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2 weeks ago | greatpower.us | Molly McKew

In the coming days, we’re going to hear a lot about lines between order and chaos. But a lot of these lines will not be between anything — they are just lines toward different types of accelerating chaos. Chaos is disordered and in that sense it can be frightening — but it can also be an opportunity for redefining systems.

3 weeks ago | greatpower.us | Molly McKew

There’s a Japanese manga/anime series, Berserk, that is particularly popular among younger members of the Ukrainian armed forces. Like all such things, the plot is complex, but the basics are pretty straightforward: a warrior, changed by incalculable loss, continues to fight against the idea of fate, or that he can’t shape his own destiny against much greater forces.

Mar 7, 2025 | greatpower.us | Molly McKew

I met up with some friends from the before times — from a core group of conservative think tankers that was together in the Iraq war days. Of the original group, many went on to Hill and government jobs, joined various military reserves forces, maybe then on to foundations or corporations, though some are still/back in think tanks — in short, a typical DC policy career cross section, though the DC we “grew up” in is no more. I’m the anomaly in the group.

Jan 26, 2025 | greatpower.us | Gabrielius Landsbergis |Molly McKew

Great Power is pleased to bring you this guest post from Gabrielius Landsbergis, the Foreign Minister of Lithuania. Landsbergis took the post of foreign minister just over a year ago, in December 2020.

Jan 26, 2025 | greatpower.us | Molly McKew

Kyiv, UkraineIn Kyiv, the cadence of the loss drowns in liminality. Funerals happen among weddings and birthdays, the living and the dead share phone books and streets, war and regular life are like the lit windows of commuter trains passing in opposite directions in the night. “Maybe it seems strange,” says a friend briefly in Kyiv before his next rotation back to the front. We’re sitting in an ice cream shop that feels like early summer in absolutely any European city.