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The CANVAS Framework: Battling The Toolkits

What started as fighting a dictator in Serbia with OTPOR movement, became a subversive framework. That is used for such movements across the world, including in India with CJP. Laughtivism and comedy is part of that. Sharing ways to battle it.

By Desh Kapoor

/ 26 Jul 2026

The CANVAS Framework: Battling The Toolkits

The World Between Orders

The post-Cold War order is fading, but the next world order has yet to emerge. As America, China, Europe, and Russia reposition for an uncertain future, old assumptions are collapsing. This is the story of borrowed power, strategic decline, rising rivals, and a world caught between eras.

By Desh Kapoor

/ 31 May 2026

Rubio's Kolkata Gambit: The Missionary-Intelligence Complex Comes for India

For eighty years, the cross and the agency have traveled together. Missionaries mapped territories, pacified populations, and laundered political operations as charity. When India asks where was the money used, Washington sends a Secretary of State to make the question stop.

By Desh Kapoor

/ 24 May 2026

Rubio's Kolkata Gambit: The Missionary-Intelligence Complex Comes for India

Trump in China and the Story of the Shorter Chair

When Trump flew to Beijing carrying an unwinnable war, rising fuel prices, and a closed strait he could not reopen alone, Xi gave him pageantry with a twist. Nothing was signed. Yet, perhaps everything was decided.

By Desh Kapoor

/ 17 May 2026

Trump in China and the Story of the Shorter Chair

Trump as the Global Sovereign?

The Hormuz closure wasn't a miscalculation — it was the missing piece. With maritime routes uninsurable and IMEC the last corridor standing, Trump has seized control of global trade infrastructure through a private governance body accountable to no one but its chairman for life.

By Desh Kapoor

/ 27 Apr 2026

Iran War and the Thucydides Trap

Applying Graham Allison's Thucydides Trap to the 2026 Iran war. Blending asymmetric war economics, $3T market distortions, alliance fractures, and revealing the deeper US-China power struggle beneath the conflict.

By Desh Kapoor

/ 24 Mar 2026

MAGA’s Civil War: How the Right’s Israel Split Is Rewiring Conservatism Globally

There is a MAGA civil was raging. Clash over what United States really ought to be. As it evolves, US is changing its role in the global scenario. We are examining the scenario.

By Desh Kapoor

/ 15 Mar 2026

MAGA’s Civil War: How the Right’s Israel Split Is Rewiring Conservatism Globally

The Long Game: How America Built Its Greatest Rival

What started as a geopolitical stratagem during the Cold War of propping an adversary for their adversary (USSR), US create the powerhouse called China. Today China outcompetes US in every strategic technology. How did this happen?

By Desh Kapoor

/ 8 Mar 2026

The Long Game: How America Built Its Greatest Rival

Who is the Real Zohran Mamdani?

Mamdani stands as the polished face of a darker alliance — Soros’s globalist capital, Islamist networks with political ambitions, and CCP’s influence machinery. Preaching justice while fed by power, he mirrors the hypocrisy of an age where revolution is funded by the architects of control.

By Desh Kapoor

/ 9 Nov 2025

The Second Lady and the Last Lesson: How Faith Became America’s Last Weapon

In an age where faith has turned into a weapon and pluralism into threat, the story of JD and Usha Vance reveals America’s deeper crisis—a nation trapped between belief and power, preaching tolerance yet fearing the mirror of its own contradictions.

By Desh Kapoor

/ 2 Nov 2025

The Second Lady and the Last Lesson: How Faith Became America’s Last Weapon

The End of American Command and the Rise of Chinese Control

China is replacing U.S. power not through war but through control of supply chains, industry, finance, and quantum tech. America still speaks like a hegemon, but China now controls the structure of power. The U.S. commands by narrative; China governs by capability.

By Desh Kapoor

/ 19 Oct 2025

The End of American Command and the Rise of Chinese Control

Profits & Paradoxes: The Two-Faced Geopolitics of Trump

Trump’s tariffs, private deals, and warm ties with rivals both challenge the entrenched ‘Deep State’ and enrich him and friends while reshaping alliances, stirring chaos and profit. A deep, hard-hitting look at power, paranoia, and paradox in geopolitics.

By Desh Kapoor

/ 21 Sep 2025

Profits & Paradoxes: The Two-Faced Geopolitics of Trump