European Union
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A Union Built on Smoke and Mirrors
How the European Union constructed a substitute political project around the defence of Ukraine, financed it through budget headroom and loan guarantees rather than transparent appropriation, and now confronts a fiscal and legitimacy crisis that its ruling class cannot resolve without either abandoning the war or dismantling the financial architecture of liberal Europe. Editorial Analysis… Continue reading
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Why Europe Blinked: The Russian Billions It Cannot Touch
The European Union Cannot Seize Russian Assets Without Destroying Its Own Financial Order Editorial Analysis | October 2026 The European Union entered the final months of 2025 with an apparent consensus that Russian sovereign assets immobilised within its jurisdiction should be converted into financial support for Ukraine. Approximately €210 billion in Russian central bank reserves… Continue reading
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The Diesel Deal and the Fracturing of the Atlantic Order
How a single phone call between Putin and Trump exposed the collapse of NATO unity, the desperation of the American energy crisis, and the emergence of a multipolar diplomatic architecture that bypasses the institutions of Western hegemony Editorial Analysis | October 2026 The ninety-minute telephone conversation between Vladimir Putin and Donald Trump on the evening… Continue reading
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The Abandonment of Ukraine That Never Was
The narrative of US withdrawal from Ukraine is a mechanism for forcing Europe to pay for and fight a proxy war that serves American interests, while the arms industry collects the profits and the working class bears the costs Editorial Analysis | October 2026 The narrative that the United States is abandoning Ukraine has been… Continue reading
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Why You Are Getting Poorer While the Economy Grows
The Case Against Central Banks Editorial Analysis | October 2026 The banking system that governs the global economy is not a neutral mechanism for intermediating between savers and investors but a class weapon wielded by a transnational financial oligarchy to control credit allocation, determine which sectors expand and which contract, and discipline labour by creating… Continue reading
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Ukraine’s Losing War and the West’s Strategic Dead End
How military exhaustion, fiscal collapse, and internal political disintegration have transformed the conflict into a question of settlement terms rather than battlefield victory Editorial Analysis | September 2026 Ukraine is losing this war, and the trajectory of defeat, while gradual, appears increasingly inexorable. This is not a judgment upon the Ukrainian soldiers nor upon the… Continue reading
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The Backfire as Putin Loses Patience
How Ukraine’s Drone Offensive Accelerated Its Own Strategic Collapse The forty-day drone offensive launched by Ukraine against Russian territory represents one of the most significant tactical gambits of the entire conflict, and its consequences will likely reshape the trajectory of the war in ways that Kyiv’s planners almost certainly did not anticipate. President Volodymyr Zelensky… Continue reading
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Nowhere To Run
How America’s War on Iran Has Exposed the Limits of Military Power, the Fragility of Financial Hegemony, and the Terminal Decline of Western Imperialism Editorial Analysis | August 2026 The war on Iran, which American planners confidently predicted would conclude within four to six weeks, has instead become a grinding conflict that is consuming the… Continue reading
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Russia Threatens Reciprocal Ship Seizures as Warship Maintains Permanent Channel Presence
Permanent Russian naval presence in the Channel and explicit threats of reciprocal merchant-ship seizures mark a doctrinal shift from protective escort to contested enforcement of maritime trade routes Russian President Vladimir Putin has warned that Moscow will respond “in kind” to European seizures of vessels linked to its oil trade, stating that any such actions… Continue reading
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The Fracturing of European Solidarity:
Ukrainian Refugees and the Retreat from Humanitarian Commitment The numbers alone tell a story of unprecedented displacement. As of May 2026, Eurostat recorded 4.38 million Ukrainian refugees under temporary protection across European Union member states, with Germany hosting 1.28 million, Poland 967,500, and Spain 267,700 (1). Women constitute the majority of these refugees, reflecting the… Continue reading
