Europe

The west just doesn’t get it. Russia, that is. I feel like a failure, just to be honest. Almost a decade now my contemporaries and I have tried in vain to teach “Russia” to a curious world east of eastern Europe. And no matter what, US and UK media, academia, and thinking tanks can’t come to grips with the reality. Yes, the majority of Russians cannot....

Every day world mainstream news reports more people in more countries diagnosed “positive” for the coronavirus illness, now called COVID-19. As the reported numbers grow, so does widespread nervousness, often in the form of panic shopping for masks, disinfections, toilet paper, canned goods. We are told to accept the testing results as science-based...

While the US officials continue to claim that the US-Europe alliance is functioning as usual, the fact that the post-World War Two arrangement is falling apart is becoming evident with each passing day. This was pretty obvious at the latest Munich security conference. While this even has traditionally the current administration… For we know that this shift began a while ago, and it will continue even after...