We do not cover the day-to-day; we document the pulse of civilization.
The pieces that move empires, treaties, and conflicts that redefine borders.
Five closed circuits that run through every country on Earth (money, energy, food, industry and people), traced jump by jump. Each jump names the instrument that makes it move and the specific event that would cut it. Where no cut can be named, there was no relationship, only trade.
Countries behave like businesses, and businesses do not need to like each other to agree. What follows is the same world run twice, once towards war and once towards peace, with the real magnitudes of every channel through which one country's decision arrives in another country's kitchen.