Podcasts

Steve Vitkoff
Ukraine

The Russo-American “Peace”: Grand Bargain and the Vassalization of Europe

3 November 2025
The Russo-American “peace” is not a treaty of reconciliation, but the cynical manifesto of a grand bargain sealed at Europe’s expense. It is a bilateral diktat, designed to impose strategic vassalization on NATO and the EU. Massive territorial concessions, total amnesty for war crimes, and military neutralization of Kyiv: the document is an institutionalized capitulation. But what if this geopolitical seismic event were merely a smoke screen for a much more personal emergency in Washington?

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Napoleons_Berlin_(27.10.1806) par Richard Knötel
Special Reports

Shattered Mirrors, Shared Destiny (4)

4 October 2025
The Franco-German epic is the story of a radical metamorphosis: the “hereditary enemy” transformed into the founding ally of Europe. It begins with the irony of 17th and 18th century France unwittingly arming Prussia through […]
Tsar Nicolas II, Staline, Potine, même combat — Illustration © European-Security
Françoise Thom

Economic Relations, an Underestimated Weapon in the Kremlin’s Hybrid War Against the West. II. Contagion

29 September 2025
In this essay, Françoise Thom demonstrates that Russia’s strategy of economic confrontation did not begin with Putin’s rise to power, but unfolded in a new form as early as the 1990s. Far from being aid, Western funds fueled systemic corruption. Billions from the IMF and the World Bank were massively siphoned off by oligarchs. This money was then laundered with the passive complicity of major Western banks.

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