The Rift
Giacomo LagonaIndependent geopolitical analysis from Italy
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Room 9582
To announce the investigation he had chased for years, Kash Patel chose Joe Rogan’s podcast over a court filing. In a black hoodie, cigar lit, in June 2025 he described finding a secret room inside FBI headquarters, full of documents a caba...
Washington's StratCom Surrender
On 16 April 2025 Marco Rubio chose a friendly broadcaster to announce the closure of a small office inside the State Department. It was called R/FIMI, the unit tasked with countering information manipulation and interference originating abr...
Trump powers down the anti-Russia cyber task force
In the spring of 2018 the first Trump administration assembled a small joint task force inside the National Security Agency and U.S. Cyber Command and called it the Russia Small Group. It had one purpose: to keep the Internet Research Agenc...
Xi Sprang the Thucydides Trap — on America
At the Beijing summit of 14 May, Xi Jinping invoked the “Thucydides Trap” before the American president— as he had done for twelve years. What changed was not the citation. It was the American answer.
Editor’s note: This version cor...
The Price of Coercion: How Hormuz Is Redrawing the Asian Map
On April 13, 2026, the Sunday Guardian, a New Delhi-based newspaper, published the contents of a leaked Indonesian defence document. The document described an American proposal for “blanket” access to Indonesian airspace, submitted by Washi...
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Sono Giacomo Lagona. Mi occupo di geopolitica e politica americana. Dopo “Il ritorno di Donald Trump alla Casa Bianca”, il 19 dicembre è uscito “Il decennio che ha rotto il mondo”, dedicato alle faglie dell’ordine globale.
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