The Staging of Rapprochement - Trump’s Moscow Moment Was Never Real
What yesterday still sounded like a diplomatic revival of the Cold War turns out today to be what it was from the very beginning: another bluff from the White House ...
The President Who Applies Pressure - Trump’s Secret Outburst at Zelensky and the Humiliation of a Press Conference
Behind the doors of the White House, far from cameras and calculated gestures, a scene reportedly unfolded on Friday that left even long-time observers of American foreign policy speechless ...
The Limits of War - Trump’s Reluctant No to the Tomahawks for Ukraine
It was a scene of outward politeness and inner tension: Donald Trump and Volodymyr Zelenskyy, side by side in the Cabinet Room of the White House, flanked by Vice President J. D. Vance and Treasury Secretary Scott ...
The Winter War for Light - Russia’s Attacks, Trump’s Hesitation, Europe’s Moral Bankruptcy
Russia once again attacked Ukraine’s power grid overnight - part of a systematically conducted campaign aimed at destroying the country’s energy infrastructure before the cold sets ...
Trump’s Ukraine U-Turn - on the Same Day He Told the World: “Your Countries Are Going to Hell”
It was a day of contradictions such as only Donald Trump can stage. At noon he berated heads of state and institutions alike in a 56-minute speech before the United Nations General Assembly ...
The Sky is Burning: How Russia’s Drone Swarms Redefine War
The night of September 6 to 7 over Kyiv began with a distant hum, barely louder than a swarm of mosquitoes on a summer evening. But the people of the Ukrainian capital ...
Russia’s War Children – How the Kremlin Is Systematically Recruiting Students for War
How serious the Russian state is about the systematic militarization of children is revealed by our research into the preliminary rounds of Zarnitsa 2.0 in the Ural Federal District: What was once a harmless school game ...
The Price of False Peace - Why Ukraine Stands Firm While Russia Crumbles
It is a bitter arithmetic of this war: the more fiercely Moscow targets the Ukrainian hinterland with drones and missiles, the more united Ukraine's home front becomes - and the more visibly the edges of the Russian system fray.
Parades in Beijing, Blood in Odesa – Putin’s Victory Tour While Ukraine Burns
Vladimir Putin steps off his plane in Tianjin as if he were the sovereign ruler of a peaceful great power - while the sirens wail again in Ukraine. “On the night of August 31, Russia used drones to strike four energy facilities in the Odesa region ...
Moscow’s Invisible Eyes: How Russian Drones Spy on Germany’s Weapons Routes While Kyiv Burns
The shadows of drones glide silently over the snow-covered fields of Thuringia. Invisible to the naked eye but present on the radar screens of German military bases, they circle above those routes where American ...
Russian Missiles Hit US Electronics Plant: An Attack on Western Economic Interests in Ukraine
The night once again brought the familiar wail of air raid sirens over western Ukrainian cities, but this time the missiles fired from Russia struck a target of particular symbolic and economic significance.
Trump’s Dangerous Game: How the President Lost Credibility After Alaska
It was a picture for the history books: President Zelenskyy in a black suit instead of his usual military attire, surrounded by European heads of state and government who had rushed to Washington at lightning speed.
The Summit of Illusions
It is a Monday when the world looks to Washington - and yet hardly anyone seriously doubts that this summit rests on shaky ground. At the White House today, Europe’s top leaders are gathering to ...
Alaska: The Capitulation in Real Time - A Commentary
One must burn this image into memory: The President of the United States applauds a war criminal. Not hidden, not by accident - no, in front of rolling cameras, with the fervor of a groupie ...
Reception for the Pariah
Vladimir Putin grinned broadly as the B-2 bombers thundered overhead - American stealth bombers, once designed to keep Moscow’s imperial ambitions in check, now formed the honor guard for a man wanted by the International ...
Countdown in Alaska - The hour of truth for Trump, Putin and Ukraine
In Anchorage, Alaska, temperatures on this Friday are just barely in the double digits - but politically it is a day when the thermometer climbs into the red zone. In just a few hours, US President ...
The Hour of the Autocrats: How Putin and Kim Are Shuffling Their Cards Before the Alaska Summit and Blowing All Dimensions
In the icy cold of Alaska, two men will meet on Friday whose handshake could shake the world order. Donald Trump and Vladimir Putin plan to negotiate at Joint Base Elmendorf-Richardson ...
Where Russia Once Left America: The Trump-Putin Meeting in Alaska - A Documentation of Hour Zero
Alaska - that vast, icy outpost of America, where the Bering Strait leaves only 88 kilometers between two world powers, will on August 15, 2025, become the stage for a meeting whose historical irony is hard to surpass.
The Staging of Peace - How Trump and Putin Are Making a Mockery of the World
A summit between Donald Trump and Vladimir Putin is on the horizon. The details? Still unclear. The timing? Maybe next week. The location? "To be announced later." It sounds more like the teaser for a boxing match ...
"There is no other option - no one in Ukraine can be allowed to live."
Shortly after midnight, explosions tear the sky over Kyiv. Drones loaded with explosives penetrate the Ukrainian capital from all directions, followed by a relentless salvo of deadly rockets. Blazing ...
The Compulsion Toward Peace – Trump’s Ultimatum, Putin’s Defiance, and the Spiral of Drones
The war in Ukraine has entered a state that can no longer be described as either a ceasefire or an escalation – but rather both at once. While Russian rockets and drones rain ...
Putin speaks nicely - and bombs at night: Trump sends Patriot missiles to Ukraine
Desperation and determination hung in the air as the train rolled into the station in Kyiv. On the platform stood Andrii Yermak, the head of the Ukrainian presidential office.
Europe at a Crossroads – Why Zelensky Is Speaking Plainly in Rome
In the halls of the Roma Convention Centre on this July 10, there was a tense seriousness in the air. The conversations were polite, the setting familiar, but the tone ...
Kyiv in Flames - and the West Does What It Does Best: Hesitate
The night over Kyiv was short, loud, and deadly. For the second time within 48 hours, Russia pelted the Ukrainian capital with a hail of rockets ...
The Sky Burns, Silence Reigns
It was one of those nights when war doesn't announce itself - it simply arrives. Like a fever that suddenly bursts behind the temples. The sky over Ukraine buzzed, vibrated ...
Fire Over Kyiv - and Silence in the West: How Much Longer Will Europe Watch? - "President Trump is very well informed," Zelensky said
t was a night that sliced through the air like a glowing knife. Just before midnight, sirens began to wail in Kyiv. Minutes later, the sky over the Ukrainian capital ...
Trump and Putin talk for nearly an hour - "Perhaps with a few good jokes at the expense of world order"
Washington/Moscow – US President Donald Trump and Russian President Vladimir Putin held a phone conversation lasting about an hour on July 3. This was confirmed by Putin’s foreign policy advisor Yuri Ushakov to the Russian news ...
"Armed to Death – How Putin’s Army Is Breaking on Western Spare Parts" - Investigations into the Depths of Russia
It does not begin with explosions, but with lawsuits. Not on the front lines, but in the chambers of Russian arbitration courts, whose dry transcripts reveal more than any military press conference ...
Drone War - Ukraine Strikes Russian Arms Plant Deep Inside the Country
Kyiv – In a symbolic counterstrike, a Ukrainian long-range drone hit a major Russian arms plant in the city of Izhevsk - roughly 1,300 kilometers from the Ukrainian border. The attack ...
Between Hope, Drones and Diplomacy – Ukraine in the Shadow of War
Kyiv – As the war in Ukraine continues with unabated ferocity, a contradictory picture is emerging these days. On the one hand, attacks on cities such as Odesa and Kharkiv ...
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