Trump’s meeting with NATO Secretary General Mark Rutte is quite shameful! The level of sycophancy and servility from Rutte towards his boss is nauseating. Especially notable was the conversation about the annexation of Greenland. Trump outright said “annexation” and asked the Secretary General, “You don’t mind, Mark, do you?” We’re here annexing part of a NATO member’s territory. Maybe we could even make an entire NATO country a state of the U.S. And what did Rutte do? Nothing. He mumbled that the alliance had nothing to do with it and preferred to stay out of it. How is that possible? So, the sovereignty and integrity of NATO members is none […]

Count Nikolay Novosiltsev (pictured above) was tasked with developing the document, which proposed establishing a constitutional monarchy in Russia. Legislative power was to be shared between the emperor and a bicameral parliament (the State Sejm). Members of the upper chamber, the Senate, were appointed by the monarch, while those of the lower chamber, the Ambassadorial Chamber, were elected by noble assemblies and urban societies. The parliament was responsible for approving laws and the budget, but the emperor retained the right of legislative initiative and veto power. The document also outlined a territorial-administrative reform, proposing to divide Russia into ten viceroyalties (districts), further subdivided into provinces, counties, and smaller districts. Each […]