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MOSCOW — The Western establishment treats its endless parade of summits the way the fashion industry treats runway season — as an excuse for vapid sound bites and showing off their latest recycled talking points while sipping champagne. But U.S. Vice President JD Vance wasn’t on the European conference circuit over the last week to blow ...Read more

PARIS — President Trump has a bold new plan for Middle East peace: forget the usual song and dance about counterterrorism, humanitarian aid or even mitigating climate change. He’s proposing to skip the foreplay and get right to the main event: making sure American businesses cash in.

“The US will take over the Gaza Strip and we will do a ...Read more

PARIS — Trump’s tariffs on imports from Canada and Mexico are a cymbal crash right in the ear of some chronic sleepwalkers who haven’t had to think much beyond a world that orbits around America.

It’s also an opportunity, in the same way as a divorce after decades of marriage. While it may be unpleasant at first to have to make the ...Read more

PARIS — Trump vowed to settle the Ukraine conflict in 24 hours. Now he’s unveiled his brilliant plan: sanctions.

“I'm going to do Russia, whose Economy is failing, and President Putin, a very big FAVOR. Settle now, and STOP this ridiculous War! IT'S ONLY GOING TO GET WORSE,” wrote the American president, sounding (and punctuating) like ...Read more

PARIS – Sayonara, scarlet letter. Puritanism is now a thing of the past in America, thanks to wild oats broadcast seeder – and President Donald Trump’s candidate for Pentagon chief – Pete Hegseth.

Or is it?

Here in France, and in Europe more generally, no one gives a toss about anyone’s private life, professionally speaking. If ...Read more

PARIS — U.S. President-elect Donald Trump should seriously consider taking his act to this year’s Art Basel or Venice Biennale.

The former and near-future Oval Office occupant has mused about buying Greenland, making Canada the 51st state, reclaiming the Panama Canal and renaming the Gulf of Mexico as the Gulf of America. All these things ...Read more

PARIS – One minute, he’s telling “subtard” online critics of his policy ideas to go “f**k yourself in the face.” The next, he’s fanboying for populist leaders at home and abroad. So what’s the problem with Elon Musk? Aside from his politics, that is.

If Musk, the richest man in the world, held political views that were more ...Read more

PARIS — The issue that most kept Americans awake at night over the past year wasn’t health or work issues, or even relationship troubles. It was the corrupt establishment.

A whopping 65 percent of Americans say that they’re more worried about “corrupt government officials” than even loved ones getting seriously sick or dying or not ...Read more

PARIS — It’s amazing how fast the woke Western establishment turned into a bunch of bigots, by their own definition, when they sensed that their own backsides were on the line this year.

It seems like just yesterday that leaders across Western Europe and North America were advertising their openness to immigration from around the world as ...Read more

PARIS — Farmers are redrawing Europe’s political map with one electoral victory after another – and the establishment is in full panic mode. What the heck did they expect?

If current mainstream narratives are to be believed, a Romanian “far-right” politician, Călin Georgescu, who once committed the thought crime of referring to ...Read more

PARIS — Donald Trump gets invited by the desperate Frenchman running the country to celebrate the newly-renovated Notre Dame cathedral — and ends up walking straight into a ménage-à-trois with a guy dressed like he got lost while trimming the shrubs.

During Trump’s first term, French President Emmanuel Macron fancied himself a “Trump ...Read more

VANCOUVER, British Columbia – Excuse me, but what the heck would Ukrainian special forces be doing in Syria? Oh, nothing – just hanging out with the ideological descendants of the guys who brought down New York’s Twin Towers on Sept. 11, 2001, according to Ukraine’s own English language newspaper, the Kyiv Post.

Remember Al-Qaeda? Here�...Read more

VANCOUVER, British Columbia — Incoming US President-elect Donald Trump keeps threatening to dropkick countries like Canada that don’t meet their defense spending obligations as members of the transatlantic weapons lobby known as the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) out of its protection racket. Please, just do Canadians the honor, ...Read more