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Nov 7, 2025
There is a famous—if apocryphal—quote attributed to Lenin: “There are decades where nothing happens and then there are weeks where decades happen.” We find...
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Oct 30, 2025
Across the globe, a tectonic shift is underway — a groundswell of popular protest that, despite its size and significance, receives little more than a whisper in mainstream...
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Oct 23, 2025
The post-war order of free trade is dying before our eyes—and perhaps that’s the best thing that could happen to the West.
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Sep 29, 2025
In 1917, while Germany fought Russia in a devastating conflict, revolutionary conditions erupted within the Russian Empire, ultimately toppling the Tsarist regime and reshaping the...
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Aug 20, 2025
Despite Monday’s amicable White House meeting between Donald Trump, Volodymyr Zelensky, and several European leaders, a new gap in the West’s Russia strategy is...
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Jul 26, 2025
A question that would have seemed absurd a decade ago, is becoming ever more prevalent. In recent weeks, there have been anti-migration demonstrations from Spain to Ireland to...
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Jul 25, 2025
Actions tend to speak louder than words. At today’s EU-China summit in Beijing, European leaders described an “inflection point” in the relationship...
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Jul 22, 2025
I have to admit, sometimes it becomes tiresome: Every time I attend a supposedly “grand summit” of (mostly Anglosphere) conservatism like Jordan Peterson’s ARC...
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Jul 3, 2025
A demonstration of just how irrelevant Germany has become on the geopolitical stage arrived last week, when Foreign Minister Johann Wadephul stated his belief that the US...
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Jun 10, 2025
While the entire world has been enthralled by the public feud between Elon Musk and Donald Trump, the world has also continued to move on.
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May 22, 2025
The evidence is in: The attack committed by Hamas on October 7, 2023, was not a spontaneous uprising against “concentration camp-like” conditions as some pundits claimed...
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May 16, 2025
For over a hundred days, every pundit and columnist has tried to decipher Donald Trump’s foreign policy strategy.
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Apr 23, 2025
In hindsight, what makes the 1990s appear to be worthy of nostalgia is the fact that almost everything ran on autopilot. European integration hummed along with Austria, Sweden, and...
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Apr 2, 2025
Ah, the United States and foreign policy—a tale as old as time, or at least as old as Woodrow Wilson’s Fourteen Points. Here we have a nation that bestrides the globe...
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Mar 31, 2025
Is there any rhyme or reason to what seems like the latest episode of “Tariffs Gone Wild”?
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Mar 21, 2025
One of the biggest problems in today’s politics (at least in the West) is the tendency by politicians to compartmentalise everything. Now the optimist could say this is clear...
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Mar 15, 2025
As negotiations over a ceasefire in Ukraine intensify, US President Donald Trump has said that he hopes “Russia will do the right thing” and accept the current terms....
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Mar 14, 2025
It is not entirely without irony that the “The Most Successful Peace Project in the History of Mankind” is currently planning the continent’s most...
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Mar 7, 2025
According to Bloomberg, Donald Trump has awakened the “sleeping giant Germany”, which will now boast not just Europe’s largest economy but also its...
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Feb 28, 2025
Europe no longer has a place at the table. It is that simple. At the time of writing, Secretary of State Marco Rubio and Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov are negotiating...
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Feb 6, 2025
When Pyrrhus of Epirus triumphed at Asculum in 279 BC but lost much of his army in the process, he gave his name to a victory whose costs are nonetheless tantamount to defeat. While...
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Feb 4, 2025
As I have written elsewhere, I have always been suspicious of the idea of an emerging multipolar world order. This does not mean that it will never happen, but there is a...
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Jan 30, 2025
Barely a week goes by where there is not another “Make Europe Great Again” event somewhere on the old continent. I just recently participated in one taking place in the...
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Jan 28, 2025
While I agree with the premise that Donald Trump’s return to the presidency will be a good thing for the United States, I am a little less sanguine about what is going to...
