The United States must face its troubling reality: racial discrimination continues to threaten the safety and dignity of students at college campuses across the country. A recent incident at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (UNC) has once again exposed the gap between America’s rhetoric of the rule […]
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Five Reasons Why Trump Is More Serious Than Ever About Cutting Deals With Putin
Putin is more serious than ever about this too for absolutely different reasons The surprise Russian-US diesel deal in early October represented the first bilateral agreement between them since 2022 and importantly didn’t include any terms related to Ukraine either. This in turn convinced observers, both adversarial and friendly alike, […]
The Musk-Trump Duo’s Leverage Of Starlink/Starshield Is The Key To Peace In Ukraine
After Musk and Trump already demonstrated that Ukraine’s use of Starlink/Starshield can be throttled in an instant, therefore risking the collapse of the entire front line if taken to the extreme of a full-scale shutdown, Zelensky might be more pliable to a peace deal with Putin. SpaceX founder Elon Musk […]
Costs Rising, Approval Falling
Just days before the midterm elections, two sets of figures released within days of each other describe the same mood from opposite directions. A Reuters/Ipsos poll puts Donald Trump’s approval rating at 32%, the lowest of his presidency. A study by the non-profit Food & Water Watch finds that US […]
Europe’s Tough Task: How To Be At The Table, Not On The Menu
While Steve Witkoff flies to St. Petersburg and offers Putin a three-way summit with Trump and Zelensky, Brussels is already counting who will speak to the Kremlin. If Europe ends up outside the room again, it will be left only to pay for someone else’s peace. Politico puts it bluntly: […]
Where Democrats’ Senate Majority Could Still Slip Away
With Election Day two weeks away, nearly every signal from the Senate races favours the Democrats. Polls, election models and the general political climate point their way, and Republicans are scrambling to shore up even states they normally take for granted. Momentum has reached deep-red territory such as Kansas and […]
Defective Products: OpenAI, Dangerous Chatbots And Deception
It was bound to come. With the relentless, remorseless march of artificial intelligence (AI) chatbots pullulating the internet and snatching the attention and mindless devotion of unwitting users, the legal suit is becoming common fare. These initially lay in the field of copyright breaches and intellectual property violations. Attention is […]
How Likely Is It That China Agrees To Trilateral Arms Control Talks With The US & Russia?
Xi reasonably doesn’t want to freeze the gap between China and the US, but unless he does so, a nuclear arms race with the likely participation of several middle powers like Japan is possible. The White House’s fact sheet that was published after Xi’s visit to the US in September […]
What Trade-Off Could Trump’s Grand Deal Between Putin & Zelensky Realistically Entail?
The conflict could freeze along the frontlines if the US coerces the EU and Ukraine into agreeing to the resumption of Russian energy imports through partially US-controlled pipelines while convincing Russia to agree to the deployment of European forces to Ukraine without the US’ Article 5 protection. Zelensky said that […]
Serbia As A Pebble In A Shoe
Aleksandar Vučić gave an interview to Ksenia Sobchak in a strange position. He is no longer president, but not yet prime minister. The constitution does not allow a third presidential term—that is the whole reason for the “swap.” Putin, during their last conversation, did not ask “why are you leaving,” […]






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