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The final approval of the long-conceived Bridge over the Strait of Messina (“Messina Bridge”) Project by the Italian government on Aug. 6, has produced a wave of happiness and enthusiasm among Italian patriots, and conniption fits among Transatlantic elites. The Messina Bridge is a major component of the North-South “Corridor 5” of the Trans-European network, aimed at getting Europe closer […]

Whereas British PM Keir Starmer kept a low profile at the White House meeting Aug. 18, the power of the British Establishment to derail the U.S.-Russia dialogue should not be underestimated. A key member of that establishment, former MI6 director Sir Richard Dearlove, described the perspective of a long-term peace as “very dangerous” in an article on his One Decision […]

Made irrelevant by the Anchorage meeting of the Presidents of the U.S. and of Russia, will the European “Coalition of the Willing” rethink their maximalist anti-Russian position which has been exposed as a dead-end street? At least verbally so far, German Chancellor Friedrich Merz has publicly acknowledged that the pre-Anchorage position is untenable. In an August 16 interview on ZDF […]

  Speaking on the La7 television channel program “In Onda” on Aug. 13, UN Special Rapporteur on Palestine Francesca Albanese said it is wrong to say that the international community, as a community of states, is in shocking paralysis over Netanyahu’s criminal action against Gaza. “We say this and see it because of the Eurocentric view we continue to have […]

While the mainstream newspapers and tv networks maintain a “deafening silence” on the affair, as the Director of National Intelligence (DNI) Tulsi Gabbard told Fox TV, her office continues to publish explosive papers that prove the complicity of Obama’s intelligence team in the attempted coup called “Russiagate”. On Aug. 13, her office released declassified intelligence documents demonstrating the treasonous role […]

French intelligence, in cahoots with multinational companies, stands  accused of orchestrating an attempted coup in Mali, a member state of the Confederation of Sahel States, together with Burkina Faso and Niger. The attempt was foiled following the arrest of two Malian generals and 40 servicemen, as well as a French national earlier this month. “This did not come as a […]

President Trump’s approach to diplomacy has kept the world guessing as to what his next steps will be. And that has created a highly volatile and potentially dangerous situation. He has issued threats to Brazil, India, the EU and many others on trade tariffs, but the most alarming escalation has been against Russia. At the end of this week, on […]

Josep Borrell, the foreign affairs chief of the European Union from 2019-2024, wrote a scathing indictment of European nations in an op-ed published Aug. 1 in the Guardian: “There can be little doubt that the Israeli government is committing genocide in Gaza, slaughtering and starving civilians after systematically destroying all the infrastructure in the territory”, Borrell wrote. “In the meantime, […]

In a statement on the 50th anniversary of the signing of the Helsinki Accords on Aug. 1, 1975, Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov reiterated the Russian call for a new security architecture for Europe and Russia in the spirit of 1975. However, he also had some pointed remarks on the Organisation for Security and Coooperation in Europe (OSCE), which grew […]

Dmitry Trenin is the Director of the Moscow-based Institute of World Military Economy and Strategy at the Higher School of Economics (HSE) University, and a widely acknowledged expert on Russia’s foreign policy. He was a featured speaker at the international Schiller Institute conference in Berlin on July 12, 2025. At the Berlin event, Dmitry Trenin focused his remarks, delivered live […]