Once more, wars abroad threaten domestic reform.

Instead of trying to find an exit strategy from the wars in Ukraine and Israel, the neocons are actively preparing for a third one and they are trying to instil a sense of urgency in everyone to jump into the abyss with them.

In a new interview, legendary US diplomat Chas Freeman discusses the current state of NATO.

The great Russian novels provoke a strong sense of attachment and identification.

In Washington, truth is reckoned as the greatest enemy of democracy. Hard facts are deadly threats to a president’s prerogative to define reality and impose “the will of the people.”

A hundred years ago, discussions began about Oswald Spengler’s book “The Decline of the Western World.” (The book is better known as The Decline of Europe.) After the First World War and revolutionary upheavals, the Western world was dominated by sentiments of pessimism and decadence, and Spengler’s views were in tune with the social atmosphere.

As the proxy war winds down and all players begin preparing for the post-conflict future, whenever it comes to pass, it’s worthwhile to once again share this fact in order to reduce the chances that any of his people fall for the West’s plot to turn them and Ukrainians into irredeemable enemies.

One of the leitmotivs of Russian state television news and analysis programs over the past year has been the degradation of American and other Western elites.

Recently, Yahoo Finance had a headline on YouTube: Oil prices tick up over Red Sea attacks, disruptions. In the video, they talk about the effects of the war between Israel and Hamas and how it effects oil prices. In particular, oil prices have been going up recently, given the higher cost of shipping through the Suez Canal.

I’m fond of quoting the Duke of Wellington on intelligence: “All the business of war, and indeed all the business of life, is to endeavour to find out what you don’t know by what you do; that’s what I called ‘guessing what was at the other side of the hill.’“