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The Alaska summit was a success. The challenge is to make it last

The Alaska summit was a success. The challenge is to make it last

Do not expect Western mainstream media, NATO-EU Europe’s politicians, or the Zelensky regime and its surrogates to admit it, but there is no doubt...

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Here’s why all the critics of Alaska summit are wrong

Here’s why all the critics of Alaska summit are wrong

The problem with the future is that it is both unpredictable and inescapable. You can never know with certainty what tomorrow will bring, but you must...

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Get a rare glimpse into the sick minds behind the EU’s warmongering

Get a rare glimpse into the sick minds behind the EU’s warmongering

In the world of Western mainstream media political commentary, not everything is fun. In fact, mostly, things are grimly serious, the sort of...

12.08.2025 50

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Listen to Lavrov: Here’s why Russia won’t take crap from the EU anymore

Listen to Lavrov: Here’s why Russia won’t take crap from the EU anymore

Like him, hate him, Otto von Bismarck – Prussian aristocrat, arch conservative, user of German nationalism, maker of wars, and then keeper of the...

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The art of the kneel: How Trump’s ‘deal’ brought Brussels to heel

The art of the kneel: How Trump’s ‘deal’ brought Brussels to heel

In history, some things become clear only in hindsight. For instance, German unification all over again – good thing or bad thing? That jury is...

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‘Russiagate’ is officially dead, but its rotten corpse has done its toxic job

Be real: It is not hard to see that America – as it really exists, not the ‘dream’ version – is neither a democracy nor a country with...

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Zelensky’s end goal is in sight, and so is his end

When the US picks clients, vassals, and proxies, it needs men or women ready to trade in the interests, even the welfare and lives of their...

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The snowflakes of information war: How the New York Times sinned by honesty

It’s a platitude that war kills not only people but truth. And as all platitudes, the statement is true, boring, and misleading. Because it omits...

23.07.2025 70

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Inside the mind of America’s most unhinged war salesman

Lindsey Graham is at it again: The long-serving – if increasingly embattled – senator from South Carolina has produced an especially aggressive as...

18.07.2025 60

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Humanitarian aid from hell: The extermination of Palestinians is being disguised as help

The Gaza genocide is special. And not in one but two regards. As has often been observed, this is the first genocide in history that is, in essence,...

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Stalin of the EU: How the unelected Queen of the Union plans to keep her grip on power

Ursula von der Leyen, the president of the European Commission that runs the EU is finally facing a long overdue no-confidence vote. Its chances of...

10.07.2025 60

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General YouTube: Germany’s newest military chief is a warlord of his own Ukraine-cheering fantasyland

Let’s face it: For outside observers, who are not getting a direct boost to career and income, promotions inside ministries can be about as exciting...

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Is Berlin planning a strike on Moscow? Merz wrote the justification – just ask Iran

Forget the fog of war. Even in war, and sometimes especially in war, some things are exceedingly clear. Regarding the so-called ‘Hamas-Israel...

25.06.2025 60

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Every accusation is a confession: Ukraine’s Vladimir Zelensky has ideas about Nazis

Anniversaries can be opportunities. For better or worse. In the case of the recent anniversary of Nazi Germany’s massive attack on the Soviet Union...

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MAGA’s Civil War: Who dares to take on the Israel lobby?

Steve Bannon – stubborn, irrepressible, and very smart right/far-right public intellectual and once ally, chief strategist, and bestie of US...

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Israel doesn’t go rogue – it goes with Pentagon’s green light

Having been carrying out its ongoing genocide of the Palestinians for almost two years, wrecking Lebanon and Syria, repeatedly assaulting Iran and...

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The Russians’ new enemy #1 is not the US. And we’ve been there before

They probably won’t but Germans should pay close attention to a recent news item out of Russia: The Levada polling institute – long...

11.06.2025 60

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Kiev sends the living to die, but won’t accept its dead

It is sad, but peace remains elusive in the war between, on one side, Ukraine and – through Ukraine – the West and, on the other, Russia....

08.06.2025 60

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Trump-Musk Big Bro bust-up: Ignore the noise, focus on the signal

Two very rich and very powerful and very big American egos have had a very public and very loud cat fight. US President Donald Trump, arguably the...

07.06.2025 60

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Truce or trap? Ukraine makes sure peace talks go nowhere

On Sunday, in the Russian regions of Bryansk and Kursk, both bordering Ukraine, bridges collapsed on and under trains, killing seven and injuring...

04.06.2025 50

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How to start a war with Russia in these easy steps: Just ask Merz’s Germany

If in a dark hole, dig deeper, especially even deeper than feckless German ex-chancellor Olaf Scholz. That seems to be Berlin’s new motto. Under...

30.05.2025 60

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Germany risks becoming a target for Russia – for the first time since Hitler

Chancellor Friedrich Merz, from Germany’s mainstream CDU/CSU conservatives, has caused a stir. This time with statements about German weapons in...

28.05.2025 60

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Istanbul Talks 2.0 are a great chance for Zelensky to accept reality

Despite Ukraine’s and the EU’s worst efforts at underhanded sabotage, the Istanbul talks – the first direct Russian-Ukrainian talks in three...

18.05.2025 60

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Friends of genocide: Has Germany learned nothing from the Holocaust?

A single, small, low-quality do-it-yourself poster recently displayed in the center of Germany’s capital Berlin has caused a minor scandal that has...

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Why is Germany such a mess?

It seems long ago already, but politically speaking, it was really only yesterday that the last, deeply unpopular German government collapsed on...

12.05.2025 50

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Labeling the AfD ‘extremist’ will backfire terribly

Germany’s domestic intelligence service, the Bundesamt für Verfassungsschutz (literally, the Federal Office for Protecting the Constitution), has...

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Germany is weaponizing WWII memory against Russia

Eighty years ago, Germany suffered its worst self-induced military – as well as moral, political, cultural, you name it – catastrophe ever. First,...

03.05.2025 40

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Thanks, no Kiev: Russia and US can reconcile without Ukraine

Russian President Vladimir Putin has met again with Steve Witkoff, special envoy of US President Donald Trump. From the little the cameras showed us...

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Pope Francis was a great man who committed one terrible failure in the end

When a great man and leader of the Roman-Catholic Church – and beyond it – like Pope Francis dies, it may seem almost impious to speak or write...

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German anti-Russia propaganda is reaching Nazi-era levels

Like people almost everywhere in NATO-EU Europe, Germans are currently being subjected to a relentless barrage of shameless, often astonishingly crude...

18.04.2025 40

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The Sumy missile strike: War, propaganda, and hypocrisy

On April 13, Russia launched an attack on a target in the eastern Ukrainian city of Sumy. All reports –Western, Ukrainian, and Russian – agree on...

15.04.2025 40

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Here’s why the AfD is destined for the German government

Germany has an undeserved reputation for dour rationality and lacking an appreciation of the absurd. In reality, however, Germany is a – for want...

13.04.2025 40

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Lessons Trump could learn from the last Soviet leader

The Great Trump Toddler Tariff Tantrum that we have all been living through is so very Trump – blunt like a baseball bat,...

11.04.2025 60

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US sanctions against Russia are unprecedented – here’s why there’s no effort to end them

Another Trump-Quake has been shaking the world. In his attempt to, in essence, make America great again by eliminating its trade deficits and...

05.04.2025 60

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Here’s why the West has so far failed to start World War III

Under the title ‘The Partnership: The Secret History of the War in Ukraine’, the New York Times published a long exposé that has made a splash....

02.04.2025 50

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Trump is serious about owning Greenland, and his European ‘allies’ will just roll over and let him have it

In Frank Herbert’s novel ‘Dune’ – with its blood-soaked canvas of a whole universe of rules-based empire, incessant lying, enthusiastic mass...

31.03.2025 50

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Signal war plans leak: Bombing people is OK, talking about it is not

There’s a scandal exciting American mainstream media and minds, and it has to do with bombing. Yet there is an important nuance: it is not the...

28.03.2025 50

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Something needs to be done to save Germany. €1 trillion of debt is not it

Germans are famously – infamously, really – fiscally conservative. Believe me, I know: I am German and have witnessed for decades, indeed all my...

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The Putin-Trump call was a resounding success – whatever was said

The presidents of Russia and the US, Vladimir Putin and Donald Trump, have had a long telephone call. Yet the sky has not fallen and the Earth is not...

20.03.2025 40

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Why has Trump finally pulled the plug on deep state propaganda?

He’s done it again. Or rather, they have. As part of their curious slash-and-burn crusade to dismantle – for better or worse – large swathes of...

18.03.2025 30

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Trial by fire: Why the West won’t admit the truth about the 2014 Odessa massacre

A sure sign that a news item inconvenient for Zelensky-regime Ukraine and its (remaining) Western supporters is important is that the Western...

17.03.2025 60

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Meet the warmongers: This is where EU’s military frenzy is coming from

We have reached a point where, with regard to Russia, the US is more reasonable and less bellicose than its currently semi-rebellious European...

15.03.2025 30

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The house always wins: The EU’s sham ‘democracy’ is on show against Romania’s Georgescu

One way you can recognize a rotten Ancien Regime desperately running out of road is by how boorish and transparent its methods of repression get. By...

11.03.2025 20

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Trump is building his US utopia on a paradox

About one month after his second inauguration, American president Donald Trump addressed the two houses of the US parliament, the Congress. It is well...

10.03.2025 20

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Democracy does not ‘die in darkness,’ it is dying in the EU right now

Quiz time: What do Germany, Moldova, and Romania (in alphabetical order) have in common? They look so different, don’t they? Germany is a...

05.03.2025 20

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A dose of reality for the West’s spoiled brat: What now for the humiliated Zelensky?

“A grandiose failure” – take it from the best Ukrainian news site. That’s how Strana.ua has summed up the visit of Vladimir Zelensky,...

02.03.2025 50

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Dark night for Germany: Elections will change little, and nothing for the better

For anyone following German politics, it may be counterintuitive, but things can get even worse.  It is true: The “traffic light” coalition that...

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Trump’s Ukraine wake-up call: Points he’s now making are what Russia said all along

Let’s play a game: It’s called “Putin says, and so does Trump.” Because, recently, after years of disagreeing on, really, everything – from...

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The US is giving its European vassals what they’ve been asking for, and it’s brutal

It’s the “end of an era" and Germany is “in disarray.” And not just Germany: “Pandemonium” rages in Europe; the continent is under...

20.02.2025 50

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Shutting the EU and Ukraine out of the talks is the only way to peace

It is already certain that the high-level Russian-American meeting in the Saudi capital Riyadh will have a place in the history books. Together with a...

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