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OPINION
While Washington remains mired in the tactical mud of the Middle East, acting reckless, erratic, and increasingly lawless, China is playing a calm, long game.
OPINION
The mess we are in is getting deeper.
OPINION
While the West focuses on the Iranian firestorm, a quieter tragedy is unfolding in the hills of South Lebanon.
OPINION
As we enter the second month of the conflict with Iran, it is not heated statements that will decide the war, but cold inventory reports.
OPINION
Is Pakistan finally facing the monster it created? Is Europe prepared for the consequences? The answer is in the smoke rising over the Durand Line.
OPINION
Love or hate them, you have to admire them. The Israelis are pulling one trick after another. It’s almost like magic.
EU BUBBLE
Is NATO still a fighting power, or has it become a monument?
EU BUBBLE
The news from earlier this month has been more than revealing.
ENERGY AND CLIMATE
As the military campaign against the Iranian regime unfolds, the geopolitical landscape is being reshaped by forces far away from the immediate battlefield.
DEFENCE
It should by now be rather clear.
EU BUBBLE FROM THE CAPITALS
The myth of Turkey as an indispensable bridge between East and West is beginning to give in under the weight of its own contradictions.
EU BUBBLE FROM THE CAPITALS
The drums of war are sounding again across the Middle East.
DEFENCE FROM THE CAPITALS
As the 80th anniversary of Japan’s capitulation is approaching, a strange and unsettling ritual is unfolding in the East.
EU BUBBLE TRADE
While enlightened bureaucrats play politburo, Europe’s farmers and consumers are expected to absorb - or maybe fail to absorb - yet another blow.
CULTURE WAR
Just when you thought the West had exhausted its pool of civilisational surrenders, a new frontier of absurdity opens.
CULTURE WAR
As Helen of Troy is about to be portrayed as black in Christopher Nolan’s Odyssey, the latest episode in the war for the soul of the West questions our very fundamentals.
EU BUBBLE
For decades, the capitals of Northern Europe have lived in a comfortable, self-righteous state.
EU BUBBLE TRADE
The images from New Delhi this week offer a master class in geopolitical theatre.
EU BUBBLE TRADE
When Friedrich Merz speaks twice of reconciliation with Russia shortly after a strategically important visit to India, it is not a slip of the tongue. It is a signal.
CULTURE WAR DEMOCRACY
The latest events in Iran have once again exposed a familiar and uncomfortable pattern in Western politics. Women are beaten, imprisoned, killed.
DEFENCE EU BUBBLE
Pakistan was never supposed to matter to Europe’s Middle East policy. Yet today, it suddenly does.
NEWS
New Year’s Eve is meant to mark renewal. Across much of Europe this year, it instead exposed a reality that political leaders strive to conceal.
EU BUBBLE TRADE
The tractors returned to Brussels before Christmas. Farmers once again blocked streets, surrounded EU buildings, and made their anger impossible to ignore.
CORRUPTION
According to the dominant narrative, in Nuremberg, the West put on trial those who attempted to destroy its foundations of liberty and democracy.
FROM THE CAPITALS TRADE
Vladimir Putin lands in Delhi. Narendra Modi greets him with full honours.
DEFENCE
Putin is not hiding his intentions. On December 2, 2025, at the VTB forum in Moscow, he stated, “The most radical way is to cut Ukraine off from the sea”.
CULTURE WAR
For God’s sake, those maniacs now simply did away with the face of Jesus.
DEFENCE EU BUBBLE
Let us begin with the numbers.
DEFENCE EU BUBBLE
Trump set out the original peace plan, following lengthy bilateral negotiations between the White House and the Kremlin.
DEFENCE
It had been their major goal since their summer 2024 offensive.