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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.

Zelensky’s right-hand man is gone, offering hope for peace

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If Andrey Yermak’s downfall allows Kiev to focus on ending the war, he will have rendered his country one selfless service. Andrey Yermak, the longstanding...

Ukraine is drowning in a swamp of corruption – and the West is trying to make it look like a good thing

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Kiev’s establishment is burning to the ground in the Energoatom Mafia scandal, while the media and think tanks keep insisting this is fine. In Ukraine,...

Ukraine corruption: Zelensky’s Western masters had better start looking for a new puppet

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The “Servant of the People” is only serving his besties, and patience with him is running out. In all too many ways, what has happened...

Germany’s war fantasy has progressed to Tolkien levels

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A baffling clip celebrating a new tank brigade stationed in Lithuania shows the depth of Berlin’s military delusions. A dark clearing in a forest at...

Germany is doing to itself what even its defeat in WWII couldn’t

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Once, the US wanted the country deindustrialized but ultimately decided against it – now, Berlin’s incompetent authorities are wrecking it themselves. Toward the end of...

Why the Putin-Trump summit cancellation is terrible news for Ukraine

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The West and Kiev are once again stranding Ukrainians in the forever kill zone. There was – or seemed to be – hope for peace...

When Tomahawks become boomerangs

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Zelensky’s latest Washington humiliation is about more than yet another Trump mood swing. Leave it to Mr. Unpredictable, aka Donald Trump, President of the United...

The EU isn’t at war with Russia – it’s at war with the minds of its own citizens

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European leaders are trying to gaslight their populations into believing that it’s Moscow that wants a fight, not them. Among other things, this particular moment...

Germany has a new Berlin Wall

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The establishment’s “firewall” against opposition parties creates a new East-West divide and a two-tier society. It’s been more than a third of a century since...

Macron is in a political death spiral

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France is facing a crisis not seen in almost 70 years – is it time for a Sixth Republic? The France of President Emmanuel Macron,...

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