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For anyone following German politics, it may be counterintuitive, but things can get even worse. It is true: The “traffic light” coalition that...
Let’s play a game: It’s called “Putin says, and so does Trump.” Because, recently, after years of disagreeing on, really, everything – from...
It’s the “end of an era" and Germany is “in disarray.” And not just Germany: “Pandemonium” rages in Europe; the continent is under...
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...
The only thing more dangerous than being America’s enemy is to be its friend. That is a statement often attributed to Henry Kissinger – the...
It’s obviously good news for the world that the US has finally ended its perverse policy of anti-diplomacy (its absurd essence: When there’s a...
The catastrophe of the Ukraine War will leave a long trail of painful questions. Because this hubristic proxy confict has become such a...
What could Donald Trump and Bianca Censori possibly have in common? Trump is the US president and bestie of Israel’s Prime Minister Benjamin...
Russia’s Investigative Committee has announced the initiation of a criminal investigation into the killing of civilians in a small village in Kursk...
Germany has the blues. So far, so ordinary. But, with only weeks to go before government-collapse-induced snap elections on February 23, Germany is...
“All that is solid melts into air,” Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels famously proclaimed almost 180 years ago. Their Communist Manifesto was...
Nothing is certain regarding the Ukraine conflict. Except two things: Russia is winning and, under new ownership, the US leadership is searching for a...
Recently, one of America’s most conservative as well as influential newspapers, the Wall Street Journal, ran two intriguing pieces. One observed...
Asking a lot of other people about what they think may be interesting. But the real fun starts when you make it all about your own opinion. That is,...
On January 11, nine Ukrainian drones attacked the “Russkaya” compressor station near the town of Anapa in Russia’s Krasnodar Region. The...
“President-elect” Trump is about to turn into simply “president.” Signs are multiplying that, once he is in the White House again, Trump will...
Elon Musk has been at it again. Using his X platform and pure oomph as the richest man in the world and President-elect Donald Trump’s “first...
Trump and his team of America’s bluntest and briskest can look funny. Their demands are so bracingly direct; their threats so refreshingly frank....
To paraphrase the American film classic, ‘The Big Lebowski’, say what you will about Trumpism but at least it’s neither united nor dull. US uber-...
At 19:02 on December 20, a man named Taleb al-Abdulmohsen started a monstrous terror attack in the eastern German city of Magdeburg. Within minutes...
Oops, he’s done it again: Tech mogul, richest man in the world, and also now new bestie of American President-elect Donald Trump, Elon Musk has...
On 17 December, in the early morning, one of Russia’s most important and well-known generals was assassinated in front of his home in Moscow....
In the war in and over Ukraine, Russian forces are continuing an accelerating advance at the “fastest pace since 2022,” as the robustly Russophobic...
For a man his age, incoming US president Donald Trump has a knack for cultivating a bad-boy image. Refreshingly direct to the point of rude...
It is almost as if some EU capitals have a tenacious death wish. After Berlin’s amazing and ongoing self-Morgenthauing act of industrial suicide...
Donald Trump still has it, that old magic: Long known for using social media to great – or devastating – effect, the former and incoming US...
Unless you want to be blind, it is obvious that Ukraine under the Zelensky regime is not remotely a free country. In politics, after massive...
“To negotiate from a position of strength” is a favorite cliché of the West. And understandably so, as that short phrase is quite handy: It...
What is a ‘rogue regime’? According to one of the first US propagandists of the term, Anthony Lake, former President Bill Clinton’s national...
Never a dull day: America’s political culture is constantly evolving. Currently, we are witnessing a beautifully “bipartisan” competition over...
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. ...
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 –...
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...
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...
Speaking as a historian, my future colleagues looking back on early 21st century European history will have much to discuss at their conferences....
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...
The Caucasus country of Georgia has had elections, and they did not go the way Western elites wanted. The governing Georgian Dream party, routinely...
Ukraine under the Zelensky regime is a place that is difficult to comprehend. It has a “democracy” but no functioning opposition. It features the...
Alexey Miller, the longstanding head of Russian energy giant Gazprom, is not known for rhetorical excess. That’s why his recent public statement at...
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...
Slovak Prime Minister Robert Fico has done something very normal that in today’s West is highly unusual – speaking at a press conference in...
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...
There are intriguing and disappointing – though not surprising – continuities between Great Britain under the conservative Tories and the current...
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...
After Thuringia and Saxony voted, Germany has just had another important regional election, this time in the land of Brandenburg. As in the two...
On September 17, Israel launched one of the largest and cruelest terrorist attacks in modern history. For Lebanon and Syria, the victim countries,...
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...
The predictable and predicted is happening again. Despite the coyly teasing dance of seven veils performed by, mostly, US Secretary of State Antony...
Olaf Scholz, the German chancellor, has caused a stir. Not by some kind of success, in, for instance, elections, the economy, or foreign and...
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...