A Hinge in History

“There are decades when nothing happens, and weeks when decades happen.”

On June 28, 1914, Gavrilo Princip, a Bosnian Serb student, shot and killed Archduke Franz Ferdinand of Austria and his wife, Sophie. Called “a shot heard around the world,” that bullet sparked the First World War, leaving as many as 22 million dead.

On September 10, 2025, Tyler Robinson, a 22-year-old student, shot and killed Charlie Kirk, founder and CEO of Turning Point USA. That same week, Decarlos Brown Jr., a deranged homeless man, slaughtered Ukrainian refugee Iryna Zarutska on a train. With Ukraine in flames and Russian drones violating NATO airspace over Poland, Israel continued to prioritize a kinetic war over a PR one, assassinating a trove of Hamas leaders in Qatar, a U.S. “ally.”

Meanwhile, France, England, and Germany—troubled social states—teeter on the edge of civil war. In Britain, three million citizens marched against what they see as the foreign occupation of their homeland while politicians and police stood by.

If you have not yet sensed a “disturbance in the Force,” you are neither a historian nor a movie fan. Like tectonic plates grinding beneath us, China, Russia, Iran, and North Korea press against the West, convinced they face a morally weakened America.

The soaring price of gold and the high cost of Jewish blood remain grim measures of history. Last week, gold reached $3,735 an ounce. After watching 1,200 of its citizens slaughtered and 250 taken hostage, Israel finally decided to strike at its enemies wherever they hid.

The question is no longer whether the center can hold, but whether our age is already breaking open into a new order—one that may yet be written in fire and blood.

— Sina.

For Another Angle, read Eyes Wide Shut, by Kubs Lalchandani, Esq.