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

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...

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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 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...

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

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...

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

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...

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

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...

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

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...

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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,...

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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...

19.02.2025 20

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The Putin-Trump call was a true turning point

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...

15.02.2025 20

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Russia has won a war against the West: What the Putin-Trump call really means

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...

14.02.2025 40

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Trump’s USAID purge has revealed US scheming in Kiev, but won’t stop it

The catastrophe of the Ukraine War will leave a long trail of painful questions. Because this hubristic proxy confict has become such a...

10.02.2025 40

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Trump has a devious plan for Gaza

What could Donald Trump and Bianca Censori possibly have in common? Trump is the US president and bestie of Israel’s Prime Minister Benjamin...

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Rape and torture: Will the West cover for Kiev’s war crimes?

Russia’s Investigative Committee has announced the initiation of a criminal investigation into the killing of civilians in a small village in Kursk...

05.02.2025 40

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The German right wing has just scored a big breakthrough – or has it?

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...

03.02.2025 20

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Is the EU finally coming to its senses on Russian energy?

“All that is solid melts into air,” Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels famously proclaimed almost 180 years ago. Their Communist Manifesto was...

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Here’s why EU leaders really want to send troops to Ukraine

Nothing is certain regarding the Ukraine conflict. Except two things: Russia is winning and, under new ownership, the US leadership is searching for a...

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How a conservative culture shift under Trump could save the world

Recently, one of America’s most conservative as well as influential newspapers, the Wall Street Journal, ran two intriguing pieces. One observed...

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As the West’s global dominance crumbles, the elites desperately want to blame Trump. They’re wrong

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,...

22.01.2025 30

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Will Trump blow up another Russian pipeline?

On January 11, nine Ukrainian drones attacked the “Russkaya” compressor station near the town of Anapa in Russia’s Krasnodar Region. The...

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No Western training can save Ukrainian conscripts from their own commanders

“President-elect” Trump is about to turn into simply “president.” Signs are multiplying that, once he is in the White House again, Trump will...

14.01.2025 10

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Musk is demolishing Western leaders – they brought it upon themselves

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...

10.01.2025 30

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Here’s why Trump’s talk of annexing Canada and Greenland should not be dismissed

Trump and his team of America’s bluntest and briskest can look funny. Their demands are so bracingly direct; their threats so refreshingly frank....

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Will the H-1B visa war exposes a deeply American problem

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-...

03.01.2025 10

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The Magdeburg massacre: How the German authorities failed the murderer’s victims

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...

25.12.2024 50

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Geopolitical auto-asphyxiation: Here’s why Germany is heading for irreversible decline

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...

23.12.2024 7

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Despair: A brazen killing in Moscow betrays a panic in Kiev

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....

21.12.2024 4

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Why stealing Russia’s frozen assets will help neither Ukraine nor the West

In the war in and over Ukraine, Russian forces are continuing an accelerating advance at the “fastest pace since 2022,” as the robustly Russophobic...

17.12.2024 20

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Trump is a nightmare for the EU in more ways than one

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...

15.12.2024 10

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France is a perfect example of centrist elites wrecking the West

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...

08.12.2024 20

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Trump’s dollar threat against BRICS shows the US hasn’t learned anything

Donald Trump still has it, that old magic: Long known for using social media to great – or devastating – effect, the former and incoming US...

04.12.2024 10

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Deception, manipulation, sabotage: What the UK does to keep the Ukraine war going

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...

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A ‘position of strength’ for the West and Ukraine doesn’t exist anymore

“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...

29.11.2024 20

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The ICC arrest warrant for Netanyahu is really an indictment of the West

What is a ‘rogue regime’? According to one of the first US propagandists of the term, Anthony Lake, former President Bill Clinton’s national...

25.11.2024 7

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Biden’s last gamble: Is Washington trying to start World War III?

Never a dull day: America’s political culture is constantly evolving. Currently, we are witnessing a beautifully “bipartisan” competition over...

19.11.2024 20

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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. ...

18.11.2024 40

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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 –...

16.11.2024 10

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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...

11.11.2024 10

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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...

07.11.2024 30

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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....

03.11.2024 10

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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...

31.10.2024 10

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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...

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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 6

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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...

14.10.2024 4

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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...

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