I have to start with a confession: Since January 20, the speed of policy musings and missives coming from Washington DC has literally choked tight my ability to make sense of reality.  So much so that I hit writer’s block when it came to producing analysis of the unfolding events. The mud of rhetoric, fog of ideas, smoke of political posturing, unpredictable policy swings, and extraordinary and historically unprecedented pronouncements coming from the White House these days have perplexed many in the geopolitical and geoeconomic research community. Even plans for summer 2025 academic conferences – in terms of topics and…