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NI: How Germany (foolishly) plans to fight a war with Russia 12:13 11.12.2025

NI: How Germany (foolishly) plans to fight a war with Russia

The leaked “OPLAN DEU” document, outlining how Germany could become NATO’s central hub of military planning against Russia, is a fascinating exercise in self-delusion. “Europhoria” is a term I created several years ago to describe the excessively exuberant view that most European elites had of their otherwise bleak geopolitical situation, …
Russia-Indonesia talks 19:58 10.12.2025

Russia-Indonesia talks

Vladimir Putin held talks with President of the Republic of Indonesia Prabowo Subianto, who is in Moscow on a working visit. The agenda included matters related to the further development of Russia-Indonesia strategic partnership, as well as current international and regional developments, Kremlin informs. The Kremlin, Moscow, December 10, 2025 …
View from London: A crisis over using frozen Russian assets to help Ukraine 10:18 10.12.2025

View from London: A crisis over using frozen Russian assets to help Ukraine

It’s an old-style Euro punch-up in a deadly new context, ‘The Economist’ is mocking. London is the setting of this week’s first important meeting in the interminable succession of summits that now attend the war in Ukraine. Volodymyr Zelensky is flying in to meet, on December 8th, Friedrich Merz of …
7 takeaways from POLITICO’s interview with President Trump 10:17 10.12.2025

7 takeaways from POLITICO’s interview with President Trump

President Donald Trump is closing out his first year in office, feeling bullish about how he has reshaped the economy and the world even as allies abroad and supporters at home raise increasing concern about who, exactly, his policies stand to benefit. Republican pollsters and operatives, including those supportive of …
View from Switzerland: Does NATO still exist? 10:16 10.12.2025

View from Switzerland: Does NATO still exist?

For the first time in decades, an American Secretary of State is skipping a NATO meeting. The signal is clear and deliberate: America has other priorities than the security of our continent. It would be a future in which the first two letters of the acronym NATO — the alliance's …
View from New York: Impotent Europeans can only fume as Trump rightly sidelines them from Ukraine deal 10:14 10.12.2025

View from New York: Impotent Europeans can only fume as Trump rightly sidelines them from Ukraine deal

Failure has many fathers, but success is an orphan. This upends the usual state of affairs, but when it comes to the Ukraine war, the Europeans have upended how affairs of state are usually run, ‘The New York Post’ stresses. In February, it will be four years since Russia invaded …
Foreign Ministry Spokeswoman Maria Zakharova on the US’s new National Security Strategy 21:54 09.12.2025

Foreign Ministry Spokeswoman Maria Zakharova on the US’s new National Security Strategy

Foreign Ministry Spokeswoman Maria Zakharova’s answers to media questions regarding the US’s new National Security Strategy. Question: On December 4, the Trump administration released its latest, and largely new, National Security Strategy. This time, it appears to move away from the stereotypes and precepts of the previous US strategic documents. …
Thailand and Cambodia are at war again. Trump's Peace Plan is forgotten... 10:21 09.12.2025

Thailand and Cambodia are at war again. Trump's Peace Plan is forgotten...

Thai F-16s hit Cambodia in blow to Trump-backed Peace Plan, Bloomberg writes. Thailand and Cambodia have again accused each other of firing first in a fresh round of fighting along their restive border, weeks after the two countries signed an agreement, which President Trump helped mediate, making a commitment to …
NI: America just quietly admitted it can’t crush Russia’s economy 10:18 09.12.2025

NI: America just quietly admitted it can’t crush Russia’s economy

The United States and its allies are finally coming to terms with the tragic reality that their support of Ukraine will not be enough to help the Ukrainians defeat the Russians. In a recent interview, US Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent declared that the repeated sanctions — particularly by the European …
View from Delhi: European ambassadors defamed in India - this is not diplomacy, but ‘monkey business’ 10:16 09.12.2025

View from Delhi: European ambassadors defamed in India - this is not diplomacy, but ‘monkey business’

The initiative of the three European envoys to write an article in an Indian daily maligning Putin and Russia just before the Russian president's visit served no real purpose. It was diplomatically unwarranted, stresses Kanwal Sibal, the former Foreign Secretary to the Government of India, Ambassador to Turkey, Egypt, France …
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