


An Inuit proverb says: “Even the strongest eagle cannot fly higher than the stars.” But this truth does not apply to Trump. If one cannot soar higher, then the star must be brought down to earth. And that is what…

General Oleksandr Syrskyi, Commander-in-Chief of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, has issued a clear warning: Russia remains committed to achieving its strategic objective of subjugating Ukraine, and Kyiv must therefore prepare for a war that could extend well beyond the…

When European leaders gather to discuss the fate of Ukraine, they now do so with an ever-present unease: the spectre of Viktor Orbán. The Hungarian Prime Minister, once a champion of European integration, has in recent years cultivated a posture…

The phrase “security guarantees” has reverberated across European capitals for months, echoing through parliamentary speeches, summit communiqués and interviews with diplomats. It has become the polite euphemism of the age: a term that sounds solid, perhaps even reassuring, but whose…

South Korea has quietly fought off a barrage of assaults this year — not with missiles or tanks, but with firewalls and cyber specialists. The revelation that its military faced 9,200 cyberattacks in the first half of 2025 alone, a…

The Alaskan summit between Donald Trump and Vladimir Putin was less a diplomatic negotiation than an episode of The Apprentice: Geopolitics Edition. Trump, grinning like a compare about to deliver a catchphrase, called the talks “productive.” That word, in his…

There is a grim and unwelcome truth that Europe’s political class has been studiously avoiding for far too long: the continent is not ready for a war it may not have the luxury to avoid. Russian aggression, once dismissed as…

In what Downing Street is triumphantly branding a “breakthrough” in the battle against illegal Channel crossings, Britain has begun detaining its first group of migrants under a freshly inked pilot agreement with France. Migrants arriving via small boats are now…

There are few figures in modern British political history more maligned—or more vindicated—than Enoch Powell. For decades, his name has been shorthand for political infamy, a cautionary tale of a man who dared to speak the unspeakable. Yet, as Britain…

A series of Ukrainian drone strikes have targeted key infrastructure inside the Russian Federation, marking one of the most extensive cross-border operations by Ukraine in recent months. The attacks, reported in Samara and Ryazan regions, hit oil refineries, military plants,…