NATO Considers “Preemptive Attacks”
For thirty years we have been told that NATO is only a defensive alliance. It is the stock phrase of official communiqués, government leaders
Is Conscription Coming Back to Italy?
In Europe’s new rush to rearm, the Italian government has also decided to cross a line that, until yesterday, seemed untouchable. Defence Minister Guido
Megaphone diplomacy
The American peace plan for Ukraine was not presented through quiet talks, backroom meetings and long negotiations in Swiss hotels. It arrived in a
Ukrainian nationalist militias and Nazi violence in Drohobycz: what the Vienna records reveal
An occupied city: Drohobycz between ghetto, deportations and the machinery of repression In the spring of 1946 and the first months of 1947, men
Ukraine, the arrival of the “desks of shame”
In recent days, some Russian media have been circulating a story destined to go viral on social networks: in several Ukrainian schools a “desk
Rome copies Moscow: Italy introduces an influencer register too
For a few weeks Italian newspapers have described Russia’s new register for bloggers as yet another sign of an authoritarian clampdown on the web.
Byoblu, frozen accounts. After Visione TV, pressure on “unwelcome” media shifts to the banks
Yesterday Claudio Messora, founder of Byoblu, announced that the broadcaster’s accounts had been frozen. By his account, the amount blocked exceeds 200,000 euros. In
A Punitive Measure or a Political Signal to Russia? Why the Swedes Want a Gripen Production Plant in Ukraine
On October 22, 2025, Sweden and Ukraine signed an agreement that envisages the potential supply of up to 150 Gripen fighter jets over 10,
German Reunification: dismantling the myth of the “weak East” and looking to Europe
For years we told ourselves that eastern Germany would remain one step behind. That was true amid the trauma of the 1990s, when factories
China and India, competition or cooperation?
Russia, China, and India often meet in the same conference halls, at summits that talk about the Global South, new currencies, and logistics corridors.