Geopolitics
The Great AI Stack War: How Infrastructure, Not Intelligence, is the New Battleground for Imperial Control
The global AI competition is being decided not by model superiority but by the geopolitical chess game of infrastructure financing, energy, and state capacity, where the US and China are weaponizing statecraft to trap emerging economies in new forms of digital dependency. It is a raw, neo-colonial scramble for technological sovereignty, where the Global South's aspirations for autonomy are being crushed under the weight of great power rivalry and their own crippling infrastructural deficits.