Here is a statement of American strategic priorities: “The United States cannot survive as a free and independent nation if a hostile power dominates any region of the world from which it could threaten the US.
On Thursday, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky faces an impossible choice.
Michelle Shocked’s 1988 song ‘Anchorage’ tells of old friends whose lives diverged.
When NATO was founded in 1949, Europe and America worked as genuine partners.
Was it really an “excellent” phone call with Russia’s dictator, Vladimir Putin?
Last Tuesday, Friedrich Merz looked fatally wounded before his time in office had even properly begun.
One hundred days into Donald Trump’s second presidency, his economic nationalism has produced an unexpected consequence.
The United States is in turmoil, and so is its currency.
There is a devil in European literature who claims an unexpected virtue: he intends evil but accomplishes good.
There is something tragic about watching the United States deliberately harm itself – especially when the damage spills over to everyone else.President Trump’s ‘Liberation Day’ trade tariffs are a disaster for America and the world.
© Dr Oliver Hartwich