Today marks the third anniversary of Russian dictator Vladimir Putin’s brutal full-scale war against Ukraine. Actually, it’s an escalation of a frozen conflict in Donbas that has lasted since 2014. That’s when Putin’s Russia first seized parts of Ukraine through the annexation of the Crimean peninsula and areas in Donbas. The number of people…
U.S. Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth said that it is unrealistic that Ukraine can regain its pre-2014 borders. Furthermore, he said that Ukraine will not become a member of NATO. This was one of the things he said during the NATO Contact Group for Ukraine. He went on to say that a lasting peace…
The Katyn massacre is actually a series of massacres carried out by the Soviet Union against Polish military and police officers. The massacre was named after the Katyn forest, where German soldiers discovered mass graves after executions as early as 1943. The series of massacres also included mass executions in Soviet prisons. The executions…
Whether the man is stupid or crazy, I don’t know. But Trump’s statement that he wants to take over the Gaza Strip joins the ranks of extremely stupid statements from the US President. There may be two reasons why he wants to take over Gaza, one is that the US controls the small strip…
As promised during the election campaign, Donald Trump will increase tariffs on imported goods from a number of countries. The reasons are varied, but what they all have in common is that they are vicarious motives. The real reason is to finance tax cuts. Crumbs of the tax cuts will benefit ordinary Americans, the…
Forcing Palestinians to leave Gaza is clearly something Trump thinks is smart. He could just as easily say that he wants Israel to annex the area. Forcibly moving a people to another area is tantamount to asking for even more trouble. Trump’s desire to deport Palestinians to Jordan and Egypt is not well received…