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Deploying technology - nukes included - to escape a quagmire in which the West is stuck
The old American adage - "shirt sleeves to shirt sleeves in three generations" - describes the building of family fortunes, the wasting of those fortunes by the next generation, and the rebuilding of those fortunes by the generation after that.
But it also describes the differing priorities set by succeeding generations, the first efforts of the patriarch in his shirt sleeves, his wastrel son frittering away the patrimony, and finally the grandson, back in shirt sleeves, rebuilding what has been lost. 
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Waiting for the Red Sea crisis to play out as Trump's 'Musketeers" do their duty
One thing about Donald Trump's threat of tariffs is that it produced much the same reaction from supply chains as did the Covid scare and the Houthi rocket attacks on Red Sea shipping.
Like the operational principle of outmoded homeopathic medicine, the mere hint of a specific threat caused patients to react decisively in ways that put them on the physiological defensive, and the road to recovery - or so homeopathic theory goes.
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Old hat with airlines, now Maersk and Hapag-Lloyd introduce hub-and-spoke to shipping
The hub-and-spoke method of moving goods and people has long been an airline practice, and is now being re-designed for ocean carriers.
What it amounts to is having a plane or a ship go to a single destination and come back directly, rather than landing here and there picking up cargo and unloading at various ports at the destination.
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China-EU rail freight service chugs along, but must detour around Russo Ukraine War
Widely anticipated, but more pronounced than expected, the China-EU rail traffic is much like the transpacific trade. That is largely one-way, with huge westbound volumes, but far less going the other way.
Overall, China-EU rail freight volumes returned to growth last year, benefiting from a sharp rise in the vehicle segment. Rail freight volumes between China and the EU rebounded sharply according the operator, European Rail Alliance, rising 80.2 per cent year on year to 380,434 TEU.
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