The gaslighting machine: Energy, war, and the politics of pretending

Energy policy has been keeping the wrong score

Geopower, Energy Realpolitik with Todd Royal – Energy should be judged the same way. Not by press releases. Not by theoretical capacity. Not by the number of panels installed, turbines erected, or dollars appropriated. The question is much simpler: Did the system deliver abundant, reliable, and affordable energy while reducing fossil-fuel consumption?

The US must prioritize its own borders, its industrial base, its hemisphere, and its people

Geopower, Energy Realpolitik with Todd Royal – The West keeps mistaking narrative for capability. It tells itself Iran can be managed through paper agreements while Iran enriches uranium near weapons-grade. It tells itself Europe can defend liberal order while deindustrializing and depending on others for energy. It tells itself wind and solar are cheap while ignoring the total system cost of...

The gaslighting machine: Energy, war, and the politics of pretending

Geopower, Energy Realpolitik with Todd Royal – America’s gaslighting machine turns policy failure into virtue, from energy scarcity and climate theater to Ukraine narratives and socialist politics. Energy security, affordability, and empirical reality clash with elite messaging as voters are urged to question slogans, follow the costs, and refuse to mistake ideology for infrastructure...

The world is not running out of energy. It’s running out of seriousness. (P.S., We didn’t lose the Iran War)

Geopower, Energy Realpolitik with Todd Royal – We are surrounded by abundance and told to live in scarcity. We possess overwhelming military advantages and are told we are weak. We have more oil, gas, coal, uranium, engineering talent, capital markets, and technological capacity than any civilization in history, yet our political class behaves as if modern life is a sin to be rationed. We are asked to...

Why ‘data centers’ have become the target in America’s power debate

Geopower, Energy Realpolitik with Todd Royal – Now the artificial-intelligence revolution has arrived. Manufacturing is returning to the US. Vehicles, heating systems, industrial equipment, and entire buildings are being pushed toward electrification. Yet instead of confronting the nation’s shortage of firm power, political leaders are looking for a new consumer to blame. That consumer is the data center...