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...

Nearly 80 million Japanese live inside one thin line across the country—the Taiheiyō Belt. Less than 10% of the land. 70% of the economy. One of the densest corridors on Earth. Here’s why → www.ryanjhite.com/2025/11/19/w...

An American chocolate empire built a utopian town in Cuba. A revolution tried to erase it. But the name “Hershey” still refuses to die. 🇨🇺🍫🚂 The unbelievable story → www.ryanjhite.com/2025/11/19/h...

Mexico is boiling. Gen Z protests erupt after a mayor is assassinated. 50+ cities. Tear gas. Shields. One Piece flags. Is this the start of something bigger? Full breakdown → www.ryanjhite.com/2025/11/19/m...

Mauritius might be the most successful African country you've never heard of. A tiny volcanic island with no natural resources became one of the continent’s richest democracies—and even has a fake “underwater waterfall” off its coast. www.ryanjhite.com/2025/11/18/m...

U.S. drones started blowing up wooden boats in the Caribbean. Then an aircraft carrier, Reaper drones, and F-35s showed up. This wasn’t about drug cartels. It was the opening move in a pressure campaign aimed at Venezuela. The full story 👇 www.ryanjhite.com/2025/11/18/d...

Two bombings. Two capitals. 24 hours. India, Pakistan, and Afghanistan are closer to war than at any point in 25 years. Terror networks are driving the escalation—and governments may no longer control what happens next. My full breakdown is live now. 🌏🔥 www.ryanjhite.com/2025/11/16/s...

China is crushing Germany’s auto industry. $230B in subsidies. Cheap EVs flooding Europe. Rare earth restrictions. A full-blown price war. This is the biggest industrial shift of the decade. New deep-dive: Car Wars. 🚗⚡ www.ryanjhite.com/2025/11/16/c...

Berlin isn’t unique because of the Wall. It’s unique because every era erased the last. Prussian capital → industrial boomtown → ruins → two cities → creative playground → polycentric green metropolis. #Berlin #History www.ryanjhite.com/2025/11/15/b...

Ecuador went from one of Latin America’s safest nations to a cartel war in under 5 years. Fragmented gangs, cartel influence, corrupt institutions, and a crackdown that backfired. This isn’t just crime — it’s an insurgency. #Ecuador #LatinAmerica www.ryanjhite.com/2025/11/15/e...

America’s housing crisis isn’t caused by a lack of homes. It’s caused by algorithmic price fixing, withheld supply, and distorted incentives. 6.5M empty homes. 750k homeless people. This isn’t a shortage — it’s a business model. #HousingCrisis www.ryanjhite.com/2025/11/15/a...

Streetlights glow over empty streets 1,900 km above Moscow. The government spends $7 million a year heating apartments no one lives in. Welcome to Vorkuta — the Arctic ghost city that refuses to die. ❄️ #Vorkuta #Russia #GhostCity #Arctic #History www.ryanjhite.com/2025/11/09/v...

North Korea’s economy grew 4% in 2024 — the fastest in years. How? 💣 Weapons to Russia 💻 Cyber thefts 🏗️ New factories 🇨🇳 Chinese trade The Hermit Kingdom is defying every prediction of collapse. #NorthKorea #Geopolitics #Economy www.ryanjhite.com/2025/11/09/n...

Europe is building a Drone Wall. A 4,000 km network of radars, jammers, and lasers to stop $1,000 Russian drones before they enter EU airspace. Because meeting cheap threats with million-dollar missiles isn’t defense—it’s bankruptcy. 🛰️ www.ryanjhite.com/2025/10/20/e...

If Russia invades NATO while China strikes Taiwan and North Korea attacks the South… Could the U.S. handle it? Analysts say the odds of this nightmare scenario are not zero. 🧭 Read more → open.substack.com/pub/ryanjhit... www.patreon.com/posts/unthin...

One year ago, Ahmed al-Shara was a wanted terrorist. Today, he’s Syria’s president—standing at the UN. From Idlib’s battlefields to global diplomacy, his rise marks a new chapter in Syria’s endless Game of Thrones. #Syria #Geopolitics #MiddleEast #History www.ryanjhite.com/2025/10/13/t...

Ukraine’s army is shrinking. Some battalions have fewer than 10 men left. Russia’s forces grow by 9,000 a month. The reason Ukraine’s still holding? Drones — and desperation. #Ukraine #Geopolitics #War #Military #Russia www.patreon.com/posts/ukrain... open.substack.com/pub/ryanjhit...

There’s an American island in the middle of the Pacific that you’ll almost certainly never visit. 🌴🇺🇸 Palmyra Atoll: isolated, pristine, and sealed off from the world. Here’s why it matters more than almost any other place on Earth. 🌊🦈 www.ryanjhite.com/2025/09/29/p...

This Sunday, Moldova votes. To Russia: it’s a chance to capture a country without firing a shot. To the EU: it’s a test of credibility. To the world: it’s a warning of what comes next. 🇲🇩 www.ryanjhite.com/2025/09/29/m...

AI needs 24/7 clean power. SMRs promise to build it like products, not megaprojects. China is sprinting. The US & Europe are scrambling. The new nuclear race just started. ⚡️☢️ www.ryanjhite.com/2025/09/29/t...

Congo’s “other war” is the one to watch. The ADF, tied to ISIS, is using the M23 fight as cover to raid, recruit, and spread. A collapse in the truce could give them the opening they need. #DRC #ADF #M23 www.ryanjhite.com/2025/09/29/t...

London ≈ 13% of the UK’s people → ~25% of its output. That imbalance wasn’t fate; it was infrastructure. Build corridors, metros, and missions outside the capital—or the map never changes. #London #UK #Inequality www.ryanjhite.com/2025/09/29/l...

The Black Sea is no longer Russia’s backyard. Ports, railways & airbases are redrawing Eurasia’s map. Georgia’s Anaklia port, NATO’s Romanian fortress & the Middle Corridor are reshaping power—while Russia scrambles to counter. 🌍 Full story: www.ryanjhite.com/2025/09/29/t...

Iran has 3M empty homes and a capital where rent jumped 85% in a year. Ghost cities like Pardis/Hashtgerd were built far from jobs, with missing utilities—while property became a currency hedge. When shelter becomes a bank, cities become ruins. Full story: www.ryanjhite.com/2025/09/29/t...

🇭🇹 Haiti is collapsing. 1.3M displaced 6M hungry Thousands murdered Hospitals burned Drone strikes killing children The gangs are the state now. Here’s how it happened → open.substack.com/pub/ryanjhit... www.patreon.com/posts/haitis...

Flint’s water crisis wasn’t a mystery—it was a map: old lead pipes + no corrosion control + a ‘temporary’ switch. 18 months of exposure, years of fallout. Fix it everywhere: replace lead lines, corrosion control. #Flint #Infrastructure #PublicHealth www.ryanjhite.com/2025/09/24/t...

U.S. destroyers, a cruiser, a sub, F-35s & a MEU are parked off Venezuela. Officially: counter-narcotics. Practically: leverage & strike options. The Caribbean’s short distances + high stakes = tiny missteps, consequences. #Venezuela #Caribbean #USMilitary www.ryanjhite.com/2025/09/24/t...

America leads the world in billion-dollar disasters. 🌪️🔥🌊 From Joplin’s tornado to California’s wildfires to Hurricane Katrina—billions spent, but is FEMA’s response system effective? New post: www.ryanjhite.com/2025/09/24/a...

The Gulf of Mexico isn’t just a gulf. 🌊 It’s an engine: Builds land with rivers Traps oil with salt domes Fuels hurricanes Warms Europe through the Gulf Stream New post: www.ryanjhite.com/2025/09/24/t...

Sept 10: Russian drones violated Polish skies. ⚠️ NATO’s worst airspace breach in 75 years. 💸 $2M Patriots vs $20k drones. 🛑 Europe’s defenses exposed. New deep dive: www.ryanjhite.com/2025/09/24/t...

Saudi Arabia has a new nuclear umbrella—and it’s not American. ☢️ A defense pact with Pakistan is reshaping the Middle East, India, and beyond. Deep dive: www.ryanjhite.com/2025/09/24/s...

France, Britain, Canada, and Australia just recognized Palestine. 🌍 It’s the biggest diplomatic shift in a decade— But in Gaza & the West Bank, nothing has changed. Symbolic milestone… or catalyst for annexation? Full story ➡️ www.ryanjhite.com/2025/09/25/t...

12 days over Iran didn’t just hit airfields. They broke a 45-year doctrine. With the Axis gutted and ambiguity spent, Tehran faces a brutal choice: endure, capitulate—or race for a bomb and trigger the war it fears. New analysis. www.ryanjhite.com/2025/09/25/o...

Drones over Poland. Jets over Estonia. Sabotage across Europe. Deny, distract, repeat. Russia’s gaslighting isn’t a quirk—it’s a doctrine. And the tempo is rising for a reason. What that usually means next ⬇️ www.ryanjhite.com/2025/09/25/r...

Syria’s regime fell. Its Captagon empire didn’t. Pills got smaller. Labs got mobile. Smugglers went regional. Killing a narco-state means more than raids—it means remapping power. New deep dive ⬇️ www.ryanjhite.com/2025/09/25/s...

Eugene, Oregon isn’t LA or NYC. But per capita, it’s now America’s homeless capital — with rates 2–3x higher than the biggest cities. History, housing, and fentanyl built the crisis. Can it be fixed? 👉 Read the full story: www.ryanjhite.com/2025/09/25/e...

Russia’s geography was once its shield. Now it’s its weakness. Ukraine’s drones just struck oil refineries 1,500 km inside Russia — crippling nearly a third of its refining capacity. www.ryanjhite.com/2025/09/20/r...

Argentina’s shock therapy: • Peso devalued • Subsidies slashed • Dollars legalized Result: Inflation dives. Pain spikes. Does Milei’s chainsaw economy fix a century of decline—or just buy time? www.ryanjhite.com/2025/09/20/t...

A skull from One Piece is now a global protest flag. Indonesia. Nepal. France. Why? Because nothing says defiance like Luffy’s punch at the elites. 📍 The map of where it flies next: www.ryanjhite.com/2025/09/20/t...

ISIS lost its caliphate in Iraq & Syria. Then it hid in Somalia. Now Puntland’s fighters are crushing it — with U.S. airstrikes. The hydra lives, but one head is gone. www.ryanjhite.com/2025/09/20/p...

Over 20 Russian drones crossed into Polish airspace on Sept 9–10. No casualties—but a historic first for NATO. Reaction ≠ Response. Here’s how the alliance can raise costs without firing on Russian troops. Full analysis: www.ryanjhite.com/2025/09/18/t...

10 km from China. 187 km from Taiwan. The Kinmen Islands are a Cold War relic and a modern flashpoint. Why hasn’t Beijing taken them? History, strategy, and what the future might hold ➜ www.ryanjhite.com/2025/09/18/k...

Norilsk: the Arctic’s most polluted city. – 300 km above the Arctic Circle – SO₂ once rivaling volcanoes – 2016 red river; 2020 diesel megaspill – Forest die-off across ~24,000 km² Metals from here power your phone + EV. www.ryanjhite.com/2025/09/17/t...

South Sudan is sliding back to war: purges in Juba, militias arming, a million refugees, oil pipelines through Sudan’s battlefield. Geography—rivers, swamps, borders—makes relapse easy, peace hard. It’s preventable. Will anyone act? 🛢️🗺️ www.ryanjhite.com/2025/09/17/s...

D.C. is the only U.S. city not inside a state. Result: NPS runs the parks, Congress can veto local laws, and a budget “glitch” froze $1B of the city’s own money. Who really runs Washington? 🏛️🌳 www.ryanjhite.com/2025/09/17/w...

Russia’s war in Ukraine won’t end on the battlefield. Millions of veterans—many pardoned convicts—will return with weapons, trauma & no jobs. The result? Crime waves, instability, weapons trafficking & cyberattacks far beyond Russia’s borders. Read more: www.ryanjhite.com/2025/09/16/r...

Alaska pays you to live there. It’s bigger than Texas, California & Montana combined. It has oil, forests & mountains. So why is it STILL so empty? 🟥 Geography. 🟥 Climate. 🟥 Economics. Read more: www.ryanjhite.com/2025/09/16/a...

South Africa was once a symbol of hope. Today: 60 murders a day, gangs, farm attacks, political killings, & corruption. How did the Rainbow Nation unravel—and can it be saved? 🇿🇦 Read more 👉 www.ryanjhite.com/2025/09/15/s...