Geopolitics

A government watchdog group said the Biden administration continues to send billions in U.S. taxpayer dollars to Afghanistan and is also preventing an audit of their actions. Read More.

This was a crisis waiting to happen. Europe’s unfolding energy emergency was long in coming but at the same time widely encouraged by Western European states all too eager to embrace Russia’s cheap and available natural gas delivered to the European Union’s doorstep by a spiderweb of pipelines some dating from the Soviet era. Read More.

We don't pretend to be experts on Italian politics. Nevertheless, the similarities with fake populist Republicans here in America is unmistakable. The warning message: for a deeply unpopular ruling elite, the best way to remain in power at the moment may be to subvert and control the public backlash roiling against it. Read More.

In a move that was seen as undermining Israeli sovereignty over the eastern part of the capital city of Jerusalem, Joe Biden's handlers removed the Israeli flag from his limo and refused to allow Israeli officials to accompany Biden in a visit to a Palestinian hospital on Friday. Read More.

A Bill Gates-funded grocery in the Netherlands which sells synthetic meats was destroyed in a fire on July 10. Read More.

Amid daily revelations about damning evidence on his son Hunter Biden's laptop, two major warnings regarding China's ongoing efforts to infiltrate American politics and steal U.S. technology were issued by U.S. intelligence officials last week. Read More.

There is Jan. 6 at the U.S. Capitol, and then there are actual insurrections. Read More.

Just a year ago, the political odds of comfortably neutral Sweden and Finland joining NATO were a long shot; Vladimir Putin’s attack on Ukraine changed the military threat and jolted the political calculus. Read More.

The director-general of Denmark’s Health Authority said that in retrospect injecting children with the Covid vaccine was a mistake. Read More.

After prohibiting their two sons from taking a class in "gender equality," the parents of the two straight A students in Portugal were put through the ringer by government officials, a report said. Read More.

The entire eastern region of Ukraine effectively came under Russian control over the weekend, according to Russia's Defense Ministry. Read More.

How time flies. It’s been 25 years since Hong Kong returned to Chinese control, a quarter century since the prosperous British Crown Colony became a semi-autonomous part of the People’s Republic of China, the world’s largest dictatorship. Read More.

The total amount of U.S. taxpayer money either already sent to or pledged by Team Biden to Ukraine is nearing the $50 billion mark. That apparently isn't enough for President Volodymyr Zelensky. Read More.

Viewing them as major national security threats, the Trump administration precipitated the closing of some 100 Beijing-linked Confucius Institutes across the United States. Read More.

Is China drawing yet another provocative red line, this time in the narrow but strategic Taiwan Strait? Read More.