Regions
Every region we cover, each one a hub: who holds the leverage there, how the region is holding up, and the connections running through it to the rest of the map.
10 hubs · 10 with a considered read of region health · 0 not yet assessed
Energy as leverage, sanctions as the counter-move, and the limits of both. Where Russian power actually sits: long on energy and…
Broad power with one structural gap. Europe is strong on economy, diplomacy and soft power, short on energy — and every live…
The region that sets the price of everything else, now fighting the war the rest of this map runs downstream of. When the Strait…
Where the manufacturing surplus is made and the technology fight is fought. Europe's sovereignty package is aimed here, the…
The corridor the sanctions rerouting runs through, and the clearest live test of whether Russian influence survives Russian…
North America is the acting side of two connections on the map — the sanctions chain, and the US–Iran war it is now fighting…
South America sits downstream of most crises on this map — a commodity supplier that turns other continents' shocks into export…
Africa is where the second-order costs of distant decisions land first — food prices set by other continents' wars, minerals…
India is the clearest live test of whether sanctions redirect trade rather than stop it — a buyer with the size to set terms and…
Australia sits on the supply side of two things the rest of this map is fighting over — gas and critical minerals — while its…
Ordered by how much of the work is done, not alphabetically. A hub listed here with nothing assessed is a hub we have opened and not yet earned — that is why it says so on the card rather than looking like the others.