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The study of how the private interests, familial connections, secret allegiances, and personal pathologies of national leaders clandestinely drive state policy, often subverting or overriding official ideology and strategic national interest. It's the recognition that geopolitics is not a clean game of rational actors, but is conducted by flawed humans whose vanity, grudges, friendships, and corrupt dealings can alter the fate of nations behind a veil of official rhetoric.
Example: A president launching a trade war not after a strategic review, but because a rival leader personally insulted them at a G7 dinner, is Geopolitics Under the Covers. It's the unspoken, personal driver—ego, a secret business deal for a crony, blackmail—that explains an otherwise irrational or disproportionate state action. Theory of Geopolitics Under the Covers
by Abzugal Nammugal Enkigal February 3, 2026
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The analysis of how intimate, private relationships (romantic, familial, friendly) are fundamentally shaped by, and in turn shape, larger political power structures, ideologies, and economic realities. It asserts that the personal is not just political; the personal is a microcosm of the political. Who does the dishes, how a couple budgets, or what is discussed (or silenced) at the dinner table are all enactments of class, gender, and cultural power dynamics.
Theory of Politics Under the Covers Example: A "progressive" man who still expects his female partner to handle all the emotional labor and mental load of the household is practicing Politics Under the Covers. His public ideology clashes with the private, lived political economy of his relationship, revealing that his beliefs haven't conquered his ingrained social programming about gender roles.
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This is the kinda kiss u give your partner or friend when u get a cut somewhere. It is when u get ur but hole and kiss the cut with your chocolate starfish making the cut brown and red.
Hey honey can I have a down under chocolate starfish cut kiss
by bob the builderfdf February 4, 2026
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