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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.

The snowflakes of information war: How the New York Times sinned by honesty

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Ukraine’s supporters are up in arms over a factual and neutral – for a change – report on the aftermath of the failed Kursk...

Inside the mind of America’s most unhinged war salesman

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Lindsey Graham’s insatiable bloodlust helps propel the world to move beyond a US-centric world order. Lindsey Graham is at it again: The long-serving – if...

Israel doesn’t go rogue – it goes with Pentagon’s green light

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Washington, the world’s greatest bully, has enabled the attack on Iran by writing a blank check to the aggressor. Having been carrying out its ongoing...

Kiev sends the living to die, but won’t accept its dead

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Clearly, controlling the narrative is more important for Ukraine than the dignity of its fallen – or the well-being of those still alive. It is...

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...

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