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Tarik Cyril Amar

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Tarik Cyril Amar, is an historian from Germany at Koç University in Istanbul working on Russia, Ukraine, and Eastern Europe, the history of World War II, the cultural Cold War, and the politics of memory.

Something needs to be done to save Germany. €1 trillion of debt is not it

Berlin’s Russia war hysteria is taking it down a clearly signposted path of self-destruction. Germans are famously – infamously, really – fiscally conservative. Believe me,...

The Putin-Trump call was a resounding success – whatever was said

Imagine the Russian and American leaders having a productive 2.5-hour-long conversation just two months ago. The presidents of Russia and the US, Vladimir Putin and...

Meet the warmongers: This is where EU’s military frenzy is coming from

The bloc has allowed its most war-crazed members to dictate its Russia policies – and now they want to attack Moscow first. We have reached...

A dose of reality for the West’s spoiled brat: What now for the humiliated Zelensky?

Thoroughly thrashed by Trump and Vance, the Ukrainian leader faces a bleak future. “A grandiose failure” – take it from the best Ukrainian news site....

Shutting the EU and Ukraine out of the talks is the only way to peace

With Russia and the US finally sitting down for negotiations, we now live in a slightly more normal world. It is already certain that the...

The Putin-Trump call was a true turning point

The US cutting loose both Kiev and Brussels is the way to end the war and that’s a good thing. The only thing more dangerous...

No Western training can save Ukrainian conscripts from their own commanders

A celebrated military cooperation project produces losses, mass desertion, scandal, but no learning. “President-elect” Trump is about to turn into simply “president.” Signs are multiplying...

Geopolitical auto-asphyxiation: Here’s why Germany is heading for irreversible decline

Berlin is unable or unwilling to finally abandon a pernicious groupthink that subordinates its interests to Washington’s misguided political agenda. Oops, he’s done it again:...

Trump is a nightmare for the EU in more ways than one

With its submissiveness to the US and contempt for its president-elect, the bloc’s set itself up for a perfect storm of punishment. For a man...

France is a perfect example of centrist elites wrecking the West

Political crises seem to be taking down Western nations one by one, their leaders clinging to hubris and showing a disdain for democracy. It is...

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