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Despite Ukraine’s and the EU’s worst efforts at underhanded sabotage, the Istanbul talks – the first direct Russian-Ukrainian talks in three...
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...
It seems long ago already, but politically speaking, it was really only yesterday that the last, deeply unpopular German government collapsed on...
Germany’s domestic intelligence service, the Bundesamt für Verfassungsschutz (literally, the Federal Office for Protecting the Constitution), has...
Eighty years ago, Germany suffered its worst self-induced military – as well as moral, political, cultural, you name it – catastrophe ever. First,...
Russian President Vladimir Putin has met again with Steve Witkoff, special envoy of US President Donald Trump. From the little the cameras showed us...
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...
Like people almost everywhere in NATO-EU Europe, Germans are currently being subjected to a relentless barrage of shameless, often astonishingly crude...
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...
Germany has an undeserved reputation for dour rationality and lacking an appreciation of the absurd. In reality, however, Germany is a – for want...
The Great Trump Toddler Tariff Tantrum that we have all been living through is so very Trump – blunt like a baseball bat,...
Another Trump-Quake has been shaking the world. In his attempt to, in essence, make America great again by eliminating its trade deficits and...
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....
In Frank Herbert’s novel ‘Dune’ – with its blood-soaked canvas of a whole universe of rules-based empire, incessant lying, enthusiastic mass...
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...
Germans are famously – infamously, really – fiscally conservative. Believe me, I know: I am German and have witnessed for decades, indeed all my...
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...
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...
A sure sign that a news item inconvenient for Zelensky-regime Ukraine and its (remaining) Western supporters is important is that the Western...
We have reached a point where, with regard to Russia, the US is more reasonable and less bellicose than its currently semi-rebellious European...
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...
About one month after his second inauguration, American president Donald Trump addressed the two houses of the US parliament, the Congress. It is well...
Quiz time: What do Germany, Moldova, and Romania (in alphabetical order) have in common? They look so different, don’t they? Germany is a...
“A grandiose failure” – take it from the best Ukrainian news site. That’s how Strana.ua has summed up the visit of Vladimir Zelensky,...
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...