Humanity is on the brink — Things are so bad right now, people are dying, the world is burning, we’re standing on the edge of the abyss, and yet, in a way it’s also darkly funny. The New York Times is screaming bloody murder, as if Putin reducing the natural gas supply to Europe in response…

It only counts if you’re with the good guys — General Mark Milley, the top military officer of the U.S., visited Indonesia and made a very interesting statement yesterday. He said: “The message is the Chinese military, in the air and at sea, have become significantly more and noticeably more aggressive in this particular region.” It’s not so much what…

What used to be a side effect of our wars and inequality is now used as a weapon — Famine has been used historically to weaken invading armies and besieged garrisons alike. An army that can’t eat, can’t fight. Or, as Napoleon famously said: “An army marches on its stomach” Of course, in the case of sieges, civilians also paid the price of resistance against an invader. This put…

You know what the road to Hell is paved with — I really do believe that a lot of people who consider themselves to be “pro-life” are honest in their intentions. They really do like babies and hate the idea that a prospective baby would be thrown away like so much biohazardous material. They’re the most dangerous ones because, unlike the…

Gun ownership is a civil right; a woman’s bodily autonomy is not — Hello again, America. We’ve talked before about how life over there is getting increasingly crazy. You should know that we’re not trying to shame you. It’s not us Europeans getting all colonially condescending on you. The U.S., for all its faults (and they are many) is still a symbol of…

Guns, guns everywhere — I have often commented under many pieces here on Medium on the fact that Europeans are watching the U.S. with ever-increasing bewilderment and alarm, as it seems to us that politics and life, in general across the pond, is becoming more unhinged by the day. Few things are as characteristically…

Before it becomes just background noise — You might have noticed that the Ukraine war coverage has been steadily slipping into the background lately. The war seems to be turning into a slow march of Russia to take Donetsk and Luhansk, and that doesn’t make for compelling news. Is Putin going to declare his “victory” if that…

It’s madness — Meet Mr. Oleksiy Arestovych. He’s currently, among other things, a military advisor for President Zelenskyy. Oleksiy Arestovych gave an eerily prophetic interview back in February 2019, exactly two years before Russia invaded Ukraine. Please watch it carefully. Most people won’t. They will marvel at the fact that he so accurately…

The Rubinstein Trap — In chess, Polish player Akiba Rubinstein had the dubious honor to fall twice into a “trap” that eventually was named after him. Likely, it’s what stopped him from ever becoming a World Champion. How is that relevant to the war in Ukraine, you might ask. Let me elaborate. I mentioned…