You may want to take note of this recent quote by Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban: ”The armed conflict in Ukraine will continue until 2030, as a result, Ukraine will lose half of its territory, and the EU will cease to exist by that moment. This conflict could have been local, but due to the intervention of…
It’s tempting to interpret the Italian electoral results this past Sunday as voters merrily hurling a bowl of lush papardelle with wild boar ragu over the collective bland faces of the toxic unelected Euro-oligarchy sitting in Brussels. Well, it’s complicated. Italy’s electoral system is all about coalitions. The center-right Meloni-Berlusconi-Salvini troika is bound to amass…
It’s Italy which will fire the starter’s gun on a turnaround on the EU’s policy on Russia and the Ukraine war. It might well be Italy which marks the starting point of a demise of sorts of the EU, as the coalition government collapses. Mario Draghi, who might be remembering interest rate hikes like the…
Italian Prime Minister Mario Draghi is out. He tendered his resignation to President Sergio Mattarella. Mattarella is refusing for now. There will be another confidence vote. It shouldn’t matter. As is always the case with Italian politics, the story is always far murkier than the headline. The headline is Five Star Movement (M5S) leader Giuseppe…
No reader should be under the false impression that any of what was written in this analysis is guaranteed to happen, nor that it reflects the author’s preferred end game. Rather, they should be reminded that this is simply a scenario forecast that’s admittedly speculating on the contents of what might be the ceasefire proposal…
Everyone is aware of the Iron Curtain speech delivered by Winston Churchill. However, it is not Churchill who is the originator of the phrase. “You had to attack civilians, the people, women, children, unknown people far from any political game. The reason was quite simple – to force the people to turn to the state…
