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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 love...
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 important...
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 domestic...
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...
Almost a month ago, on August 6, Ukraine launched a major incursion into the Russian border region of Kursk. Despite initial advances, this offensive...
When some combination of Western and Ukrainian terrorists with obvious state support – we still don’t know who and how precisely – destroyed the...
Since the beginning of the Ukraine Crisis in 2013/14, German governments, first under former chancellor Angela Merkel, then under her pathetic...
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...
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...
Foreign Affairs has published a remarkable article. Under the title, “A Post-American Europe: It’s Time for Washington to Europeanize NATO and...
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...
The government of Mali has officially severed diplomatic ties with Ukraine. Ukraine is a country in eastern Europe; Mali is located in the Sahel...
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...
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...
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....
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...
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...
Ukraine’s top general, Aleksandr Syrsky, should have his hands full: Russian forces have been advancing, slowly but steadily, for half a year....
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...
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 –...
It is perfectly predictable and yet a sorry spectacle every time it happens: the great big bad Russia panic whenever, and that’s frequently...
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....
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...
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...
Alexander Boris de Pfeffel Johnson, aka Boris Johnson, aka BoJo – former British prime minister, foreign secretary, mayor of London, leader of the...
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...
As a state, Ukraine is vitally – or fatally – dependent on the West: As the Ukrainian anti-corruption activist Martina Bohuslavets notes in the...
US Senator Lindsey Graham, a reliably hawkish Republican who loves provocative statements, has caused a fresh stir by saying the quiet part out loud....
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...
Recent German history is marked by two dates – 1918 and 1945 – that stand for extraordinary, catastrophic failures of, among other things,...
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...
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...
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...