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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...
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...