Brussels imposes its 18th package — and Moscow laughs all the way to the bank       The European Union has once again put on its favourite performance: grandstanding with yet another “sanctions package” against Russia — the 18th one, no less.   And just like the 17 that came before it, this one […]

Europe wanted Russia out. Now it gets to deal with Al-Qaeda in power. Good luck with that.     Yesterday we called it Libya 2.0.   Today, the reality is even uglier: Syria has become the EU’s Frankenstein, a failed geopolitical experiment built on delusion, arrogance, and blood.   Europe cheered when Bashar al-Assad’s government […]

In a stunning blow to Western ambitions in Eastern Europe, Russian forces have seized control of the lithium mine that Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky had once promised to former U.S. President Donald Trump as part of a controversial mineral-rights deal.     The mine, located in a region now under Russian control, was touted as […]