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Meatgrinder 2.0: Valery Zaluzhny wants Ukraine to become the West’s weapons lab

Valery Zaluzhny, Ukraine’s former commander-in-chief, has given his first public speech in his new role as his country’s ambassador to Britain....

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What the top UN court’s ruling means for Israel

The 15 judges of the International Court of Justice (ICJ), the highest judicial organ of the United Nations, have issued what everyone agrees is a...

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Erdogan teaches his NATO allies some unpleasant truths

On the occasion of NATO’s 75th anniversary meeting, only two leaders of NATO member states dared openly speak about issues that in a reasonable...

20.07.2024 20

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The general and the warmonger: Why Ukraine’s commander-in-chief met a notorious French proxy-war philosopher

Ukraine’s top general, Aleksandr Syrsky, should have his hands full: Russian forces have been advancing, slowly but steadily, for half a year....

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The attempt on Trump’s life saw not one but two narrow escapes

If you say “Fort Sumter,” most Americans would recognize the place where their Civil War began in 1861. When that war was over four years...

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Orban is what Zelensky should have been

When your enfant terrible is also (almost) the only adult in the room, then something is very wrong with your room. For “the room” read the EU –...

10.07.2024 20

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How ‘Putin endorsed Le Pen’: Russiagate comes to France

It is perfectly predictable and yet a sorry spectacle every time it happens: the great big bad Russia panic whenever, and that’s frequently...

07.07.2024 20

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The US president is now officially a wizard-king

The Supreme Court of the United States (SCOTUS) has handed down a decision in a case brought by the former and likely future President Donald Trump....

06.07.2024 20

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This is what US allies should learn from the Biden-Trump debate

There is very little to say about the content of the recent televised debate between the current American president, Joe Biden, and the former and...

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Trump the Peacemaker? How his presidency might help end the war in Ukraine

The likely next president of the US, Donald Trump, has signaled that he has a plan for bringing the war in Ukraine to an end. Or, at least, two of his...

30.06.2024 40

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The evil clown returns: Boris Johnson is not done haunting world politics

Alexander Boris de Pfeffel Johnson, aka Boris Johnson, aka BoJo – former British prime minister, foreign secretary, mayor of London, leader of the...

21.06.2024 10

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Fewer and fewer Westerners are buying the ‘Atlanticism’ idea

As a political de-facto entity, the post-Cold War West has always struggled to articulate a common purpose. The underlying cause of this difficulty is...

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The puppet is pulling the strings: How Zelensky’s regime manipulates its Western backers

As a state, Ukraine is vitally – or fatally – dependent on the West: As the Ukrainian anti-corruption activist Martina Bohuslavets notes in the...

15.06.2024 10

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This US senator betrayed America’s worst kept secret about Ukraine

US Senator Lindsey Graham, a reliably hawkish Republican who loves provocative statements, has caused a fresh stir by saying the quiet part out loud....

13.06.2024 10

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Biden to Ukraine: You’re not getting into NATO, but that doesn’t mean you can stop bleeding for us

If Vladimir Zelensky is Ukraine’s most inflated politician, its most important one is not from Ukraine at all. Kiev’s war and its political regime...

09.06.2024 30

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Germany militarizes: When have we seen this before?

Recent German history is marked by two dates – 1918 and 1945 – that stand for extraordinary, catastrophic failures of, among other things,...

03.06.2024 40

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Here’s what’s going to happen at the Swiss ‘peace summit’ on Ukraine

Between 1985 and 1991, the last Soviet leader, Mikhail Gorbachev, tried to change everything only to, in the end, lose everything. Having set out to...

01.06.2024 40

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Betting on Armageddon: What is Zelensky’s plan now that his term is over?

On 20 May, something important changed for Ukraine’s Vladimir Zelensky. On that day, the five-year presidential term for which he had been elected...

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Israel’s immunity cracks: The Hague goes after Netanyahu

The challenge of witnessing a historic event in real time isn’t to notice it. That’s the easy part. What’s hard is to understand its meaning for...

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Here’s why Russia’s Kharkov offensive is far more than just a military setback for Kiev

In “Chapaev,” a 1930s Soviet film classic still very familiar in both Russian and Ukrainian popular culture, a famous key scene depicts a...

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Poke the bear and find out: Here’s why the West should finally listen to Russia’s warnings

We have been through an intense, if muffled crisis in the ongoing political-military confrontation between Russia and the West by way of Ukraine. The...

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The West has invented a magic phrase to hide its geopolitical games

The elites and mainstream media of the West are so addicted to double standards that spotting yet another one is hardly news. These are the people who...

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Tarik Amar: This is the biggest illusion about the Ukraine war the West refuses to acknowledge

We are living through a remarkable Western anticlimax. The US has finally, after half a year of domestic wrangling, passed another large funding...

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Zelensky’s top rival has gone missing: Where is General Zaluzhny?

There is only one genuinely puzzling question left about Ukrainian president Vladimir Zelensky: Why is he still in office? By now, at least,...

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Scholz has one trump card in talks with China, but he’ll never use it

German Chancellor Olaf Scholz is on a three-day visit to China. He is not traveling alone. A large delegation of German business representatives,...

16.04.2024 10

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Mobilizing for defeat: The Zelensky regime insists more Ukrainians must die before it’s all over

Ukraine’s situation is extremely precarious, if you want to put it optimistically. A more realistic term is “catastrophic.” The country faces...

13.04.2024 20

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Ukraine fatigue: Kiev and the West are tiring of war and each other

What a small band of objective-though-long-disparaged observers in the West have long warned about is now happening: Ukraine and the West are losing...

11.04.2024 30

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Historic irony: Germany is being sued over genocide complicity for helping Israel

On April 8 and 9, the International Court of Justice (ICJ), often referred to as the World Court, will hold hearings on a case brought by Nicaragua...

07.04.2024 30

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How America’s top spymaster sees the world and why that is rather disappointing

William J. Burns has published a long piece in Foreign Affairs under the title ' Spycraft and Statecraft. Transforming the CIA for an Age of...

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A farewell to decency: Prominent Western media and political haters rush to blame Russia for the horrific Moscow terror attack

Only a few days ago, one of the worst terrorist attacks in recent history occurred in Russia. The perpetrators stormed concert venue Crocus City...

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Here’s what the ICC arrest warrant for Putin has accomplished in the past year

One year ago, on 17 March 2023, the International Criminal Court (ICC) issued two politically important – to put it neutrally – arrest warrants,...

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The big lie behind the Western narrative on Russia is leading us to World War III

The current situation in the conflict between Ukraine – serving (while being demolished) as a proxy for the West – and Russia, can be sketched in...

15.03.2024 10

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Here’s the worst part about the leaked German ‘Crimean Bridge attack’ call

Since Russia has revealed that on February 19 high-ranking Luftwaffe officers discussed – on a basically open conference platform – how German...

06.03.2024 30

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Here’s why the West can’t be trusted to observe its own ‘red lines’ in Ukraine

French President Emmanuel Macron and German Chancellor Olaf Scholz have disagreed publicly over how to support Ukraine – which has been ruthlessly...

02.03.2024 30

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There are chilling parallels between the suffering of Julian Assange and Gaza civilians

Recently, two of the defining injustices of the contemporary West have been the object of legal proceedings. And while one involves mass murder and...

29.02.2024 30

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Hypocrisy and Genocide: Here’s who the West should really be ‘decolonizing’

The hypocrisy of the US-led West regarding how it reacts to Russia, a geopolitical opponent, on one side, and to Israel, a favorite with special...

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Can the EU be trusted with its own nukes?

With its farmers rebelling, its economy declining, and its traditional parties decaying, you’d think the European Union has enough to worry about at...

21.02.2024 10

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The insanity of war: Is the avoidable conflict driving Ukraine out of its mind?

In a recent post on X, Aleksey Arestovich – the former consigliere of Ukrainian President Vladimir Zelensky and now his sworn enemy (and would-be...

14.02.2024 10

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Birth of a myth: By replacing his top general, Zelensky has laid a trap for himself

In his masterpiece, the pre-World War II ‘Le fil de l’épée,’ a young Charles de Gaulle observes that soldiers and politicians usually can’t...

12.02.2024 30

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Make no mistake, a new Civil War is a very real prospect for the US

Let’s sketch a big country in three broad strokes: First, its population is over 333 million. These citizens privately own about (or at least) 339...

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How NATO brainwashes Western society with its anti-Russia wargames

NATO has launched its largest exercise since the Cold War ended. Steadfast Defender 2024 will last several months and involve about 90,000 troops,...

01.02.2024 40

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Elon Musk Goes to Auschwitz: How a technically smart man keeps missing the key lesson of the Holocaust

The world’s richest man has visited one of the world’s darkest places. Elon Musk has gone to Auschwitz – to be precise, to the museum that...

30.01.2024 10

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Here’s why the ICJ ruling on genocide is a crushing defeat for Israel

The United Nations’ International Court of Justice (ICJ) has ruled on the case that South Africa had brought against Israel. Those who mistake...

28.01.2024 40

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Plan B? Zelensky makes a dangerous move in his faltering fight against Russia

Ukrainian President Vladimir Zelensky has caused a stir. But this time not by haranguing the West on how much it owes Ukraine (in short: everything...

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The German establishment wants to ban a popular right-wing party. Here’s how it could backfire

With really bad ideas, you can often ask two pertinent questions. First, why will it not work? Second, why would it be harmful if it did? That rule...

23.01.2024 20

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A ‘pro-Russian monster’ or a force for common sense? A new party is reshaping the German political landscape

Germany is in severe crisis. Between a tanking economy and an increasingly unpopular government, the country has begun to show just how much stress it...

20.01.2024 30

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Gonzalo Lira: The US government has allowed Ukraine to kill an American journalist who criticised ‘dictator’ Zelensky

So, Gonzalo Lira is dead. As he warned in his last video message before being disappeared (this time, as it turned out, forever) by the Ukrainian...

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Corruption, disinformation, warnings about assassinations: What to make of the latest claims about the Bidens’ Ukraine links

At first it feels like a blast from the past but it's really about the present and future: Journalist Simona Mangiante Papadopoulos has released a...

12.01.2024 10

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X, drugs, politics: What’s behind the latest attack on Elon Musk?

Billionaire tech entrepreneur, space visionary, and the richest man in the world Elon Musk may be wrong about any number of things, but he and many...

11.01.2024 10

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‘Plan B’ for Ukraine: Calls for concessions to Russia are growng in both Kiev and the West, but are they realistic?

We are hearing more and more suggestions that Kiev should get ready for a compromise peace. In particular, there are mountings calls to cede territory...

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