By Vaibhav Raghunandan and Petras Katinas
Russian fossil fuel revenues rose for the first time in two months to cap the year, however coal exports crash to lowest level since the invasion
Key findings
- In 2024, Russian revenues…
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Dollars and Sense: America’s Interest in a Ukrainian Victory | American Enterprise Institute
Key Points
- Supporting Ukraine to victory against Russia is in the best interest of the United States.
- A world in which Russia prevails would be more dangerous and more expensive for…
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Europe could be torn apart by new divisions
Europe’s divisions were once simple. Fiscal policy and sunshine? That was a north-south carve-up: grey, abstemious north; sparkling, spendthrift south. Migration and wealth? Newcomers were mostly tolerated in the rich west and despised in the…
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Trump-Putin meeting in Alaska is a reminder that the 49th state was once a Russian territory
On Aug. 15, 2025, Russian President Vladimir Putin will meet with U.S. President Donald Trump in Alaska to discuss ending the war in Ukraine.
It will reportedly be the first time a Russian leader has set foot in Alaska since Russia sold…
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A disturbing pattern of repression is emerging in Europe | Opinions
In November, the Dutch political elite overwhelmingly sided with Israeli football fans after they went on a rampage in Amsterdam and provoked violence with local residents. The injustice did not stop at the twisted narrative Dutch politicians…
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Trump’s push to control Greenland echoes US purchase of Alaska from Russia in 1867
President-elect Donald Trump is again signaling his interest in Greenland through a series of provocative statements in which he’s mused about the prospect of the U.S. taking ownership – perhaps by force or economic coersion – of the
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The edge of anarchy – New Statesman
The world stands on a precipice, and the trends are not good. It was the United States whose economic wherewithal rescued Western civilisation in the Second World War and the Cold War. But whereas in 1945 the US…
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Neutrality: An Alternative to Ukraine’s Membership in NATO
Eugene Rumer is the director and senior associate for the Russia and Eurasia Program at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace.
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This Ukraine Policy Brief is part of the Council Special Initiative…
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Headless Europe: As the crises mount, the continent’s leaders are AWOL
BRUSSELS – Forget Europe. Were Henry Kissinger still alive, he’d be asking who to call to reach Germany, Belgium or even Bulgaria.
Around half a dozen countries in the European Union presently lack functioning governments. And with Ursula…
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