Welcome to the Era of new Realism
2026 increasingly looks like the year the world stops pretending. We are entering what I call the Era of Realism —a period in which governments, companies, and investors are moving away from ideology and abstraction and back toward pragmatism. In simple terms: a return to what works for security, reliability, and long-term survival. The past few years have delivered a series of hard lessons. AI is consuming power at an unprecedented scale. Geopolitics is becoming more transactional and...