POLITICS

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vlgr Oct 15, 2026

Ukraine's White Horse Reaches the End of the Merry Road

Ukraine's military Starlink access has been restricted, disrupting drone operations. Trump says it's time for Ukraine to get a new president, while Elon Musk declares: "And so the slaughter continues … Time for Zelensky to go"

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vlgr Oct 13, 2026

Trump, Putin, Ukrainians and Europeans Want Peace - Brussels Opens Two More Chapters Toward Escalation

While Washington attempts to negotiate an end to the war, Brussels has found another way forward: more accession negotiations, more commitments and more European taxpayers’ money. With peace apparently threatening to break out, someone has to keep the project moving.

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vlgr Oct 12, 2026

Is France Ready for an EU Taxpayer Bailout?

Rescuing France could cost the European Union nearly €1.8 trillion if the country loses access to financial markets, according to financial analyst Bob Lyddon. His proposed solution? Brussels borrows €2 trillion and buys French debt, sparing Paris the humiliation of a formal bailout. Greece wasn't quite so fortunate.

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vlgr Oct 9, 2026

Austria Shelters Ukrainian Corruption Suspects, Detains Journalist Investigating Them

Ukrainian investigative journalist Mykhailo Tkach, known for exposing wealthy Ukrainian fugitives living comfortably in Vienna, was detained by Austrian police while investigating another former Ukrainian official. His colleague is unaccounted for, and no reason for the detention was given in the first reports. Austria has some explaining to do.

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vlgr Oct 7, 2026

European Parliament Discovers Political Satire Is Free Speech When the Politician Is Donald Trump

Europe has finally found the proper limits of political satire. Calling your own politician an idiot may bring prosecutors and police. Displaying the naked president of the United States, the EU’s most important trading partner and the dominant military power in NATO, as an “Orange Plague” inside the European Parliament is culture.

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vlgr Oct 7, 2026

European Intellectual Elite Marks Third Anniversary of Hamas Massacre By Blaming The Jews

Three years after Hamas crossed into Israel, murdered around 1,200 people and kidnapped 251, the international intellectual class has finally settled on an appropriate way to commemorate the occasion: protest against Israel.

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vlgr Oct 6, 2026

British Citizens Ask: Is a Democratic Failure Running for Years the Absence of Democracy?

A new way to run a border. UK government that knows the crossings are coming, knows most of the country wants them stopped, and still meets the boats and disperses the passengers. This is choosing the fight with its own voters over the fight with the courts, the contractors and France. It does not look sane from the town where the coaches arrive.

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vlgr Oct 5, 2026

American “Free Speech” is “The Opposite of Free Speech”, says Macron

Hitting someone, stabbing someone, insulting someone online and damaging someone’s property are all examples of exceeding the permissible limits of "our freedom". Information, Macron says, has to be treated within “public order.” People posting inconvenient things online should feel the consequences to save "our democracy".

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vlgr Oct 2, 2026

Van der Bellen Lends His Voice to Kickl’s Freedom Party

Constitution Day, 1 October, in the old Bohemian Court Chancellery on Jewish Square, where the court keeps Article 1 carved into the wall. A week earlier, in New York, he had called Israeli conduct in Gaza and the West Bank war crimes and violations of international law, then shook hands with Zohran Mamdani under the line “a proud European meets a proud New Yorker.”

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vlgr Sep 29, 2026

The UN celebrates the 25th anniversary of the famous Durban Conference in New York

Israel and other 44 countries, including the US, Germany, the UK, Argentina, Colombia, Czechia, Georgia, Honduras, Hungary, Latvia, Lithuania, Micronesia, North Macedonia, Poland, Romania, South Sudan, Slovenia, Bulgaria, Albania, Serbia, Croatia, Samoa, Venezuela, Greece, Armenia, Palau, Moldova, Monaco, Bolivia, the Netherlands, Canada, Australia, New Zealand, Slovakia, Papua New Guinea, Sweden, Italy, Cyprus, Spain, the Dominican Republic, Paraguay, Denmark, Ukraine and Estonia thought they had better things to do.