Understanding What Causes Loneliness — It’s Not Necessarily Being Alone
Research has shown how isolation or loneliness can cause mental and physical ailments. Being alone is an objective state but feeling lonely is a fuzzier predicament. One recurring trait among lonesome people is a sense that nobody really cares about them anymore.
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Focus: Russia-Ukraine War
Why Putin Still Tolerates The “Z” Critics — And Why It Won’t Last
In Putin’s Russia, dissent is silenced. Yet pro-war “Z” bloggers and influencers insult and lambast military failures constantly, and go unpunished. The state tolerates them because without these defiant voices knitting the war machine’s lifelines, Russia’s offensive would stall.
Ukraine’s Dark Summer: Putin Aggressive, Trump Fickle
Russia has carried out its largest missile and drone bombardment since launching its invasion of Ukraine. And it is preparing its summer offensive, while Donald Trump remains ambivalent about the continuation of his military aid, when the contracts signed by Joe Biden expire over the summer.
Is Russia An Existential Threat? German Leaders Can’t Have It Both Ways
Chancellor Merz and Foreign Minister Wadephul warn of direct threats from Moscow on the lives of people in Germany, and yet hesitate to back their words with the kind of support Ukraine urgently needs to avoid that Putin goes further.
Russia’s “Inside” Base – How Afraid Should We Be Of Kaliningrad?
This small but strategically located Russian exclave is the most militarized area in Europe. Much of the continent remains within range of Kaliningrad’s Iskander missiles which allows Russia to keep NATO in check. What is the real potential of the Russian military forces stationed just beyond our northern border?
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The Migrants Caught In The Escalating Polish-German Border Standoff
As Poland reinstates border checks with Germany and Lithuania over immigration concerns, experts warn that the situation at the Polish-German border increasingly unregulated, threatening the life…
Mossad Is Still In Iran — And The Real Reason For Netanyahu’s Washington Trip
As Netanyahu visits Washington, Israel’s intelligence gears up for a covert campaign against Iran, aiming not just at military targets but at the very core of…
They Say Trump Is Destroying The World Order — What World Order?
The so-called “liberal international order” was neither very orderly nor very liberal, nor even very international. Rebuilding from the current troubling state of the world means being clear-eyed…
Fidias Has The Floor? An Influencer’s “Prank” Election Shakes Up The European Parliament
He ran “for fun,” filmed every step, and turned controversy into content. Now, from the back row of Brussels, Panayiotou is rewriting what it means to be an…
How Regime Change In Iran Could Unfold — Without Repeating Iraq And Afghanistan Mistakes
Citing the costly or disastrous cases of Afghanistan, Iraq and Libya as warnings to the West to steer clear of regime change in Iran is mistaken and cynical.…
Israel-Arab Wars And That Pernicious Habit Of Calling Every Defeat A “Victory”
Between the defeats of June 1967 and June 2025 — both ironically hailed by some as victories — history seems to repeat itself. But now that Arab habit…
It’s A Trump, Trump World — And Isn’t Getting Any Safer
Donald Trump has scored a number of domestic and international victories. But his failure to reign in either Vladimir Putin or Benjamin Netanyahu does not bode well for…
Khomeini To Trump: How Lies Built Iran’s Regime — And Can Tear It Down
In 1979, Iran was seduced by a cleric who promised freedom and delivered tyranny. In 2025, a chaotic U.S. president may be using lies of his own to…
Communism Meets Reincarnation? How China Is Trying To Pick The Next Dalai Lama
The Dalai Lama has warned his followers against any attempt to name his successor outside the traditions of Tibetan Buddhism, a veiled reference to the Chinese Communist Party,…
Iran’s Greatest Miscalculation: Playing The North Korea Card
Iran’s revolutionary regime imagined it could assure its survival by becoming an armed bunker like North Korea, ready to shoot if threatened. They seemed to forget that, for its…