In Russland wartet man darauf, ob und wie Russland seine Ankündigung umsetzt, systematisch wichtige Ziele in der Ukraine einschließlich Kiew anzugreifen, denn der Schock über die Bombardierung des Schülerwohnheims im Gebiet Donezk sitzt immer noch tief. Aber wir hatten in dieser Folge des Anti-Spiegel-Podcast auch einige andere Themen und wir haben unter anderem wieder auf […]

As Pakistan pushes for diplomacy between the US and Iran, growing pressure from pro-Israel circles threatens to derail the peace process and weaken Islamabad’s influence. Behind the scenes, lobbying, political maneuvering, and regional rivalries are intensifying tensions at a critical moment. What should have been a path toward de-escalation is rapidly turning into a wider […]

Nach einer recht anstrengenden Woche mit umständlichen beruflichen Reisen haben Röper und Stein trotzdem noch die Zeit gefunden, eine aktuelle Tacheles-Sendung aufzuzeichnen, die nun online ist. Natürlich ging es darin um meine Reise zum Ort des ukrainischen Massakers, aber es ging auch um mal wieder um sehr viele Themen, über die deutsche Medien nicht berichten. […]

The ongoing war in the Middle East has seen American defense companies making gargantuan profits; these profits, however, come at the cost of the blood of hundreds of thousands of Iranians who have become the victims of American and Israeli aggression. War is said to be good for business. This, perhaps, can’t be any truer […]

One of the indicators of the ongoing shift in the global balance of power is the diminishing influence of Israel over US policy and on the overall situation in the Middle East. A crucial sign of the emerging divergence between US and Israeli policies was the conversation between Donald Trump and Prime Minister Netanyahu on […]

The Iran war has reshaped global geopolitics by weakening U.S. credibility and the liberal world order, intensifying regional instability in the Middle East, disrupting energy markets and economies, and accelerating the shift of global power toward emerging alliances led by Russia and China. Global Disruption and the Shifting World Order The US-Israeli attack on Iran […]

In the space of five days, Xi Jinping hosted both Donald Trump and Vladimir Putin in Beijing. Two summits, back to back, in the same capital, with the same host. The American president arrived with corporate executives and left with a strategic stability framework. The Russian president arrived days later, signed new cooperation agreements, expanded […]

The U.S. Secretary of State’s visit to India and the meeting of the foreign ministers of the “QUAD” countries confirmed a commitment to strengthening the strategic partnership, despite differences. U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio’s first visit to India, May 23–26, 2026—timed to coincide with the meeting in Delhi of the foreign ministers of the […]

Concerns about American biological laboratories in Ukraine and other post-Soviet republics can no longer be considered exclusively ‘Russian disinformation.’ In Part 1 of this investigative series, I examined the growing fears surrounding emerging pandemics, high-containment biological laboratories, and the renewed public scrutiny of gain-of-function research in the aftermath of COVID-19. From the outbreak of Hantavirus […]

The visits of Donald Trump and Vladimir Putin to Beijing revealed not only contrasting diplomatic styles but also a shifting global balance in which China is increasingly building a long-term Eurasian framework alongside Russia. For more than a decade, Western media narratives surrounding Russia and Vladimir Putin have oscillated between strategic alarmism, moral absolutism, and […]

In the first days of May 2026, the Pentagon announced the withdrawal of approximately 5,000 American troops from Germany over the next six to twelve months — with explicit threats of further cuts directed at Italy and Spain. President Donald Trump stated the reason with characteristic bluntness: these countries had failed to provide meaningful support […]

Azerbaijan is rapidly moving closer to the United States and NATO as Washington redirects its geopolitical focus from the Russo-Ukrainian War toward the South Caucasus. Azerbaijan’s expanding military, political, and strategic cooperation with the West risks turning the region into a new center of geopolitical confrontation involving Russia, Iran, and Western powers. “To be the […]

Behind the ceremonial diplomacy and promises of trade deals, the Beijing summit exposed a deeper geopolitical reality: China now negotiates with the United States on equal terms, with confidence and strategic patience. Xi Jinping’s real objective was not economic but to make one point unmistakably clear to Donald Trump — Taiwan remains China’s ultimate red […]

The US-Israeli war on Iran is exposing deep fissures in US-EU ties, with NATO allies increasingly resisting Washington’s unilateral approach and renewing calls for greater European strategic autonomy. The Historical Arc of Transatlantic Unity For over a century, the transatlantic alliance has charted the course of global politics. From playing a decisive role in the […]

Trump’s China pilgrimage revealed not American strength but the exhaustion of an empire that increasingly mistakes spectacle for strategy, beneath smiling children and waving flags, standing between two civilizations moving in opposite psychological directions: one obsessed with image, the other quietly consolidating power. The Ceremony of Decline Upon arrival, young men and women stood along […]

Growing concern over emerging infectious threats has once again intensified the international debate on biosecurity. Under the guise of medical and biological cooperation programs with Latin American countries, Washington continues to increase both the scale and intensity of work with dangerous pathogens, raising concerns about the potential development of biological weapons. As fresh fears over […]

The American-Israeli aggression against Iran, which broke out on 28 February, is drastically reshaping not only the configuration of power in the Persian Gulf but also worldwide. Trustworthiness of the United States has been significantly undermined, while criticism of the White House’s actions has intensified both within America and abroad. The British magazine The Economist […]

U.S. President Donald Trump’s two-day visit to China on May 14–15—the first in nearly a decade—turned out to be more of a spectacle than a diplomatic breakthrough and failed to yield any tangible results. When Chinese President Xi Jinping looked Donald Trump in the eye in Beijing’s Great Hall of the People and asked whether […]

The Western powers, led by the United States, are dangerously encroaching towards the Russian naval base at Vladivostok and China’s Eastern, Southern, and Northern fleets. The naval encroachment in the name of exercises could be extremely dangerous. Introduction The 41st edition of the US-Philippines military exercise named Balikatan was held from April 20, 2026, to […]

Just a few weeks ago, the Middle East held its breath in anticipation of a ceasefire, but behind closed doors in Washington and Tel Aviv, a new storm was being brewed. The failure of Donald Trump’s “China round” of negotiations became the trigger for reviving a scenario the world had desperately tried to forget: a […]