Briefings. Notes. Clues.

Because diplomacy rarely leaves fingerprints
but always leaves traces.

Is it a New World, or is it just a New Angle?

When we last looked around in January, the second inauguration of Donald Trump already seemed like a significant geopolitical tremor.

The Hidden Costs of Green Technologies

The energy transition is no longer a future vision but a widely accepted necessity. Electric vehicles, wind power, solar panels – the instruments of transformation are already in place. Yet even as the direction is

Ten Years Later: Rise of the Robots Revisited

Ten years after Rise of the Robots, we revisit Martin Ford’s bold predictions about automation, AI, and the end of work. What came true, what didn’t — and why the slow collapse of the middle

DiplomacyBites – because diplomacy often bites.

I’ve spent decades in the foreign service. Sat through the briefings. Attended the summits. Listened to the speeches. Written some of them. Watched governments pretend, collapse, reinvent themselves, and repeat the cycle—always with a slogan