By Conor Gallagher While incoming Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni and her Brothers of Italy Party (Fdl) certainly provide plenty of nationalist and culture war sound bites, they will ultimately be forced to follow EU and NATO marching orders, or they won’t be in power very long. Now that two cabinet picks from Meloni and […]
Read more...Diesel fuel is in scarcer supply than ever. Shortages coming?
Read more...Sir Lawrence Freedman declares victory for Ukraine is inevitable because Putin.
Read more...By Conor Gallagher Much like Ankara, Belgrade has tried to stay above the fray in the conflict between NATO and Russia. While Serbia doesn’t share the same geographic significance and isn’t a member of NATO like Turkey, it is one of Russia’s strongest allies in Europe, and is now receiving the same pressure to choose […]
Read more...The European Union faces recession, but the way in which policymakers manage the energy crisis will determine its depth and duration.
Read more...The UK is in sorry shape…..and is looking like the canary in the economic coal mine.
Read more...By Conor Gallagher As the political situation in Bosnia and Herzegovina continues to deteriorate, it’s looking increasingly likely that NATO forces will return to the country as Washington’s answer to a problem it has created. Questions over the integrity of the October 2 election are ratcheting up tensions in the ethnically-divided country. On top of […]
Read more...The sanctions war situation has developed not necessarily to America’s advantage.
Read more...The Russian investigation of the Kerch brigde bombing claims that a grain transport ship out of Odessa moved the explosives.
Read more...Another apparent act of sabotage in Germany, yet the press is peculiarly refusing to play “whodunnit”.
Read more...Too many are putting their eggs in the LNG basket.
Read more...the EU using an obscure steel secondary sanction to whack Türkiye?
Read more...The dire and worsening state of Urkraine’s electricity supply has gone curiously unnoticed by Western commentators.
Read more...By Conor Gallagher At the beginning of this year there were four pipelines carrying natural gas from Russia to Europe, and a fifth (Nord Stream 2) was about to come online. Now Nord Stream 1 and 2 are dead, the Yamal Pipeline is closed, and the amount of gas flowing through Ukraine is greatly diminished. […]
Read more...Regulators largely ignore the cloud services industry, despite high concentration, lack of transparency, and potential for predation.
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