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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.

Truce or trap? Ukraine makes sure peace talks go nowhere

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Any progress towards a settlement will be incremental, slow and painful. On Sunday, in the Russian regions of Bryansk and Kursk, both bordering Ukraine, bridges...

Germany risks becoming a target for Russia – for the first time since Hitler

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Will Berlin start giving Kiev Taurus missiles and risk becoming a direct target for retaliation? Chancellor Friedrich Merz, from Germany’s mainstream CDU/CSU conservatives, has caused...

Istanbul Talks 2.0 are a great chance for Zelensky to accept reality

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The sooner Kiev and its Western backers realize there will be no one-sided deal, the sooner peace might come. Despite Ukraine’s and the EU’s worst...

Why is Germany such a mess?

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As Friedrich Merz limps into the chancellor’s office on his second try, his term is already starting worse than his predecessor’s ended. It seems long...

Labeling the AfD ‘extremist’ will backfire terribly

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The popular German opposition party has been blacklisted, a big step down the slippery slope towards a total ban. Germany’s domestic intelligence service, the Bundesamt...

Here’s why the AfD is destined for the German government

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The right-wing party has taken the lead in a nationwide poll for the first time. It won’t be the last – and the establishment...

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

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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

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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

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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?

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

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