Mikel Arteta: The Low-Key Geopolitician Running Global Soft Power from the Arsenal Bench
Mikel Arteta, the accidental geopolitician, is currently conducting a real-time experiment in soft power from a bench in North London. While the rest of us doom-scroll through tariff wars, coups, and that inexplicable new TikTok dance, Arteta has quietly turned Arsenal Football Club into a multilateral alliance that would make the UN Security Council blush…