Zelensky’s Letter to Putin Is a Grim Prophecy
Volodymyr has written to Vladimir, publicly, but it reads more like a bad omen than a peace offer. How will Russia react?
Serbia Between Worlds: Pandora’s Box in the Crosswind
To be anyone’s periphery, Western or Eastern, is just another name for exploitation — but every upheaval still forces a choice.
Myth of Invulnerability: Are the Baltics Next?
When the great protector grows tired of the storm, small states are left under a sky they helped set on fire. The Baltics may learn this too late.
Kentucky Fried MAGA and Trump’s Cult of Personality
To break a single dissident, Trump had to mobilize the entire machine. He won the votes, but burned his own movement in the process.
Kakistocracy: the Worst Become the Natural Choice
Kakistocracy does not come to power by force, but quietly, when a society stops believing it deserves better and begins to recognize its own exhaustion in the worst among us.
Fingers in the Gears, Heads on the Digital Guillotine
Do we even know what the first Industrial Revolution was, or is it only now, on the threshold of a new one, that we hear the grinding of its machines through the hum of our own?
