Alexander Etkind
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Ukraine is surrounded by false friends (opens the original)
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In July, Laura Loomer – Trump whisperer, conspiracy entrepreneur and the self-styled “most banned woman in the world” – went to Kyiv, sat out a missile attack in a bomb shelter, and interviewed Volodymyr Zelensky and his military commanders. She returned home having found her roots in Ukraine: archivists, she says, unearthed traces of her ancestors in the records of the Pale of Settlement. With her usual energy, she now talks of her love for Ukraine. For the Russian propaganda she spent years am
How Europe fell for Faragism (opens the original)
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As the world heats up, Nazi wrecks are rising from the depths. Record-low water on the Danube has exposed warped remains of warships, some hulls still laden with explosives – Hitler’s Black Sea fleet, scuttled in 1944. Terrible heat buckles steel rails in Ukraine, helping Russian bombs and drones to cause even more fire and death. The same heat proliferated jellyfish that have stopped one of France’s nuclear plants, caused a major fire near Sizewell C in Suffolk and brought Hungary’s only nuclea
Spain gets migration right (opens the original)
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The border between Ceuta and Morocco is one of the most fortified in the world – analogous to the heavily armed borders that crossed Europe and Asia during the Cold War. The Iron Curtain is gone, but the walls on our borders have grown higher and more numerous. According to the Migration Policy Institute, fewer than a dozen border walls existed at the Cold War’s close; by 2022, there were 74. The Berlin Wall stood 3.6 metres high; the Ceuta fence stands 6. Globalisation is over – a death mourned
The EU cannot break free of Russian oil (opens the original)
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In his 2016 book Blood Oil: Tyrants, Violence, and the Rules that Run the World, the American philosopher Leif Wenar argues that oil is a curse in an almost literal sense. Wars had been waged, lives lost, the democracy and development of dozens of countries blocked and the climate heated to the edge of catastrophe, all because of oil. To see us through the transition to net zero, Wenar proposes something like the Fair Trade certification on groceries like coffee and chocolate, where petrol from
This is the end of Russia (opens the original)
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Russia’s oil refineries, the cardiovascular system of its domestic economy, are burning from Moscow to Siberia. Ukrainian drones – cheap, dispersed and precise – have turned Russia’s enormous size, which secured so many past victories, into a strategic liability. Long lines stretch at the gas stations and the black market petrol price in provinces now runs two or three times the official rate. Over the past few days, three logistical centres that supply Moscow’s residents with consumer goods and
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