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Musk’s top DOGE operative is linked to a Russian American network of anti-West pro-Kremlin monarchists inspired by the 1930s counter-democracy “Technocracy” movement, of which Musk’s grandfather was a member
If liberal centrists on both sides of the Atlantic simply keep waiting for politics to return to "normal" they risk a very rude awakening, argues Neal Lawson
If Europeans come from Venus, Peter Jukes observes, it’s only because they are aware (unlike Elon Musk) of the bleak devastation of Mars
Hardeep Matharu dissects what the now infamous Oval Office meeting with Volodymyr Zelensky revealed about the American President’s approach – and speaks to political scientist Brian Klaas about why his ‘alternative realities’ don’t stack up against real-world complexities
Former EU Trade Negotiator John Clarke on how to counter the method behind the madness of current US trade policy
For all its chaos in operation, Trump's regime has a strategic rationale and must be fought strategically, argues Jon Bloomfield
In his regular dispatch from Kyiv, Chris York explains how US actions feel like a complete betrayal in the interests of Putin
Keir Starmer's attempts to be an "honest broker" with Donald Trump are doomed to failure, argues Adam Bienkov
With the increasingly bizarre compliance of the US President to the Russian President, Zarina Zabrisky wonders if the KGB/FSB tradition of assassination and mafia-style intimidation may be key