On February 28th, 2025, US President Trump and his Ukrainian counterpart Volodymyr Zelensky met at the Oval Office, scheduled to sign the...

Illustration by Will Allen/Europinion In The Open Society and its Enemies  Karl Popper spoke of "Social Engineering" as a tool applied...

Are Putin and Trump going to end the Russia-Ukraine War with a game of ice hockey? It’s highly unlikely. But this is what the two leaders...

Illustration by Will Allen/Europinion To say that Russia has a serious “cultural projection” problem seems trivial at this moment.  After...

Illustration by Will Allen/Europinion Hold onto your hats. This week, I’m going to praise Keir Starmer. Sort of. Before plunging back...

Hay’at Tahrir al-Sham (HTS ) is now indubitably entrenched as the unlikely victor of the Syrian Civil War. Formerly known as the Nusra...

Illustration by Will Allen/Europinion Earlier this month, Alphabet, the owner of Google, altered its AI principles  to remove a promise...

Ukraine could fall – and it will be Donald Trump’s fault. This is my second article of the week. That’s unusual, but I’m afraid I’m at...

Illustration by Will Allen/Europinion Trump’s electoral rhetoric on peace in Ukraine is materialising in typical Trump style, albeit...

Illustration by Will Allen/Europinion On February 12, 2025, US President Donald Trump revealed that he had a call with Russian  ...

The climate crisis is amongst the greatest existential threats facing humanity. Yet we seem to have done very little about it. Despite...

Illustration by Will Allen Oh dear. Trump’s gone rogue. Again. I doubt even The Simpsons  predicted such a seismic shift in US foreign...

Living in Daugavpils, the largest Russian-speaking settlement in the EU, it is hard to ignore the sticky political situation. Despite its...

Over a thousand days have passed since the beginning of Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine . As the conflict has developed, the...

A sleepless night watching the fall of Syria’s Assad dynasty unfold in the early hours of Sunday 8th December precipitated this piece,...

Israel, a regional power often lauded for its technological prowess and political dominance of the region has once again met its match...

The sweeping victory of Donald Trump in the US election, taking all 7 swing states  and the popular vote against US Vice-President Kamala...

In a significant escalation of the Syrian Civil War, insurgent forces have breached Aleppo, Syria's largest city, for the first time...

The ongoing conflict between Russia and Ukraine escalated dramatically on 28 November as Russia launched a wide-ranging missile and drone...

On October 30 2024, the President of the United States met with President Nikos Christodoulides of the Republic of Cyprus at the White...