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Clearly Putin

Francesco Sisci / Director

- Europe -

14 December 2025

The EU vote to seize Russian assets is a significant loss for the comrade President and has cast a ballot in the negotiations nobody can ignore. Some things are unclear about the prospects following the EU’s decision to seize €210 billion in Russian assets. A few are very clear. Yet none, the clear and unclear, […]

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Saving Comrade Putin

Francesco Sisci / Director

- Russia -

12 December 2025

Some in America might want to save Russia from itself, and rightly so. But the current deal only makes things worse. The US needs a clearer, more comprehensive plan to address the issue. There are few enough ways to state it: Russian President Vladimir Putin has not won on the battlefield. He has not conquered […]

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America and its Taranto

Francesco Sisci / Director

- America -

8 December 2025

It’s not about Ukraine, but the future of America. Does US President Donald Trump want to be like Scipio, Hannibal, or Qin Shi Huang? In the end, it was all about alliances. It was a pivotal moment for civilizations, the story behind the longest-lasting and most copied empire in history. It was the battle against […]

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A Spirit of the Union

Francesco Sisci / Director

- America -

7 December 2025

The report is realistic but may open new fissures between the US and its allies. America needs a common project to deal with future massive challenges. Peter Frankopan writes a strong assessment of the recently published and controversial American report on National Security: “Rather than offering the usual blend of aspiration and reassurance, it sets […]

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Questions for Russian Patriarch Kirill I

Lorenzo Prezzi /

- Russia -

5 December 2025

Rome, December 4, 2025, Presentation of the Document Denouncing Persecutions by Sergei Chapnin Four Premises: · The limited competence of a religious writer (not an academic, not a geopolitical expert). · Never confuse the glorious, millennia-long history of the peoples of ‘Rus’ with the current historical segment of the war; never confuse the theological-spiritual heritage […]

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The Naked King of Taiwan

Francesco Sisci / Director

- China -

3 December 2025

Political fig leaves, Trump’s Chinese agenda, North Korea’s nuclear missiles, and the use of force. There are four distinct yet interconnected sets of problems fueling the ongoing Chinese rhetorical offensive against Japan over Taiwan. The island is, de facto independent but de jure part of one China, as the Republic of China (ROC), thus officially […]

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China’s Peace Pieces for Ukraine

Francesco Sisci / Director

- China -

30 November 2025

China is the elephant in the room of the Ukrainian peace talks, and the Witkoff plan looks like a way to have Russia be the winner while the US and China destroy each other. A real point of the peace plan on Ukraine is: what does China think? In fact, China is the elephant in […]