Algeria tells France they are not taking back violent migrants and France is powerless
A fiery Western leader on immigration is desperate to deport a series of violent criminals southward to a country the West once had great influence over—but that…
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No more soldiers: European big debt for defence, yet young men are vanishing
One of the biggest problems in today’s politics (at least in the West) is the tendency by politicians to compartmentalise everything.
Turkey and the EU’s defence dilemma: a partner too far?
Europe’s security mechanism is not at its best.
Lessons from Minsk II for the Ukraine peace talks
The road to peace in Ukraine is extremely difficult and perhaps also very long, despite president Trump’s initial hopes.
Where is democracy? Unelected establishment judges now stand against elected populists
Stop me if you’ve heard this one before: a right-populist walks into office. The unelected judiciary says, “We’re investigating you!”
Germany, better to dream of Bismarck, shake off the Greens and SPD
From all indications, the proposed fiscal agreement in Germany between the Christian Democrats (CDU-CSU) and the Social Democrats (SPD) and the Greens is an inadequate…
What can we learn if we listen to a Russian officer’s muscular call to arms?
The invasion of Kursk was a disaster, indeed remains a disaster as Ukrainian men continue to be ground down as I write these words.
Armies that do real fighting do not employ women as infantry or submariners
The recent inquest into the suicide of a young female soldier in the British Army nearly four years ago has generated vast amounts of adverse-publicity for the army.
Genocide in Syria wipes out the last surviving heirs of European civilisation
As the West postures as the global guardian of human rights and democracy, it turns a blind eye - or worse, lends direct support - to the ongoing ethnic cleansing…
EU defence proposal is just a debt-union, not a serious course correction
It is not entirely without irony that the “The Most Successful Peace Project in the History of Mankind” is currently planning the continent’s most ambitious…
MEP says EU must be pragmatic while China has edge over EU billions
György Hölvényi, MEP for Hungary and member of the Patriots for Europe Group, standing rapporteur for education in the Committee on Development, reports exclusively…
The Jeddah ceasefire proposal undercuts Europe’s anti-US hysteria
Western opinion makers frothing at the mouth in recent weeks over “America’s betrayal” and “Trump’s alliance with Russia” will have been dumbfounded…
Europe wants Trump to stand with them? Try free speech and toleration of dissent
European elites are furiously angry about President Donald Trump’s rapid shift away from the traditional transatlantic relationship.
French senate offers farrago of nonsense, a degenerate view of Western alliance
Few things could illustrate more clearly the total failure of the Euro-federalists to understand the legitimate political and strategic interests of the United States…
Millions on EU defence? Council tells von der Leyen, ‘Yeah, well, gonna think about it’
Since President Donald Trump re-entered the White House, the United States has been sending a clear signal to its European partners: “You need to do more to defend…
Morons writing half-wit stories: journalism now corrupted by leftie activists
Moronification: the educational process that turns promising, intelligent, and semi-sentient young people into fully-functional halfwits.
Elite’s delusions on Islamic terrorists allow mass killing, rape, enslavement
The late Bernard Lewis once noted that the West risks being perceived in the Middle East as "harmless as an enemy, and treacherous as a friend.
Corruption in Pakistan: A risk for South Asia’s stability and a threat for Europe
As Pakistan backs away from its anti-corruption transparency pledge, the consequences could ripple beyond its $7 billion IMF loan programme, threatening regional…
No more ‘Strong Gods’ in Europe: what men will volunteer to fight now?
Imagine being a frontline Ukrainian soldier on February 28th, having survived another nightmarish day of trench warfare with satellite enabled battlefield transparency,…
A friendly letter from the American heartland to our European allies
Hello Europe, I’d like to introduce you to America. No, not the America you know.
What happened when police questioned me for an alleged speech crime
A recent article by Carl Deconinck in Brussels Signal found French President Emmanuel Macron ordering the surveillance of libertarians, those of us sometimes called…
Courage lies in seeking peace, not in prolonging this war
As soon as Trump took the first steps toward fulfilling his campaign promise to end the war in Ukraine, proponents of confrontation with Russia rose as one across…
Before Trump, no one had a plan to bring Ukraine war to a conclusion
In the aftermath of the rather acrimonious meeting in the White House on Friday between President Zelensky of Ukraine and the president and vice president of the…
Europe still has no realistic plan on Ukraine
The emergency summit convened in London on Sunday by the UK prime minister, Sir Keir Starmer, was hailed as a major success – and in some ways it was.
Trump is Gary Cooper, the only sheriff who can confront the villain Putin
Oscars’ weekend, and the Oscar for best picture should really have gone to High Noon II, in which Europe replaced the US as the sheriff that confronts the villain…
Trump not ‘aligned with anybody’: how Europe can sell itself to America
In the onslaught of speeches, statements, and executive actions undertaken by the Trump administration, it is understandable that some in Europe may have missed…
US sees Europe caught in inertia and bureaucracy, obsolete and utterly stunned
JD Vance’s speech in Munich, universally condemned by those accustomed to the bureaucratic doublespeak of the Biden administration, is ultimately just the latest…
Europe cut out of the negotiating table, and no one who matters cares
Europe no longer has a place at the table. It is that simple.
Democracy in Romania: dissent against the EU is no longer tolerated
If you ever needed proof that democracy in the European Union is now little more than a stage play, Romania has just provided it. The protagonist? Călin Georgescu.
US stuns the UN: Trump will not vote for impossible return of Ukrainian territory
Childbirth can often be painful, a breach-delivery especially, and what the world is witnessing now is the agonising birth of an entirely reconfigured US foreign…