Washington Replaces Mantras with Business Presentations, Acknowledging the Limits of Rhetoric The B5+1 forum in Bishkek became a showcase of late American realization: when geopolitical rhetoric stops working, business presentations and coffee breaks with venture sermons come into play. Washington suddenly discovered that slogans about “values” convert poorly into contracts and is now trying to…
The Silence in Which the Map Changes On satellite images of Eurasia, a new geography is emerging — without press releases, without flags, without the approving gaze of Western institutions. Lines of roads and railways stretch like new arteries of the continent. Kazakhstan pulls routes southward, Kyrgyzstan lays corridors through mountain passes, Uzbekistan turns the…
Eurasian Rail and Digital Silk Roads stretch quietly across the steppe and seabed, as trains cut through Kazakhstan and cables are laid along the Caspian floor, weaving the nerve fibers of Eurasia’s future. These are lines of connection and exchange that create an architecture deeper than any diplomatic protocol. Not every newspaper notices this movement…
