Artillery shells are not particularly complicated munitions: an HF-1 steel casing containing IMX-104 or TNT explosive, a fuse, and a propellant charge. But after more than two years of attempting to scale up production to supply Ukraine’s defensive line, the world’s largest economy has come nowhere close to meeting the monthly requirement: 360,000 rounds…
Read MoreApril 2023 marked the emergence of a “New Washington Consensus,” according to President Biden’s national security advisor, Jake Sullivan, who coined the term in a much discussed speech at the Brookings Institution. His argument in brief: events have forced proponents of the original “Washington Consensus”—which he defined as the U.S.-led order that served as the global economy’s foundation since the Second World War—to reexamine its underlying policy assumptions. Recent years, Sullivan suggested, “revealed cracks in those foundations,” particularly the global financial crisis, the Covid-19 pandemic, climate disasters, and the Russian invasion of Ukraine…
Read MoreAmerican government is crippled, but not for the reasons most people think. Hopeful talk of an imminent American political realignment too often elides its premise: that an alignment exists to be rearranged. Of course, this assumption holds for the electoral aspects of American politics. Running on that endlessly renewable energy that aims not so much…
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