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Trump could be the end of Zelensky’s war effort, regime, and political career

How do you do damage control when you have already done so much damage? That is the conundrum Western and Ukrainian leaders are currently facing. ...

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Here’s the true mystery of Donald Trump’s foreign policy

The real mystery of Donald Trump, the former US president and now president-elect, is not his personality or even his politics. And neither is it –...

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How blind support for Ukraine broke Germany

Germans love stability. Their whole political system is designed to prevent change or, at least, to slow it down to a glacial pace. Germans also love...

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Here’s why Trump won the election, and what he may do now

Donald Trump has won the US election. After serving as the 45th president between 2017 and 2021, he will now be the 47th. Trump has not merely...

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Ukraine and Germany have a kinky relationship

Speaking as a historian, my future colleagues looking back on early 21st century European history will have much to discuss at their conferences....

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Zelensky is clearly fighting a fantasy war, not the real one

What do you do when you are losing a war against Russia? In particular, if that war could have been avoided or stopped very quickly and on...

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This German grey eminence is trying for another color revolution

The Caucasus country of Georgia has had elections, and they did not go the way Western elites wanted. The governing Georgian Dream party, routinely...

29.10.2024 30

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Phantom far right: Will Kiev’s backers wake up to the reality of its neo-Nazi problem?

Ukraine under the Zelensky regime is a place that is difficult to comprehend. It has a “democracy” but no functioning opposition. It features the...

17.10.2024 40

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This EU powerhouse is committing ‘economic suicide’ – who’s to blame?

Alexey Miller, the longstanding head of Russian energy giant Gazprom, is not known for rhetorical excess. That’s why his recent public statement at...

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Has Iran just tested a nuclear weapon?

In the late evening of October 5, seismic tremors of a magnitude of 4.6 on the Richter Scale were detected in Iran’s Semnan region. Although they...

10.10.2024 30

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This EU leader is a rare voice of sanity when it comes to Russia

Slovak Prime Minister Robert Fico has done something very normal that in today’s West is highly unusual – speaking at a press conference in...

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Why this man is the most important political prisoner alive

As the world teeters on the verge of a massive war in the Middle East that could turn into World War Three, it is hard to even notice other important...

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Britain goes full Orwell accusing Putin of imperialism

There are intriguing and disappointing – though not surprising – continuities between Great Britain under the conservative Tories and the current...

30.09.2024 40

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The EU and US are punishing this small post-Soviet country for its independence

Say what you will about the EU’s “elites,” they are persistent. They are on the verge of losing the Ukraine proxy war they have been waging...

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Germany’s ruling coalition has stopped at the edge of the abyss – for now

After Thuringia and Saxony voted, Germany has just had another important regional election, this time in the land of Brandenburg. As in the two...

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What does Putin have to do with Israel’s attacks on Lebanon?

On September 17, Israel launched one of the largest and cruelest terrorist attacks in modern history. For Lebanon and Syria, the victim countries,...

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Attacks on RT reveal the sad truth about the West

The US and its ever-loyal followers Canada and Great Britain have launched a fresh information war offensive. If “fresh” is the word: In a new...

15.09.2024 30

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The West is ensuring Kiev’s demise on purpose

The predictable and predicted is happening again. Despite the coyly teasing dance of seven veils performed by, mostly, US Secretary of State Antony...

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Olaf Scholz has a sudden moment of clarity about Russia

Olaf Scholz, the German chancellor, has caused a stir. Not by some kind of success, in, for instance, elections, the economy, or foreign and domestic...

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Shadow shake-up: Zelensky’s pointless purge of his ministers reveals Kiev’s despair

Ukraine’s government has undergone a major shake-up. Seven out of 22 holders of cabinet positions have resigned, as well as a deputy head of the...

06.09.2024 30

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Kursk kamikaze: The price of Ukraine’s foolish attack is becoming clearer by the day

Almost a month ago, on August 6, Ukraine launched a major incursion into the Russian border region of Kursk. Despite initial advances, this offensive...

04.09.2024 30

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Nord Stream sabotage: How Western media outlets do their governments’ dirty work

When some combination of Western and Ukrainian terrorists with obvious state support – we still don’t know who and how precisely – destroyed the...

30.08.2024 40

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Democracy kaput: Germans want peace with Russia, but their rulers only answer to Washington and Kiev

Since the beginning of the Ukraine Crisis in 2013/14, German governments, first under former chancellor Angela Merkel, then under her pathetic...

27.08.2024 30

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Chernobyl 2.0: Will Ukraine cause a new nuclear disaster?

Recently, Zaporozhe nuclear power station has been back in the news. It is the biggest such installation in Europe and one of the ten largest in the...

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Why the West is still lying about the largest act of terrorism in modern European history

On September 26, 2022, infrastructure vital for both Germany and the EU as a whole was attacked as never before in post-World War II, peacetime (at...

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Should the US abandon Europe?

Foreign Affairs has published a remarkable article. Under the title, “A Post-American Europe: It’s Time for Washington to Europeanize NATO and...

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Shielding Israel: Germany is still drawing the wrong lessons from the Holocaust

On 6 August, a court in Berlin sentenced a young woman called Ava Moayeri to a fine of €600 for shouting “From the River to the Sea, Palestine...

10.08.2024 40

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Kiev loves terrorists: This is why Ukraine will never get the Global South on its side

The government of Mali has officially severed diplomatic ties with Ukraine. Ukraine is a country in eastern Europe; Mali is located in the Sahel...

07.08.2024 30

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Germany is all too happy to paint a target on its back

For a government, it's one thing to have bad ideas of its own, but far worse to implement another governments’ bad ideas – and tolerate no debate...

02.08.2024 30

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Here’s what a Chinese-mediated peace would mean for Ukraine and the world

Ukrainian Foreign Minister Dmitry Kuleba went on a three-day visit to China last week. The most important part of this trip was Kuleba’s meeting...

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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...

21.07.2024 40

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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...

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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...

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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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