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His chief aide was the first to speak. “To state the obvious, this is a game-changer, Minister. China’s demands, and willingness to back them with such extreme measures, signals...

“The planets aligned the moment the Russians failed to take Ukraine quickly in 2022. The surprising resistance by the Ukrainians has caused Russia to become wholly dependent on...

This excerpt takes place after the major decisions have already been made, when actors begin to understand the limits of what they can still control.

July 18, 2030 – Moscow, The White House

Sergei could not believe how bad things had gone since the destruction of the convoy. Over the following days, news of the conflict had gone from good to grim.

"This cannot continue, Marshal," Putin snarled at his supreme commander. "The debacle over Lake Baikal and now a cyber-attack at the hands of the...

For most of modern history, geography was treated as something static. Mountains are internal, rivers will always flow, and borders are fixed by both. The resources of a geography are fixed in place waiting to be used or defended. Climate change has quietly undone these accepted “facts.”

Lake Baikal holds roughly twenty percent of the world’s unfrozen fresh water. For decades, that fact was more trivia than strategy. It sits in Russia’s Siberia, a remote region, locked behind climate,...

A second excerpt from a forthcoming novel.

His chief aide was the first to speak. “To state the obvious, this is a game-changer, Minister. China’s demands, and willingness to back them with such extreme measures, signals a new level of confidence. Or recklessness.”

Yoshi nodded slowly, steepling his fingers under his chin. “Recklessness or calculation? That’s the question. And how does this affect Japan? How does it affect the region?”

Yoshi’s second aide interjected. “Minister, if Russia...