Triple Edge Resources

S&P Global reports US commitment to securing Black Sea grain trade routes as part of Ukraine-Russia partial ceasefire — documents the US commercial and strategic interest in the Black Sea corridor.

International relations expert calls for continued diplomacy and a new pan-European security deal to defuse Russia-Ukraine tensions — pre-invasion Declassified UK analysis.

Declassified files show British intelligence predicted in the early 1990s that NATO expansion would eventually lead to war with Russia — three decades before the 2022 invasion.

Declassified UK reveals that both John Major and Tony Blair gave private assurances to Russia that NATO expansion would not threaten Russian security — assurances subsequently abandoned as NATO enlarged.

Declassified UK reveals UK government documents showing explicit internal assessment that NATO expansion could result in armed conflict with Russia — documents the knowingness of the Western policy position.

Declassified UK investigation based on FOI-obtained documents showing UK government understood from the outset that NATO expansion eastward would provoke Russian hostility — documents the gap between public positioning and private assessment.

LinkedIn post by Italian intelligence analyst Giuseppe Gagliano on CESTUDECOPIG — strategic intelligence centre content.

Conservative Home opinion piece on Ed Miliband’s energy policy — documents the cross-party blame game on energy market failure.

Sachs documents Russia’s repeated offers to negotiate with the US on Ukraine — argues Western refusal to engage is prolonging the conflict.

Analysis of the financial and corporate interests shaping Ukraine peace negotiations — documents the “boardroom” dimension of the conflict resolution process.

Peace movement analysis calling for negotiated settlement — documents the anti-war left argument on Ukraine one year into the full-scale invasion.

European Conservative report citing Ukrainian official claims that Johnson directly pressured Zelensky to abandon the 2022 peace talks.

Zelensky formally denies that Johnson’s April 2022 visit blocked a peace deal — documents the contested nature of the Johnson-Ukraine peace talks narrative.

Turkish outlet reports Kyiv official allegation that Boris Johnson’s visit in April 2022 derailed near-final peace talks with Russia.

Opinion piece tracing the continuity of Putin’s NATO demands from 2008 Bucharest to the 2022 invasion — documents the consistency of Russian strategic objectives.

Former Ukrainian President Yushchenko argues the Merkel-Sarkozy blocking of Ukraine’s NATO MAP at Bucharest 2008 enabled Putin’s aggression — documents the Western miscalculation.

Korean Times op-ed arguing against a simple good/evil framing of the Ukraine crisis — directly relevant to the trilogy’s moral symmetry thesis.

Policy analysis of the Ukraine conflict through the lens of economic-military power balance — assesses the effectiveness of EU sanctions and lessons for future policy.

Novel imagining the relationship between Edith Tudor-Hart, Soviet spy photographer, and Kim Philby — relevant to the literary espionage register Triple Edge operates in.

Dostoevsky’s novel of a Christ-like innocent in corrupt St Petersburg society — one of the literary foundations for the Triple Edge moral register.

BBC History deep-dive on how slavery underpinned the building of modern Britain; covers the economic and social infrastructure built on enslaved labour and the long shadow it cast on British wealth and institutions.

Chatham House paper describing NATO expansion as exercise of free will; important counterpoint in NATO debate

Oliver Bullough’s investigation into the secret world of offshore finance and oligarch wealth

Richard Brooks account of how accountancy firms captured and distorted capitalism