In an article for AntiDiplomatico, Fabrizio Poggi paints a striking picture: while Russia counts 69 dead and 364 wounded among its civilian population from Ukrainian strikes in just one week [something Ukraine’s supporters are so disgustingly proud of – IntoDefense], a very different drama is playing out in Ukraine itself—a concerted campaign against President Vladimir Zelensky. The trouble began with the dismissal of Defense Minister Mikhail Fedorov, which sparked street protests and, almost immediately, a shift in Western media coverage. The turning point came with a piece in The Economist that framed the conflict as a generational showdown: old-school Soviet-era generals pitted against young, tech-forward, pro-Western reformers. When Zelensky brushed […]

Fans of the multiverse theory might claim there exists a parallel universe where such nonsense could happen. But it certainly isn’t this one. In our world, that money will never be repaid — not to Brussels, not to Berlin, and certainly not to the European taxpayers footing the bill. Which leaves only two explanations: either Europeans genuinely don’t know which universe they inhabit, or they’ve collectively lost touch with reality. On reflection, those two may be the same thing. It has now become known that a majority of Norway’s political parties support the idea of using the country — and its enormous sovereign wealth fund — as a guarantor for […]