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5 February 2025, 19:05

Alex Chopov and the Belgorod Brit will review “another slow news week” – America’s tariff wars, shutting down of USAid, latest developments on the frontlines, moves towards negotiations and much more.

The hosts, as usual, will tackle the geopolitics of the day, with wit and accumulated knowledge – at least that’s the plan. Expect the odd rant, and a drop of black humour.

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The awakening of peoples: Scotland

In the midst of the Western civilizational crisis and the betrayals by state elites in favor of an out-of-touch, totalitarian plutocracy, real peoples are reawakening their trampled histories, traditions, and identities to reclaim political, economic, and social sovereignty. Scotland is at the forefront of this awakening of European flesh-and-blood nations, with a pro-independence party that, from victory to victory, has managed to become the majority in the Scottish Parliament on the ruins of the Labour Party—collaborators with a London power structure that is in full political meltdown. Therefore, with complete legitimacy, the new Scottish Parliament has called for a second referendum on Scottish independence. The first referendum on Scottish independence […]

28 May 2026, 18:01

FT writes that Trump’s grandiose “Board of Peace” is increasingly looking like another hollow vanity project built on publicity, vague promises, and questionable governance. Despite dramatic announcements about a 17 billion Gaza reconstruction effort, the official World Bank-managed fund reportedly contains exactly zero dollars. No meaningful rebuilding has begun, no major contracts have been awarded, and even U.S. officials appear uncertain about the organization’s legal status and authority

Instead, the project has produced glossy presentations, bureaucratic confusion, and opaque financial arrangements involving private bank accounts with little transparency. Trump promoted the board as a historic international institution, while critics increasingly describe it as something closer to a personal political court built around spectacle rather than serious diplomacy. Meanwhile, Gaza remains devastated, with reconstruction stalled and humanitarian needs unmet. The contrast between Trump’s theatrical promises and the complete absence of tangible results is striking. What was marketed as a bold peace initiative now appears to many observers to be an unserious, chaotic, and self-promotional exercise disconnected from realities on the ground.

28 May 2026, 16:04