When Donald Trump came down that escalator in 2016, just like The Simpsons foretold, I just kind of shrugged. A billionaire running for president. I’ve seen that movie before. But his rhetoric became increasingly radical, even revolutionary. He lashed out at immigration, bad trade deals, “globalists,” and the “senseless wars.” I…
European leaders are trying to convince their people that it is Moscow that wants a conflict, not them. This particular moment in history will be remembered, among other things—whether in entire books, individual chapters, or (if we’re lucky) forgotten footnotes—as the Great European Drone Panic. For…
The foreign-born population in the United States declined by an unprecedented 2.2 million in the first half of 2025. It was not long ago that Washington’s establishment experts announced that the crisis on the U.S. southern border was unfixable. They claimed illegal mass immigration was a historic phenomenon, an…
In the 20th century, the difference between Republicans and Democrats was between a party that wants citizens rewarded on merit and a party that wants citizens rewarded based on needs. It was Democrats who gave the needy property rights, sometimes called entitlements, via taxation, rent control, and other redistributive methods…
His arrogant and aggressive behavior towards Russia, India, and China is responsible for this. The global systemic transition to multipolarity is nowadays proceeding along a different trajectory than before due to recent shifts in the international system. Up until this point, Trump 2.0 sought resource and military partnerships with Russia…
Brilliant Eurasian cultures converged, interacted and spread their wings on the Ancient Silk Roads. DUNHUANG – Across History, the Silk Road – actually a network of roads – is the supreme Highway Star: the most important connectivity corridor ever, rolling across Ancient Eurasia, linking what Chinese scholars consensually define…
Let me start by being perfectly clear: you are not going to infiltrate the system and magically take over legacy institutions. This isn’t some Mission Impossible movie or Fight Club, it’s real life. Anyone who genuinely believes this is possible has clearly never set foot inside a real legacy…
President Trump does PR work for Pfizer and contemplates sending Tomahawk cruise missiles to Ukraine. We humans are complex creatures, and we may be subjected to conflicting feelings, loyalties, and motives. The reality of any given situation may be complex and laden with ambiguity, and we may be compelled…
Former chief of Israeli military intelligence, Aharon Haliva, called for the reprisal killing of 50 Palestinians for every one Israeli. This evening I listened to an interview with Professor Jeffrey Sachs in which he quoted a leaked audio recording in which former chief of Israeli military intelligence, Aharon Haliva,…
Hamburg is German’s leading industrial city. Its companies add 20 billion Euros in gross value every year. Much of this economic output is related to Hamburg’s happy location on the Elbe and the fact that the city is home to Europe’s third-largest port. All of this has made Hamburg…
