Laura Ruggeri's Substack
Laura RuggeriReformed academic writing about hybrid warfare and The Hegemon's Last Stand. Usually from my balcony in Hong Kong.
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"No Kings" and MAGA: Turf Wars on the Titanic’s Deck
The No Kings protests, which began last June to coincide with Donald Trump’s birthday and a U.S. Army 250th anniversary military parade in Washington, have drawn millions of participants, not only in the United States but more recently in s...
Azerbaijan: A Pawn on the West’s Chessboard?
In The Grand Chessboard, Zbigniew Brzezinski, a major influence on U.S. foreign policy, referred to Azerbaijan as “the vitally important 'cork' in the bottle containing the riches of the Caspian Sea basin and Central Asia.”1 His metaphor, l...
Kiev refuses to bring home its dead soldiers. Where is Ukraine’s Antigone?
On 2 June 2025, during talks in Istanbul, Russia and Ukraine agreed to exchange prisoners of war and the bodies of fallen soldiers in accordance with the Geneva Conventions, whose Article 17 stipulates that belligerents must ensure that the...
The Ghost in the Machine. Artificial Intelligence and the Spectral Ontology of Value
Last February, I publicly questioned the existence of Jianwei Xun, an author who published a best-selling, critically acclaimed book titled Hypnocracy: Trump, Musk and the New Architecture of Reality. On his website and on academia.org — th...
The MAGA Effect on US-China relations
Four years ago, when the Biden administration took office, I mapped out the likely trajectory of its future policy toward China in a lengthy article titled Hybrid War on China that was subsequently published in a Chinese news outlet. I argu...
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Researcher, reluctant academic, in Hong Kong since 1997. In recent years I have been investigating hybrid warfare and geopolitical conflicts. Latest book "Hong Kong a Fuoco. Anatomia di una rivoluzione colorata" (2026) https://t.me/LauraRuHK
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