The testy slap-down by US President Donald Trump to the idea of a European army was telling. Any notion of the Europeans stepping away from American “protection” would be anathema to Washington. That’s because American power is not about “protecting” Europe. That’s just the vainglorious, propaganda mythology. In reality, it’s all about Washington maintaining a lucrative…
French President Macron rebuked the concept of ‘nationalism’ during Armistice Day celebrations marking the end of WWI. At the same time, his government was pondering the merits of empire and building an all-European army. Donald Trump’s trip to France got off to a bumpy start, and the world is still experiencing the turbulence today. Ahead…
Right now, we live in a monopolar world. Here is how U.S. President Barack Obama proudly, even imperially, described it when delivering the Commencement address to America’s future generals, at West Point Military Academy, on 28 May 2014: The United States is and remains the one indispensable nation. [Every other nation is therefore ‘dispensable’; we…
The big push is on to convert Greece into a bastion of liberal democracy and godlessness. At least this is what the latest news from Athens presages. Prime Minister Alexis Tspiras may have gone one step too far in his quest to undermine the Orthodox church. Already under fire for failing at nearly every one…
French President Macron decried the so-called “nationalist leprosy” that he claims is sweeping the continent. He ominously likened the contemporary circumstances to 1920s Europe in obviously implying that the EuroRealist wave that’s been spreading all across the EU might lead to a revival of Nazism, but he went even further by fearmongering about US, Russian,…
While some of President Lukashenko’s recent statements reaffirmed his country’s military and political alliance with Moscow, others threw it under the bus by dismissing the regular talk in Russia about a possible base in Belarus as baseless, implying that his neighbor exports hybrid threats to the West through its territory, and expressing his eagerness to…
