedy School of Government and Master of International Development from the Geneva Graduate Institute (IHEID). Previously, Brian served in the US Navy as a fighter pilot and worked with Goldman Sachs.
Brian Moscioni is a researcher at Harvard Kennedy School’s Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs. He received his Master of Public Administration from the Harvard Kennedy School of Government and Master of International Development from the Geneva Graduate Institute (IHEID). Previously, Brian served in the US Navy as a fighter pilot and worked with Goldman Sachs.
The Epstein case is no longer just about one predator. It’s about whether Western institutions can investigate power honestly — or whether wealth, influence, and secrecy will always outrun accountability.
Four years on, Ukraine’s war drags across 1,200 km, cities in ruins and millions displaced. Russia entrenched, Kyiv defiant, the West divided—how long can a war of attrition outlast political will before exhaustion decides the peace?
The map isn’t the war. Ukraine is fighting systems—power grids, drones, attrition. Russia leads this phase by compounding pressure, not breakthroughs. Outcome still contested, but arithmetic, not headlines, is deciding January 2026.
In icy Greenland, great-power politics thaw old colonial instincts. As Washington talks force, Nuuk answers identity: not American, not Danish—Greenlandic. The Arctic’s “trillion-dollar ocean” risks reviving the law of the jungle.
Poland is widening its Asia-Pacific outreach through resilience diplomacy, defence partnerships, and economic cooperation, reflecting a broader EU middle-power push to adapt to shifting geopolitics and strategic uncertainty.
As Europe rearms, the key question looms: ballistic or cruise missiles? Ukraine’s FP-5 shows the logic—cost-effective, precise, and scalable. For Europe, cruise may be the pragmatic path to real deterrence.
Turkey’s “Anchor State” strategy turns ambiguity into balance. In the Black Sea, Ankara sustains NATO’s deterrence and U.S. credibility—not through dominance, but disciplined realism. Balance, not force, now defines power.
A quiet rebellion brews in rural Spain’s Sierra de Gata, where villagers resist rare-earth mining. Behind it lies Europe’s green ambitions, energy insecurity, and the clash between progress and preservation.
Cyprus’s clean energy paradox as solar adoption booms but weak grid and no storage force record curtailment. Can the island turn wasted power into leadership in Europe’s energy transition?
Trump in Alaska with Putin, then in DC with Zelenskyy: Ukraine peace talks look less about borders, more about minerals. Deals, not principles, shape the war’s future.
BRICS+ offers vast potential in trade, technology and local currency cooperation, but geopolitical rivalries and divergent strategic priorities will shape whether it emerges as a cohesive force or remains a loose coalition.
BRICS may not end dollar dominance, but it is accelerating a shift toward a more multipolar financial order where currencies, influence, and economic power are becoming increasingly contested.
Japan and South Korea can no longer afford fragmented security policies. In a Taiwan-Korea dual contingency, coordination is no longer strategic preference, but the foundation of deterrence and regional stability.
As Gulf tensions rise, Pakistan has quietly become the channel neither Washington nor Tehran can afford to lose. Islamabad’s diplomacy is no longer reactive; it is positioning itself at the center of crisis management.
The Epstein case is no longer just about one predator. It’s about whether Western institutions can investigate power honestly — or whether wealth, influence, and secrecy will always outrun accountability.
