Expedition Earth
(Part II)

The US can no longer run the world, so it’s trying to lock down Europe *By **Timofey Bordachev**, Program Director of the Valdai Club* *US President Donald Trump speaks while (L-R) Italy's Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni, British Prime Minister Keir Starmer, and Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney listen during a summit of European and Middle Eastern leaders on Gaza, October 13, 2025, Sharm El-Sheikh, Egypt. ©  Chip…

The Kremlin has not commented on the supposed ‘energy ceasefire’ *US President Donald Trump speaks during a cabinet meeting at the White House, January 29, 2026, in Washington. ©  AP Photo/Evan Vucci* [RT] US President Donald Trump has claimed that Russia will not attack targets in Kiev and other Ukrainian cities *“for a week.”* Trump said that the decision came after he *“personally asked”* Russian President Vladimir Putin to…

The idea is unworkable due to NATO’s role, the bloc’s foreign policy and security chief Kaja Kallas has said *RT composite. ©  Getty Images/Emmanuele Contini;Thierry Monasse* The idea of a unified European army as advocated by Ukraine’s Vladimir Zelensky is unworkable because many EU states are also members of NATO, the economic bloc’s foreign policy and security chief Kaja Kallas has said. Zelensky called for a…

History teaches us that wars are not always fought with bombs, troops, or formal declarations. Some are waged quietly — through systems, policies, and narratives that reshape societies from within. So let us pose a hypothetical, not an accusation ### If an adversary wanted to weaken Western democracies without firing a shot, what outcomes would signal success? They might aim to: normalise emergency rule, centralise decision-making beyond…

Shahid Butt has urged his young supporters to knock their enemies’ “teeth out” *Shahid Butt speaks to the Core LIbrary podcast, 2025 © YouTube / Core Library* [RT] A convicted Islamist terrorist is running for local office in the British city of Birmingham. Shahid Butt has urged voters to overlook his past *“mistakes,”* which include conspiring to bomb the British consulate in Yemen. In an interview with Birmingham Live this week, Butt…