https://uzumeri.com/blog/Independent professional writing on strategy, technology, trade, and the world.enSun, 26 Apr 2026 22:30:55 +0000https://uzumeri.com/blog/bombs-dont-bow.htmlA century of aerial bombardment campaigns says the same thing — you cannot bomb a country into submission when your demands threaten its existence.Sun, 26 Apr 2026 00:00:00 +0000https://uzumeri.com/blog/bombs-dont-bow.htmlstrategyopiniontradehttps://uzumeri.com/blog/fortress-america.htmlThe United States built the postwar free-trade order. Now it is dismantling its own creation — while the rest of the world races to liberalize without it.Sun, 26 Apr 2026 00:00:00 +0000https://uzumeri.com/blog/fortress-america.htmltradestrategyopinionhttps://uzumeri.com/blog/the-slow-wreck.htmlWhen feedback is delayed, the connection between cause and consequence disappears — and leaders keep making decisions as if the damage isn't real.Sun, 26 Apr 2026 00:00:00 +0000https://uzumeri.com/blog/the-slow-wreck.htmlstrategytradeopinionhttps://uzumeri.com/blog/hegemons-middle-powers-ai.htmlAn exploration of how AI-driven market engineering allows decentralized networks of Middle Powers to bypass the centralized hubs of traditional Hegemons.Wed, 18 Mar 2026 00:00:00 +0000https://uzumeri.com/blog/hegemons-middle-powers-ai.htmlstrategyaitradetechnologyhttps://uzumeri.com/blog/seventy-years-of-trust.htmlThe United States spent seventy years building the most powerful alliance network in human history. Donald Trump has dismantled it in one year — and the real damage isn't to treaties, it's to trust.Mon, 16 Mar 2026 00:00:00 +0000https://uzumeri.com/blog/seventy-years-of-trust.htmlopiniontradestrategycanadahttps://uzumeri.com/blog/trade-surpluses.htmlThe new U.S. trade policy treats product surpluses as market abuse, reflecting a fundamental misunderstanding of why trade has existed for thousands of years.Sun, 15 Mar 2026 00:00:00 +0000https://uzumeri.com/blog/trade-surpluses.htmltradeopinionstrategy