Governance weakens as geopolitics hardens
Subscribe nowwith a one-month trial for only $1, then enjoy the first year at an exclusive rate of just $99. Zelensky’s war strategy falters as his political grip starts to slip James Davis reports that Ukraine’s defenses are crumbling as Russian forces advance across multiple fronts, with Pokrovsk and Kupyansk near collapse. Kyiv’s leadership remains…
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Zelensky’s war strategy falters as his political grip starts to slip
James Davis reports that Ukraine’s defenses are crumbling as Russian forces advance across multiple fronts, with Pokrovsk and Kupyansk near collapse. Kyiv’s leadership remains in denial, betting on attrition and Western backing even as corruption scandals mount and Valerii Zaluzhnyi emerges as a potential successor.
Germany edges toward lawfare as Steinmeier takes aim at the AfD
Diego Faßnacht writes that President Frank-Walter Steinmeier’s warning against “right-wing extremism” marks a politicization of his office and fuels the AfD’s anti-establishment narrative. Berlin’s moral-legal crackdown risks deepening polarization just as economic stagnation, migration tensions, and coalition fatigue erode Germany’s political center.
Takaichi triggers a crisis in relations with China over Taiwan
Scott Foster reports that Japanese Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi’s remark calling a Chinese blockade of Taiwan a “survival-threatening situation” for Japan provoked fury in Beijing and exposed rifts within her Cabinet. US backing was swift, but China’s retaliation could test Tokyo’s economy – and its diplomacy – far more than its rhetoric.
