Ken Philips

In recent years, much has been written about the decline of American power, the erosion of dollar dominance, and the rise of a multipolar world in which resources, rather than institutions, once again determine strategic outcomes. Against this backdrop, Venezuela re-emerges not as a failed state on the margins of global affairs, but as a country whose geology alone gives it outsized geopolitical relevance. At the center of this reassessment lies a simple but powerful idea: control over...

On 12 December 2025, a group of countries gathered in Washington, D.C. to sign a declaration few people outside policy circles noticed. There were no flags on podiums, no grand communiqués, no adversaries named. Yet what emerged from that meeting may end up shaping the global technology landscape more durably than many treaties that came before it. The declaration was called Pax Silica. The name sounded deliberately anodyne—almost academic. But behind it lay an idea both simple and...

The global aerospace and defense sector has entered what many investors increasingly view as a structurally supportive phase. Unlike past cycles driven purely by geopolitics or commercial aviation booms, today’s environment combines multiple long-duration forces: rising defense budgets, sustained geopolitical tension, the normalization of higher interest rates, and a multi-year recovery in commercial aerospace. Against this backdrop, U.S.-listed aerospace and defense equities have attracted...