Articles from ‘Independent News Roundup’ in ‘Geopolitics’

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 Somodevilla/Getty…

The emerging narrative is that Ukraine might have won had he climbed the escalation ladder faster. · Andrew Korybko · Ukraine’s impending defeat, in the sense of failing to reconquer all of its lost territory by the end of the ongoing conflict, has sparked a blame game about who’s responsible for this epic debacle. Senior fellow at the liberal Atlantic Council think tank Adrian Karatnycky published a piece at Foreign Policy in…

An AfD co-leader has stated the obvious – that pouring money into the Ukraine war is killing the German economy. But will anyone listen? · https://www.rt.com/op-ed/authors/tarik-cyril-amar/ByTarik Cyril Amar, a historian from Germany working at Koç University, Istanbul, on Russia, Ukraine, and Eastern Europe, the history of World War II, the cultural Cold War, and the politics of…

No one is safe from the ‘Russian propaganda’ sanctions – even those who never touch Russian sources By Eva Bartlett, a Canadian independent journalist. She has spent years on the ground covering conflict zones in the Middle East, especially in Syria and Palestine (where she lived for nearly four years). https://www.rt.com/op-ed/authors/eva-bartlett/@evakbartlett · European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen. ©  Antonio…

Astute observers can read between the lines and discern Russia’s displeasure with him too. · Andrew Korybko · Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov’s first press conference of the year in late January touched upon a lot of topics, importantly including the Europeans’ plot to subvert Trump’s Ukrainian peace plan. According to him, the UK “is speaking increasingly more often on behalf of the EU” and therefore plays a leading role in these…

The West must accept this reality, or there will be war in Europe, the Hungarian prime minister has warned · Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban ©  Arpad Kurucz / Anadolu via Getty Images · [RT] NATO and the European Union would do well to accept the fact that Russia will never allow them to come close to its borders, Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban has said. He also argued that Ukraine should serve as a “buffer…

Promethean Updates · In this episode, Barbara Boyd discusses the ramifications following President Trump's landmark move at Davos to replace the globalist order with a new 'Board of Peace.' Highlighting the failure of the United Nations and the beginning of a new era in international diplomacy, the video covers Trump's novel approach to resolving the Israeli-Palestinian conflict and his broader strategy involving world leaders. Featuring…

This final “Line of Effort” underpins the preceding three regarding the Western Hemisphere, the Indo-Pacific, and burden-sharing, all of which are being pursued in furtherance of Trump 2.0’s grand strategic goal of restoring the US’ predominant position over the world, including over China and Russia. · Andrew Korybko · Trump 2.0 just released its National Defense Strategy (NDS) two months after its National Security Strategy (NSS), and as…

The Sino-Indo rapprochement is still in its infancy, their territorial disputes remain unresolved, and India is under lots of pressure from the US nowadays. · Andrew Korybko · Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov declared during his first press conference of the year that Moscow wants to revive the Russia-India-China (RIC) format. In his words, “[RIC] still exists – though it has not convened in some time – but has not been…

Trump might claim that building “Golden Dome” infrastructure there, possibly with the partial purpose of serving as a cover for deploying new offensive weapons systems in the Arctic for targeting Russia and China, is required for plugging the gap between the world’s largest island and Alaska. · Andrew Korybko · Trump framed his desired acquisition of Greenland as indispensable to his “Golden Dome” missile defense megaproject and hinted at…