Make no mistake: russia bombing the downtown of the capital city with 4 million residents is considered routine. Ukraine conducting deep strikes against russian military bases is labeled as escalation. Future historians will feel secondhand embarrassment when studying this era.

During Russia's morning missile attack on Kyiv on December 20, the St. Nicholas Roman Catholic Cathedral – one of the lovemarks of Kyiv in the city center – was damaged.

If the EU and European elite agreed to be collectively about 20-25% less geriatric, insane, and malicious, and go back to the EU and Europe being about antimatter laboratories and Leonardo Da Vinci, the people would be begging, crying, and pleading for more European integration.

Amusing to watch American TikTok users emigrating to Chinas Xiaohongshu. Doing exactly what the US is trying to prevent, using a Chinese app, whilst simultaneously making the Chinese nervous about all these westerners with their ideas entering China’s domestic online landscape

EU has another round in Damascus with Ahmad al-Shar’a. This time headed by Hadja Lahbib (Hadja Lahbib), Commissioner for Equality, Preparedness, and Crisis Management

22 years ago – how time flies – I wrote a report on Russian corruption. I told Putin about corruption in his circle, gave examples. I asked him directly: does Putin want 25% of his compatriots to consider the Russian President a bribe-taker? 🧵What happened after showed I

💥Another betrayal: Donald Trump has ordered the closure of the U S military base in Alexandroupoli, Greece, at the request of Vladimir Putin & Recep Tayyip Erdogan, a strategic loss for Greece and for the European Union, reports eurotopics [en].

Three years into Russia’s war against Ukraine, the battlefield remains uncertain—but geopolitics is shifting fast. A reality check on where we stand: very long post 💡 1️⃣ This war isn’t just about Ukraine. Russia isn’t fighting just to expand its borders—it’s dismantling the

🚨How Europe INCREASED its reliance on Russian fertiliser🌾 Despite its rhetoric, the EU is buying MORE Russian fertilisers now than pre-2022. It's one of many blind spots in the sanctions regime: EU may not pay Russia for oil but it paid Russia €5bn for fertiliser since 2022(!)

Q: “It sounds like you're saying that if the US does not return to fair trade as you describe it, that Europe will look elsewhere.” EU Trade Chief Maroš Šefčovič🇪🇺: “I think we already are, to be honest, because I think that was always our motto, our agenda that we are the biggest

Guess who wants to become food superpower and shape a whole bloc centered around food commodities next to energy commodities?

Finally, someone is openly admitting the reality and intends to fight the EU bureaucracy on this: without energy security, there won’t be any energy transition. If Europe wants to survive in the short term, it needs to either produce its own oil and gas, or alternatively nuclear.

🚨 Here's a thread about ALUMINIUM. Why this commonplace metal is actually pretty extraordinary. How the process of making it is a modern miracle... ... which also teaches you some profound lessons about the trade war being waged by Donald Trump. And why it might be doomed. 🧵

Former U.S. Ambassador to China Nicholas Burns on how to win the global competition: ‘Be nice to your allies.’ 1/2 ⤵️

North Korea's IT Army is expandeding operations beyond the U.S. and are now increasingly targeting organizations across Europe. Also referred to as "IT warriors," they hide their true identities and pose as workers based in other countries by connecting via laptop farms to

Hi. Tonight for the first time in months, if not a year, there are Russian missiles flying throughout Ukraine launched from the Black Sea. For the past year, this was nearly impossible, thanks to Ukraine's protective sea drones. But then the White House bought into the

Seeing who gets 0% tariffs is almost as sad as the whole tariff meltdown itself

How severe are China's food security challenges? Our new CSIS ChinaPower report explores China's 3 key vulnerabilities and 3 strengths in its pursuit of food security.

BREAKING: Netanyahu says Israel attacked last night a target near the presidential palace in Damascus. "This is a clear message to the Syrian regime. We will not allow a deployment of forces south of Damascus and any threat to the Druze community", he said

A complete catastrophe: #Trump has aligned US allies' interests with #China.