DUBLIN ISRAEL AND DONALD Trump have released so much moral indignation in Ireland that telling the rest of mankind what it should be doing has begun to overtake foreign tech and pharma as the key growth sector in the Irish economy. “It’s in danger of becoming a bubble,” says Aonghus Kneehigh, a senior research fellow…

BY JOE CLAUSWITZ-TZU OUR WE TOLD YOU SO CORRESPONDENT IDEOLOGIES TRY TO DESTROY each other; states are happy to steal riches and territory. Ideological warfare is total; state warfare is limited. We’ve spent one hundred years fighting ideologies; they are gone and we are back to where we started. “This has happened before and may…

KYIV IT’S LIKE FINDING your wife in bed with your best friend. Ukrainian President Zelensky must feel like he’s been thrown from an airplane without a parachute. Donald Trump says he’s a dictator, his army is slowly being pushed back in the Donbas, and squeezed in Kursk. What is he to do? “Attack!” says Mad…

BUENOS AIRES AN ARGENTINIAN POLICE report on Liam Payne’s final hours before he fell to his death from a hotel balcony in Buenos Aires, shows the multi-millionaire pop star was another tragic victim of those demons, fame and fortune. “You have to feel sorry for him,” says Ellie Billie-Goosebumps, a One Direction fan since she…

BERLIN AMERICAN INTELLIGENCE AGENTS are now hoping that a victory in Ukraine will cause Vladimir Putin’s head to swell so much, he will make a terrible decision, like invading China – or investing in Californian real estate, and in that way bring his regime down. “The use of Ukraine to beat him into submission has…

LONDON “I AM REMINDED of Scarlet O’Hara when Rhett Butler is leaving her in Gone With The Wind,” insists Davis Monroe III, a fellow of the Splendid Isolation Foundation, a think-tank based in Washington, DC. “She begs: ‘Where shall I go, what shall I do?’ And Rhett Butler replies: ‘Frankly, my dear, I don’t give…

KYIV WHEN YOUR BIGGEST backer calls you a dictator and a thief, then you in trouble. Ukraine’s President Zelensky, who until a few weeks ago was the Churchill of eastern Europe, has suddenly found himself being labelled a criminal, by the President of the very country that has urged him to fight Russia for the…

WASHINGTON, DC “FOR ALL THOSE still looking at the world through rose-tinted glasses, this is what military defeat looks like.” The Russian Foreign Ministry spokesman was not smiling when he spoke, he was, he insisted, merely stating the obvious. His country and the United States of America were discussing peace in Ukraine over the heads…

DUBLIN THE PRESENCE OF so many brutal criminals among its immigrant population has people and commentators speculating on whether Ireland perhaps has a special visa program for drug gangs and the like. “We seem to be attracting the violent rejects from around the rest of the world,” insists Stanislaus Hoch, a former police officer who…

MOSCOW RUSSIAN FOREIGN MINISTER Sergei Lavrov appears to have rumbled a NATO plan to get thousands of its troops on the ground in Ukraine, by disguising them as peace keepers. The Putin loyalist has deemed it unacceptable. His Ministry says not only can Ukraine not be in NATO, but NATO cannot be in Ukraine. In…