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Timofey Bordachev

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Timofey Bordachev is a Valdai Club Programme Director.

Why Washington will take Greenland

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America’s ambitions demonstrate that Western Europe is no longer protected by the very system it helped to build. American political culture is drifting openly toward...

Two bald men fighting over a comb: The UK-Germany ‘alliance’

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The Berlin-London ‘deal’ is a farce, but one that aligns with the region’s decline. Only a complete imbecile would trust the British as allies. History...

From welfare to Waffen: Germany’s militarism is just an embarrassing push for relevance

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Berlin’s new scheme is expensive, empty, and dangerous. A few days ago, German media reported a historic first: for the first time since the Second...

The EU’s leadership is now a global threat

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The bloc’s out of control elites can’t solve problems, so they keep creating new ones. Western European politicians have long approached governance with a strategy...

Enslaved: Here’s how the US made Western Europe its puppet

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From powerhouse to pawn, the region has slowly descended under American rule. The biggest obstacles to a rational European foreign policy are American pressure, the...

Weak and worthless: Western Europe’s elites have sent it into historic decline

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A region which once ruled the world has now become a geopolitical black hole. There are two major fears for Western European elites when dealing...

Half of the West is doomed: Here’s why

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Western Europe is falling behind rapidly, but its elites appear to be in denial. Only a few years ago, most of Western Europe seemed like...

Here’s why NATO no longer works

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The US bloc is accelerating the decline of the West. History has seen many military alliances. But none has ever had such a clear imbalance...

Western hegemony is coming to an end, and the world is about to enter a very dangerous period

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For 500 years the world has been run from Europe or the US: that’s about to change and nobody is sure what its replacement...

The UN is no longer fit for purpose, but should it be abolished or reformed?

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The global body was created by the winners of humanity’s most destructive war, but that was 80 years ago. The United Nations is a product...

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