Alastair Crooke argues that Europe’s political and economic problems could be eased through normalized relations with Russia, but such views are suppressed across the continent. He cites Germany’s AfD—now highly popular, especially with younger voters—as an example of a party punished for advocating a pragmatic relationship with Russia and opposing current NATO policies. He claims dissident parties and leaders across Europe are targeted, banned, or smeared to maintain a rigid centrist “cordon sanitaire.” Germany’s economic decline is tied, in his view, to the loss of cheap Russian energy that once supported its industrial base. Across Europe, unemployment and economic instability are rising. In the UK, public anger has shifted rapidly—from Conservatives to Labour—and now general hostility is directed at the entire political class. Large protests have erupted over immigration and crime, fueled by scandals and distrust in the establishment. The public sees both major parties as a “uniparty” offering no solutions.

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Colonel Jacques Baud is a former military intelligence analyst in the Swiss Army and the author of many books. Baud discusses the strategic vacuum in Europe and panic as Trump is washing his hands of the Ukraine War. Europe, captured by its own war narratives, has committed itself to suicidal policies.

No one expected what happened at the Putin-Trump Summit in Alaska and everything is about to change. Pepe Escobar breaks down the shocking results of the summit and how its will impact the geopolitical situation in Ukraine and beyond forever.

Colonel Jacques Baud is a former military intelligence analyst in the Swiss Army and the author of many books. Colonel Baud discusses how Israel has overextended itself and may destroy itself.

Yes to peace and international cooperation! No to war and military escalation! Join this nationwide demonstration with your own appeals!

The situation in Europe and the Middle East is escalating toward a major war. The NATO proxy war, which is bleeding Ukraine dry, has been lost. Yet the German government refuses to acknowledge this and now wants to make Germany Europe’s strongest military power again?

Israel is committing genocide with its indiscriminate bombing and systematic starvation of Palestinians in Gaza, as confirmed by the UN Special Rapporteur Francesca Albanese. We are appalled that this government continues to supply weapons for this mass murder. Our constitution and international humanitarian law are being blatantly violated. Why isn’t the German government condemning Israel’s clearly illegal war of aggression against Iran?

We need peace initiatives, diplomacy, and a European peace architecture that includes Russia. Instead, an unsubstantiated narrative of an impending Russian invasion of Western Europe is being fabricated. Hundreds of billions in war credits were approved—in a coup orchestrated by Friedrich Merz—by the outgoing Bundestag and confirmed by the Bundesrat. Tanks, ammunition, and missiles are being delivered to "the Eastern Front," including possible authorization to strike deep into Russian territory. Germany is becoming a party to the war, exposing us to the risk of military retaliation. The same applies to the planned deployment of US intermediate-range missiles on German soil in 2026.

The economic war waged by the EU and the German government against affordable Russian energy supplies has led to massive price hikes—not to mention the CIA’s sabotage of the Nord Stream pipelines. The result is Germany’s ongoing deindustrialization and the loss of hundreds of thousands of jobs.

Ray McGovern discusses Europe abandonment of reason, diplomacy and peace as the continent struggles with remaining relevant in a multipolar world. How did Germany replace the US as Russia's most despised adversary? McGovern was a CIA intelligence analyst for 27 years, chaired the National Intelligence Estimates and participated in preparing the President's Daily Brief. He received the Intelligence Commendation Medal at his retirement, returning it in 2006 to protest the CIA's involvement in torture.