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Since a deal solely between Russia and the US is not going to work, time is not only on Putin’s side but also on Zelensky’s   Read More

For years after the collapse of the Soviet Union, the United States enjoyed superpower status in a unipolar world. Its economy roared, and... Read More

Imagine if, following an Allied raid on Nazi positions, the newspapers the next day told us about nothing but the civilian casualties. No... Read More

The success of the EU’s response to challenges posed by Russia, China and Trump 2.0 will hinge on the bloc’s ability to establish... Read More

Trump targeting allies doesn’t excuse the EU’s imposing new tariffs that taxpayers will have to bear, rather than addressing... Read More

Amid the institutional carnage of the first two months of the Donald Trump’s return to the presidency, few Americans will notice the... Read More

So far, Elon Musk’s DOGE has swept through government agencies like USAID, brushing off cobwebs and uncovering skeletons as it goes.... Read More

Disputes about how America votes have raged since the 2020 pandemic-driven expansion of vote-by-mail. While mail balloting has continued to... Read More

When the United States entered talks with North Vietnam near the end of the Vietnam War, it hadn’t been militarily defeated, but it had... Read More

So who won from yesterday’s phone conversation between Donald Trump and Vladimir Putin? Arguably, no one did – but nor did anyone... Read More

“Plan A is: Get the shooting to stop,” said U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio on Sunday, noting the U.S. administration’s... Read More

I rarely agree with President Trump, but his latest controversial statements about Ukraine are mostly true. They only seem preposterous... Read More

As war in Ukraine rages, Bosnia and Herzegovina is a new frontier for Russia’s assault on Europe. Putin sees an opportunity to... Read More

Israel, backed by a capricious Donald Trump, never intended to honour the ceasefire. These airstrikes mark a dire new phase in the... Read More

In the early phase of the Syrian civil war, Iran denied the presence of its forces on Syrian soil... Read More

Khamenei May Want Iran to Be Bombed, But He’s Miscalculating: Just a day prior to the 1979 seizure of the U.S. Embassy, Steven... Read More

The U.S. is beating up on Canada. Read More

Over the past few years, concerns about China’s navy and its potential threat to U.S. interests have steadily grown. Two decades ago,... Read More

From all indications, the proposed fiscal agreement in Germany between the Christian Democrats (CDU-CSU) and the Social Democrats (SPD) and... Read More

The Republic can't escape colonialism   Read More

Secretary of State Marco Rubio says the US intends to maintain support, but is this set up to fail?       Read More

A federal judge, in a ruling aimed at restoring the core functions of the defunct United States Agency for International Development... Read More

Even regional wars have geopolitical consequences, and when it comes to Russia’s war on Ukraine, the most important of these has been... Read More

The administration has a broader geopolitical agenda—one that includes countering China’s economic leverage, particularly... Read More

Hamas has claimed that Israel broke the ceasefire, but it is Hamas that sought to stall since March 1, when the first phase ended.   Read More

In his inaugural address, President Donald Trump made clear that he wants history to remember him as a “peacemaker and a... Read More

Trump and Russia are pushing the EU toward a “Hamiltonian moment,” where common debt helps build greater federalism.... Read More

They are playing war games but don't truly believe that Europe’s values are worth fighting for. Read More

Since Donald Trump’s return to the White House for a second term, the world of international relations has been upended by dramatic... Read More

Zelensky had gambled on being able to trade land in Russia for the return of land in Ukraine. That... Read More

The intricacies of the battlefields in the Ukraine-Russia war are numerous, as most military leaders and politicians continue to do nothing... Read More

Nigel Farage loves Donald Trump. The 60-year-old’s day job is as the parliamentary representative for the English seaside... Read More

Friedrich Merz’s plan to ram through his defence and debt reforms is outrageous. Read More

"Africa is entering a period where, for the first time in modern history, it will not be dominated by external powers," Gregory Copley,... Read More

The pontiff is off the critical list and stable. But his achievements will need to be safeguarded in an inevitable power struggle to... Read More

Forty years ago tomorrow, on March 11, 1985, Mikhail Gorbachev ascended to lead the Soviet Union, beginning a... Read More

Russian President Vladimir Putin and U.S. President Donald Trump agreed on Tuesday to a limited 30-day ceasefire against energy... Read More

Romania’s shocking election cancellation is an opportunity to push for greater European strategic autonomy.    Read More

In his recent appearance on the Joe Rogan podcast, Elon Musk said: “Reality is an irony maximiser.” For anyone who wants to... Read More

When Israel and Hamas finally agreed to a cease-fire in January, many outside observers credited the agreement to Donald... Read More

Conservative leader Kemi Badenoch has called for the UK to scrap its Net Zero target. In a speech earlier today, she branded the drive to... Read More

The challenge of political leadership, Henry Kissinger observed, is that all the easy decisions have been taken by someone else, leaving only... Read More

This year, at a meeting in Davos, representatives of the administration of Brazilian President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva signed an... Read More