STRATEGIC ALERT Service

The speeches and discussions by Europeans at this year’s annual Munich Security Conference (MSC) held February 13-15 conveyed one central message: the geopoliticians who continue to define policy in most European countries will keep pushing their vast and costly rearmament program, under the pretext of becoming able one day to wage war against Russia. The views expressed by Secretary of […]

At the Feb. 12 informal EU summit in Belgium’s Alden Biesen castle, the site of a former headquarters of the Teutonic Order, German Chancellor Friedrich Merz blocked the initiative, led by French President Emmanuel Macron, to take a further step toward the construction of a European federal state, through the creation of a common debt to finance rearmament. But not […]

At least some European leaders have begun to recognize the need to talk directly to Russian officials, if only to have some say in how the war in Ukraine will be resolved. In addition to French President Macron, who had sent a top diplomat, Emmanuel Bonne, to Moscow in January, Swiss Foreign Minister Ignazio Cassis was in the Russian capital […]

With the intense media focus on the degeneracy of the circle of wealthy and powerful British establishment figures associated with convicted criminal Jeffrey Epstein, pressure is growing on Prime Minister Keir Starmer to resign. Epstein is, in reality, a minor figure in the mega-scandal of the overall corruption of the City of London, but the stories of his abuse of […]

Not yet three weeks after U.S. President Trump’s Jan. 29 Executive Order declared that any country which “directly or indirectly sells or otherwise provides any oil to Cuba” will face economic retaliation, the effects inside the island country — already subjected to 60 years of a U.S. embargo — are unbearable. Hospitals are reducing all but emergency services; families are […]

The corruption, the depravity, the obsequiousness of western elites to money and power that the Epstein files have brought to light have shocked and demoralized many, who tend to despair of ever getting out of the morass. However, that system of blackmail and power should not be a surprise to those who are familiar with the nature of the modern […]

On Feb. 5, the New START Treaty regulating nuclear weapons arsenals and other relevant transparency agreements was allowed to expire, with nothing to replace it. The same day, independent U.S. presidential candidate Diane Sare held a press conference, titled “For a New New START,” to discuss a way out of the deep strategic crisis the world faces. Talk show host […]

On February 5, the only remaining agreement in force limiting the nuclear arsenals of the United States and Russia expired, after President Trump de facto ignored President Putin’s offer to renew the New START Treaty for one year, pending a replacement. That offer was rejected despite widespread opposition worldwide, including an unusual plea from Pope Leo XIV and another from […]

How many people you know have been led to believe that the “corrupt and autocratic regime” in Tehran is about to crumble from within, due to huge popular protests culminating in the killing of “tens of thousands of demonstrators” in January? Such is the line put out by the mainstream media for weeks now, while the EU imposed even more […]

A letter that was delivered to the Federal Chancellery on the evening of Feb. 5 contains scathing criticism of Chancellor Friedrich Merz, in particular of his economic policy. The author of the letter is Christoph Ahlhaus, chairman of the German Association for Small and Medium-sized Businesses (BVMW). Entrepreneurs in Germany reacted with great hope when Merz took office in May […]