Chukotka is Russia’s far northeast—bigger than Texas, ~47k people, no road/rail link to the rest of Russia, winters that last most of the year, and ghost towns buried in snow. It’s also loaded with gold + minerals. www.ryanjhite.com/2026/01/26/c...

The world’s most isolated towns don’t survive because they’re efficient. They survive because people still choose them. But for how long? www.ryanjhite.com/2026/01/25/l...

The UAE’s proxy network just collapsed—Yemen fell back to Saudi-backed forces, Sudan supply lines were cut, Somalia turned hostile, and Libya hedged. This wasn’t an accident. It was coordinated regional pushback. www.ryanjhite.com/2026/01/20/t...

Dharavi houses up to a million people in one square mile and generates over $1B a year. Now it’s being redeveloped. Progress—or erasure? www.ryanjhite.com/2026/01/20/d...

Greenland is strategic. A U.S. invasion is unnecessary. Washington already has near-total military freedom there—without breaking NATO. www.ryanjhite.com/2026/01/20/t...

El Salvador didn’t just reduce crime — it crushed it. From 138 murders per 100,000 people to near zero. But the price may redefine democracy itself. www.ryanjhite.com/2026/01/13/e...

Maduro is gone. That doesn’t mean Venezuela is stable. The real fight is over oil, the military, and who controls what comes next. America’s “victory” may be the start of a far more dangerous phase. www.ryanjhite.com/2026/01/13/v...

Trump vs Europe isn’t just a dispute. It’s a structural shift. The transatlantic alliance was a force multiplier for U.S. power — and breaking it may weaken America more than Europe. www.ryanjhite.com/2026/01/13/t...

Iran’s protests are no longer protests. They are a revolution — and it’s now or never. If this uprising collapses, the reprisals will be catastrophic. www.ryanjhite.com/2026/01/13/i...

The Gulf of California isn’t just a sea. It’s a baby ocean, a broken delta, and a strategic choke point that could reshape North American trade. www.ryanjhite.com/2026/01/13/t...

Seattle wasn’t built. It was engineered. Hills erased. Rivers straightened. Lakes lowered. A city that literally reshaped nature to survive. www.ryanjhite.com/2026/01/11/s...

Wittenoom doesn’t exist anymore. Not because it was abandoned—but because it was too dangerous to leave standing. And its legacy is still killing people. 👇 Full story #Wittenoom #Asbestos #GhostTown #AustralianHistory www.ryanjhite.com/2026/01/03/w...

Explosions in Caracas at 1:00 a.m. Maduro captured by 4:21 a.m. In a 3-hour operation, the U.S. removed a sitting president—and shattered decades of assumptions about Latin America. This wasn’t just about Venezuela. #Venezuela #Geopolitics #Breaking www.ryanjhite.com/2026/01/03/t...

The post–Cold War order collapsed in 2025. In 2026, the new global rules will be tested — on battlefields, borders, and fragile states worldwide. From Ukraine to Taiwan, Sudan to Venezuela, these are the flashpoints that could define the year ahead. www.ryanjhite.com/2026/01/01/2...

Seychelles: Africa’s richest country, built by a socialist dictator who turned it into a tax haven. Yes, really. www.ryanjhite.com/2025/12/31/s...

2025 wasn’t loud like 1939—but it may prove just as consequential. www.patreon.com/posts/2025-y... open.substack.com/pub/ryanjhit...

China has one formal ally. One. So how does it project global power without alliances? By making itself indispensable. A deep dive into Beijing’s strategy 👇 www.ryanjhite.com/2025/12/30/d...

The Andes didn’t just shape South America. They broke it. Climate, civilization, borders, trade—nearly everything traces back to one massive mountain range. ⛰️🌎 www.ryanjhite.com/2025/12/30/h...

China powers the world’s clean tech—but at a devastating human cost. Hundreds of “cancer villages” linked to polluted rivers and rare earth waste tell a story of growth at any price. And it was all preventable. www.ryanjhite.com/2025/12/29/c...

2025 was sold as a year of peace. Instead, it became a year of ignored wars—from Sudan to Haiti to Papua. Here are the 11 conflicts that burned while the world looked away. www.patreon.com/posts/11-mos... open.substack.com/pub/ryanjhit...

In 1933, the USSR dumped 6,000 people on an empty Siberian island. No food. No shelter. Armed guards. Within weeks, cannibalism was widespread. Nazino Island wasn’t an accident — it was a system failure with a body count. www.ryanjhite.com/2025/12/25/n...

Venezuela’s collapse didn’t start with U.S. sanctions. It began with oil dependency, institutional decay, and years of disputed elections. Now, with U.S. warships and jets nearby, the crisis is entering a dangerous new phase. Here’s how it all unraveled. www.ryanjhite.com/2025/12/25/v...

New Guinea is nearly the size of Greenland, holds tropical glaciers, over 1,000 languages, and some of the last unexplored regions on Earth. In a mapped world, it remains one of the final unknowns. www.ryanjhite.com/2025/12/24/n...

Despite rising tensions, a China–Japan war makes no strategic sense for either side. Demographics, economics, alliances, and Taiwan all point toward restraint. www.patreon.com/posts/why-ch... open.substack.com/pub/ryanjhit...

The U.S. owns a chain of islands near Asia that most Americans don’t know exist. They launched the atomic age, sit beside the deepest place on Earth, and are now being rebuilt for future war. Here’s why the Northern Mariana Islands matter. 🌍 www.ryanjhite.com/2025/12/24/w...

Trump’s new National Security Strategy ends the liberal era. No democracy promotion. No unconditional alliances. No illusions. Only power, interest, and survival. This isn’t reforming the system. It’s tearing it down. www.ryanjhite.com/2025/12/21/w...

Christianity in America declined for 50 years. Then the collapse stalled. Why? Politics. Identity. Chaos. And a generation searching for meaning. Here’s what really happened. www.ryanjhite.com/2025/12/21/w...

Why is France’s giant Mediterranean island almost empty? Corsica has insane mountains, hostile coasts, a history of conquest, and a culture that rejects outside influence. It’s one of Europe’s biggest geographic mysteries. New blog now live. 🔗 www.ryanjhite.com/2025/12/10/w...

Yemen is collapsing—again. A UAE-backed separatist movement just seized huge parts of the east, including major oil fields and cities. The Yemeni government is unraveling, Saudi Arabia is alarmed, and the Houthis are watching. www.ryanjhite.com/2025/12/09/y...

Hong Kong didn’t collapse overnight. It was dismantled piece by piece — courts, elections, media, classrooms, civil society. Today the skyline shines, but the freedom is gone. www.ryanjhite.com/2025/12/09/h...

Europe looks united. But beneath the surface, the EU is facing the most dangerous convergence of crises in decades—war, stagnation, migration pressures, and political fragmentation. Analysts now warn: the EU's collapse is no longer unthinkable. www.ryanjhite.com/2025/12/09/e...

Venezuela had the world’s largest oil reserves and one of the richest economies. Today it faces hyperinflation, mass migration, and an authoritarian regime. Its collapse is one of the most severe in modern history—and the crisis still isn’t over. www.ryanjhite.com/2025/12/02/v...

Why does a 1,000-km stretch of Australian coastline have ZERO cities? The answer: the Nullarbor, the Bunda Cliffs, the Roaring 40s, and raw geography that refuses to be tamed. 🌏🇦🇺 www.ryanjhite.com/2025/12/02/t...

Sudan is facing the largest humanitarian crisis on Earth — and the world is barely paying attention. • 500,000+ dead • 15 million displaced • Genocide in Darfur • Khartoum in ruins • A nation splitting apart www.ryanjhite.com/2025/11/30/s...

North Korea should have collapsed multiple times: • 1990s famine • Loss of Soviet support • Nearly total sanctions • Economic isolation Yet the dynasty remains in power — and stronger than at any point in decades. Here’s why North Korea doesn’t fall. www.ryanjhite.com/2025/11/30/n...

Russia keeps repeating the same message: Ukraine is planning a false flag. Drones, cyberattacks, airspace violations—Europe is entering “Phase Zero,” and NATO’s unity is the real target. #Russia #NATO #Ukraine #FalseFlag www.ryanjhite.com/2025/11/29/f...

New Mexico is huge—but almost nobody moves there. While Texas, Arizona & Colorado boom, New Mexico’s growth is nearly flat. The reason? A mix of altitude, water scarcity, education issues & a fragile economy. #NewMexico #Geography #Population www.ryanjhite.com/2025/11/29/w...

The illegal arms trade is tiny — but fuels most global gun violence. Cartels → Africa militias → Middle East proxies → Asian insurgents → Europe’s gangs. Here’s how it REALLY works. Full article on the blog. #ArmsTrade #Crime #Geopolitics www.ryanjhite.com/2025/11/29/i...

A CIA spy satellite once photographed a tiny town in Colorado as if it were a Soviet missile base. The town? Uravan. Its uranium helped build the Hiroshima bomb — and the Cold War arsenal that followed. Then, in the 1980s, it was wiped off the map. The full story ⬇️ www.ryanjhite.com/2025/11/29/u...

East Hastings is four blocks that Vancouver doesn’t put on postcards. Tents. Overdoses. Sirens. Memorials to the dead. Right beside multimillion-dollar condos. How did Canada’s “most livable city” produce North America’s worst opioid zone? The full story: www.ryanjhite.com/2025/11/29/t...

Russia wanted to rebuild an empire. Instead, it became dependent on one. China now supplies: • 90% of Russia’s microchips • 70% of its CNC machines • Most dual-use tech feeding the war Is Russia becoming China’s vassal? New deep-dive out now. 🔗 www.ryanjhite.com/2025/11/29/i...

A viral “massacre” image from Sudan turned out to be fake. But the REAL massacre — in El Fasher — may be the deadliest atrocity of the 21st century. Here’s what actually happened, and why almost no one is talking about it. 👇 www.ryanjhite.com/2025/11/29/t...

Iraq went from one of the richest Arab nations to one of the most unstable—and the reasons go far beyond Saddam or the U.S. invasion. Here’s the real story of how geography, oil, authoritarianism, and war shattered the state. New blog post out now. 🇮🇶 www.ryanjhite.com/2025/11/24/w...

China built the largest mall on Earth. It opened in 2005… and immediately became a ghost town. Here’s how a 7-million-sq-ft mega-project failed before it ever lived. New post is live. 🏢 www.ryanjhite.com/2025/11/24/t...

Axios leaked a secret 28-point U.S. peace plan for the Russia–Ukraine war. Europe rewrote half the proposal. Ukraine is under pressure. Moscow sees an opening. This could be the biggest diplomatic shift of the war. New post is live. www.ryanjhite.com/2025/11/24/i...

Saudi Arabia & Pakistan just signed a mutual defense pact — and the ripple effects are massive. Nuclear ambiguity. Talk of an “Islamic NATO.” India nervous. China quietly pleased. Israel watching closely. Full breakdown ⬇️ www.ryanjhite.com/2025/11/23/s...

Ukraine’s biggest wartime corruption scandal just detonated. 💰 Millions siphoned from the energy grid ⚡ Money meant for winter repairs vanished 🏛️ Zelensky allies implicated This is now an existential threat to Ukraine’s war effort. Full analysis ⬇️ www.ryanjhite.com/2025/11/23/u...

The U.S. just assembled its largest Caribbean force since 1989: 🇺🇸 USS Gerald R. Ford 🇺🇸 8 warships 🇺🇸 10,000 troops Officially: “narco-terrorists.” Unofficially: pressure to remove Maduro. A bluff? Or the prelude to something bigger? Full breakdown ↓ www.ryanjhite.com/2025/11/22/a...

Sudan’s genocide didn’t happen in isolation. Evidence shows the UAE has supplied weapons, drones, money, and mercenaries to the RSF — the militia behind the massacres in Darfur. Here’s what’s really happening 👇 www.ryanjhite.com/2025/11/22/t...

Dubai wasn’t built on oil. It was built on trade, risk, and reinvention. From a fishing village → to gold-smuggling hub → to a global megacity. Ports, free zones, and sheer ambition made it the Middle East’s richest city. Full breakdown 👇 www.ryanjhite.com/2025/11/22/d...