The Trump Doctrine and the Dawn of a New Authoritarian Order
byThe Trump administration’s ongoing flirtation with the world’s authoritarians has now solidified into what can fairly be described as a Trump Doctrine. The release…
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The War On Satire: America’s Kukly Moment
byIn the late 1990s, a now-legendary Russian political satire program called Kukly (“puppets” in English) used a cast of caricatures to lampoon Russian parliamentarians…
Dear Mr. Trump: Don’t Appease Putin at the Expense of Eastern Europe
byI and many Estonians like me await the summit between the United States and Russia in Finland on Monday with a certain sense of…
Siim Kallas: I’m starting to see the grand logic of Donald Trump’s strategy more, and more
byOf course, I don’t know how or what the American president is thinking. But I’m tired of having to read through the maze of…
A Message To My Doomed Colleagues In The American Media
byCongratulations, US media! You’ve just covered your first press conference of an authoritarian leader with a massive ego and a deep disdain for your…
Fake news, free speech and lies
byThere has been so much talk about “fake news” and information warfare lately that both terms are becoming over inflated, used so liberally that…
The 2016 Election Is a Referendum on U.S. Policy on Russia
byThe 2016 election in the United States has challenged traditional party views on foreign policy. Populist isolationism is on the rise in the fringes…
If Trump Wins . . .
byThe grand national political conventions in the US have ended and the Republicans have chosen Donald Trump as their candidate. It’s an unbelievable result….