Chile turns rightward
The victory of Jose Antonio Kast confirms Latin America’s shift to the right
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Putin moves troops into Trump’s backyard
Putin has expressed ‘solidarity with the Venezuelan people’
Friday
The war in Ukraine is reaching its endgame
Holding elections in war-torn Ukraine will be no easy task
Bonnie Blue: I stand with Nigel Farage
I have sweet memories of Christmas. My dad is proper old-school and would set up the video recorder. I don’t think we’ve ever watched the footage; I don’t know if he was even filming. But we couldn’t do anything until it was filmed. We never had loads of money, but Mum always went above and beyond. There was gold wrapping paper for presents from Santa. My family say I’m impossible to buy for now I’m better off. This year, I’ve asked for Disney princess pajamas. Christmas is a time for me to give back. Last Christmas was a bit of a shock. I was due to be in Australia but
Will US businesses profit from a return to the Russian market?
Rome Will peace in Ukraine also prove to be a great deal for US business? Vladimir Putin would certainly like Donald Trump to think so. Within days of Trump’s election victory last November, the Kremlin ordered major Russian corporations to prepare detailed proposals for economic cooperation with Washington. Coordinating these efforts were Maxim Oreshkin, deputy head of Putin’s presidential administration, and Kirill Dmitriev, the US-educated Harvard, Stanford and Goldman Sachs alumnus who heads Russia’s sovereign investment fund. According to a major US investor in Russia who eyes a postwar return to the market, among the major Russian corporations setting out potential deals for US companies were Russia’s atomic energy agency
Thursday
Myanmar’s junta is lashing out
Losing its ability to win on the ground, the regime is now resorting to unconventional aerial attacks on civilians
Tuesday
What Ukraine really needs from Europe
Bear hugs and kind words are not enough
Thursday
Trump’s peace process pageantry
He oversaw the celebration of an accord between Rwanda and the Democratic Republic of Congo at the newly rebranded ‘Donald J. Trump Institute of Peace’
Tuesday
The steady erosion of academic rigor in German schools
Now, vague, homogenized curricula require little factual knowledge
Why are we so obsessed with Hitler’s penis?
There is a ‘small penis’ theory of history
Monday
Trump was right to snub Johannesburg’s G20 summit
South Africa’s corruption and human rights abuses are deplorable
Sunday
The downfall of Thomas King, Canada’s most influential ‘indigenous’ man
When King came to Canada, he was able not only to dine out on his purported indigenous background, but to make it the central facet of a lucrative career
Friday
Fact check: are the NYT’s experts right about UK immigration?
It looks like the British public are far more in tune with the realities of immigration than the so-called experts advising the US paper of record
How damaging could the Ukraine corruption scandal be for Zelensky?
The President’s top aide resigned after mounting pressure at home and abroad
Wednesday
Fact-checking the Venezuela war hawks
Proponents of regime change are throwing spaghetti at the wall to see what sticks
Tuesday
Trump team warned over London’s Chinese super-embassy
Nebraska politicians have warned that a planned embassy in London is a threat to the American financial system
Monday
Russia is willing to keep on fighting in Ukraine
As the Kremlin sees it, Russia is winning regardless
Friday
Zelensky risks coup or civil war
Chief among concerns is how the military might react to a bad deal
Tuesday
China has quietly taken over America’s food supply
The CCP is eating our farmland for breakfast
Why Europe can’t go it alone on Ukraine
The continent cannot afford to fund Kyiv’s war effort