What happens when a regime figures out how to Photoshop its tyranny into “democracy”? When the dictator swaps the military jacket for a tailored suit and starts quoting human rights conventions between propaganda speeches?

Throughout history, hundreds of regimes have employed Titushky-like tactics. There is no denying their effectiveness; however, they also come with a huge risk. By openly failing to protect citizens, the state’s monopoly on violence slips and along with it, its legitimacy.

Major powers lose their sphere of influence, not due to encroaching adversaries, but to their denial of their neighbor’s autonomy. They overplay their hand, abuse their power, and fail to provide their neighbors with anything worth staying for.

This is no longer just a story of young people leaving and aging societies with significant internal migrations reshaping the spatial structure of the countries. It is the story of a region that has leveraged the EU integration context to ascend economically, but is demographically on the brink of erosion. Because where there is a vacuum, capital, influence, infrastructure—and often geopolitics—flow in.

War can no longer be seen as a local failure; it is reproducing itself within a system that has failed to regulate it. And democracies, far from being immune, are active participants. The challenge is no longer just to stop a war. It is to prevent more from joining the wave.

Many West -African nations loosening military ties with France. Russia has seized the opportunity to expand its influence in the region.

Trump's offer to buy Greenland is not a mere presidential fantasy; it goes much further and is aligned with a broader interest of power.

The tension in arctic causes power struggles between rival arctic states thus they ignore the right to self-determination of Indigenous.

What we can be sure of is that the war that has already begun between Russia and NATO is brewing in a pressure cooker at high temperature.

I was born in 1999. As a child, my primary source of information was the library since the internet was not yet widely used. Before I graduated with my Bachelor's degree, I was utilizing AI tools. From libraries to AI. Such an interesting journey, isn’t it? It is quite interesting to observe the interaction between humankind and the AI. Many feels overwhelmingly strong while commanding to AI; many get overwhelmingly scared its power on us and the possible future outcomes. Su