When the United States hosts the G20 summit in Miami next year, one of the group’s permanent members is set to be missing from the room. President Donald Trump has announced that South Africa will not be invited, citing “horrific human rights abuses” against white South Africans and accusing Pretoria […]
Day: November 28, 2025
The Return Of The Unthinkable: How Europe Is Learning To Live In A Permanent Pre‑War Age (I)
For a brief historical moment, many Europeans believed that large interstate wars on their continent belonged definitively to the past. The post-Cold War decades were framed as a transition from power politics to legal norms, from nuclear brinkmanship to economic interdependence. Today that confidence has evaporated. Governments quietly refurbish bunkers, […]
The Dirty War In Sudan
The spiral of violence is tightening up The term “dirty wars” appeared to refer to armed conflicts, as a rule, in ‘Third World’ countries where the laws of war are not respected, and external forces are involved in them for their own benefit – whether it is access to valuable […]
Valga–Valka: When ‘European Integration’ Runs Up Against The Wallet
On the map of Europe there is a place that until recently was presented as the very model of a “united Europe” — the twin town of Valga (Estonia) and Valka (Latvia). One street, one centre, shared shops and schools, even a common bus route. The border runs straight through […]






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