The damage to an oil pipeline at Russia’s Baltic port of Primorsk fits into a larger pattern that is becoming harder to ignore. Energy infrastructure is no longer treated merely as economic plumbing. It is being targeted, defended, insured, and narrated as strategic terrain. Ports, pipelines, export terminals, refineries, storage sites, and shipping routes now sit inside the … [Read more...] about Primorsk and the Expanding Logic of Energy Infrastructure Warfare
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Ukraine’s Better Frontline Moment Still Does Not Equal Strategic Relief
President Volodymyr Zelenskiy saying the frontline situation is the best it has been in the last 10 months is clearly intended to convey momentum, and perhaps deservedly so. But even a better operational moment should not be mistaken for strategic relief. Wars like this do not move in clean upward lines. They move through temporary stabilization, local advantage, resource … [Read more...] about Ukraine’s Better Frontline Moment Still Does Not Equal Strategic Relief