The Hammurabi Code Series

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July 2026 is coming to an end and I couldn't help reflect on my journey as an author since May of 2024. That's when I met a certain gentlemen with whom I've met...

The Siberian Question has been recognized as a Featured Author title in the 2026 BookFest Awards, one of the leading independent book festivals.

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Most people, when they think about water scarcity, think about drought. About agriculture. About the kind of humanitarian crisis that generates aid campaigns and United Nations resolutions. They're not wrong. But they're thinking about the symptom, not the disease. The more consequential story isn't scarcity itself. It's what scarcity does to power. Specifically: what happens when one country controls the source, the pipeline, the purification infrastructure, or the aquifer - and another...

The most consequential period in any geopolitical transition is not the collapse. It's the shift that precedes it.

This is the sixth and final entry in the Pressure Points series, a collection of observations on resource scarcity, infrastructure fragility, and geopolitical leverage that informs the analytical foundation of the Hammurabi Code Series. If you're arriving here for the first time, the previous five entries are linked throughout this piece. Start anywhere. But this one is the...

By the time the regulation exists, the leverage is already in place.

There is a pattern I have watched repeat itself across resource sectors throughout more than three decades of legal practice. It is not dramatic. It does not make headlines when it happens. It happens quietly, incrementally, and entirely within the law.

The pattern is this: the legal and corporate mechanisms for resource exploitation consistently outpace the regulatory frameworks designed to govern them. This is not...