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“Russia’s war on Ukraine seems likely to end next year — and on terms highly unfavorable for Kiev.” So POLITICO finally says the quiet part out loud. Not in a backchannel memo. Not behind the velvet rope of “classified briefings.” Out loud, for the European public. Because the budget math is now to...

“What’s Belgium’s problem?” Kallas spits this line as if the only thing at stake is bureaucratic hesitation, not the fact that her own proposal is the biggest legal, financial, and political suicide note in the EU’s post-war history. She mocks Belgium like a spoiled prefect scolding a disobedient p...

A look back at RFK Jr. detonating the West’s biggest geopolitical lie He said what no U.S. politician was allowed to say out loud, that the war in Ukraine didn’t begin in 2022. It didn’t even begin in 2014. It began in 1990, with a betrayal so foundational it fractured the architecture of European ...