Abu Dhabi: the scaffolding beneath peace—and the house nobody is building
Prisoners come home. The hard questions don’t even have a table yet.
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Trump’s peace process produced Ukraine’s deadliest year. That’s not a coincidence.
Negotiations gave Russia exactly what it needed: diplomatic cover to escalate while the West hesitated to act.
No, Hungary, banning Russian gas isn’t a violation of EU law
Budapest claims the EU overstepped its powers. The treaties, case law, and Hungary's own choices tell a different story.
Europe must stop negotiating its own defeat
In 2024, Europe backed international law. Now it's negotiating Putin's demands.
Abu Dhabi talks: Europe’s absence leaves Ukraine exposed in trilateral format
Russia sends technocrats instead of political mouthpieces—a cautiously positive sign
Trump’s Greenland obsession has nothing to do with Greenland
Experts have tried and failed to find a rational explanation
Carney to democracies: the old world order is gone — act like it
Canadian PM on great power rivalry, the collapse of the "rules-based order," and what middle powers must do now
The alliance Russia fears isn’t NATO. It’s a coalition that will actually fight.
With Ukraine as a founding member, a coalition of committed nations would have the one thing NATO lacks: proven resolve.
The West condemned Russia’s attacks. Ukrainians are still freezing
Generators for Kyiv. A crackdown on Putin's tankers. The tools exist—the will doesn't.
Russian bombs keep destroying Ukraine’s Soviet heating. Scotland shows what to build instead
Heating choices being made now lock in energy dependence until 2055
How one woman’s Threads posts got a pro-Putin Italian banned from Ukraine
"Him entering Ukraine? Over my dead body."
Venezuela proved Trump thinks like Putin—and Europe needs new allies
Trump called Putin "genius." Then he followed the playbook.
Trump built Russia a kill switch. They’re already using it.
Zelenskyy warns Russia is preparing to strike Kyiv government buildings using the fabricated "attack on Putin's residence" as pretext. The same playbook Russia used in September.
Europe keeps sanctioning Russia. Here’s the part it keeps missing.
Russia adapts faster than Brussels deliberates. The twentieth package is Europe’s last chance to prove otherwise.
What Ukrainian children who lost fathers in war want for Christmas
Four children who lost fathers defending Ukraine wrote Christmas letters. Their small, practical wishes reveal what war takes from childhood.
The alternative to NATO: A Coalition of Like-Minded European Countries
Fifteen nations, 4% GDP spending, and Ukraine as founding member.
Europe’s hesitant resolve
Europe chose an interest-free loan over frozen Russian assets. It didn’t drop the ball—but it didn’t play the game either.
Trump offers Ukraine “security guarantees” that are designed to fail
NATO can't protect its own members—why would it protect Ukraine?
I’ve monitored Russian soldiers for 3.5 years. The system is finally cracking
What looks like stability is just the residue of fear and habit.
Belgium’s PM calls Ukrainian victory a “fairy tale” — and wants EU taxpayers to pay instead of Russia
“Who really believes that Russia will lose in Ukraine? It’s a fairy tale, a complete illusion,” Belgian Prime Minister Bart De Wever told La Libre Belgique on 2 December.