Horror and terror struck the Christmas Market in Magdeburg.

My thoughts are with the victims, their families.

It is another act of terror along a familiar pattern - similar to the attack in the Austrian city in Graz in June 2015. Alas, authories failed then, and have failed ever since to tackle the larger underlying issues.

#Germany #Terrorism

For those who cannot open the RT channel due to the media laws in the EU: Hungary' s PM Viktor Orbán said in an interview with the Hungarian Kossuth Radio (all inside the EU) that the US and the EU have so far spent 310 billion EUR on Ukraine. He got that figure from US officials.

I remember a few years ago, Austrian universities were dreaming about one billion invested into research. (Forschungsmilliarde). It was never done.

Meanwhile, both in the US and the EU infrastructure from public schools, to health and important things like bridges and trains are in a quagmire.

The confrontation between Nato and Russia on the battlefield of Ukraine is also one between those who print money (the west) and those who produce commodities. As I keep saying: you can print money, but you cannot print energy.

How will historians assess this chapter? A waste, a long war or maybe a watershed line....

#Russia #Ukraine

Good evening from back home in the village,

This morning after another meeting I visited for an hour the GUM department store next to the Red Square, always nice but especially beautiful during this season of New Year and Christmas.

See you soon Moscow, now at few days in the home-office before heading for the office in St.Petersburg

For the EU to open a dialogue with the new Syrian authorities, the country must rid itself of any Russian bases, EU High Representative Kaja Kallas said.

According to the official, this issue was discussed by the EU ministers, and “many foreign ministers emphasized that it should be a condition for the new leadership to eliminate Russian influence [in Syria].” She promised to convey this viewpoint to the new Syrian authorities during upcoming diplomatic meetings.

Kallas also opined that Iran and Russia “should not have a place in Syria’s future,” and that the EU must be the “biggest humanitarian aid donor” for the new authorities in Damascus.

The EU demands for the new strongmen in Damascus are pathetic: close the Russian military bases and we talk to you.

The EU's obsession with Russia has left the realm of irrationality and became pathological some time ago

What to do?
The EU needs a rendez-vous with reality

Here comes a good summary by TASS about my early morning online contribution. Was invited to this panel by the Far Eastern University a few days ago. I did not travel to the EEF this year, since another important event had been rescheduled.