Cuba has been under a devastating US embargo since 1960, but since February this year, Donald Trump and his Secretary of State, Marco Rubio, have tightened the screws further, imposing a total blockade on oil products to the country and, moreover, threatening the few foreign companies operating there to withdraw. Without oil, the country is on the brink of total collapse, and the consequences for the population are catastrophic. The silence of the outside world is deafening.

Apparently inspired by Donald Trump’s success in seizing ships carrying Venezuelan oil and confiscating and selling the cargo, and now his success in completely blocking all shipping of oil products to Cuba, the EU has recently decided that it too wants to be part of this new world order and do the same with Russian oil. Has any thought been given to how Russia will react, and what the consequences will be for the right to freedom of navigation on the world’s oceans? A right on which the EU itself is critically dependent.

It has been announced that NATO will go to war with Russia in 2030. That is what Merz, Mette, Stubb, Rutte and all the others are saying. It is not a risk. It is a fact. The public must prepare themselves, they say. So how will this war unfold? We are given no explanation. But perhaps the US war with Iran might give us an idea of how it will happen.

The last few months have seen it become a fact that the tide of war in Ukraine has finally turned. So at last the hundreds of billions of Euro and dollars that NATO countries have poured into Ukraine, and the hundreds of thousands of sacrificed Ukrainian soldiers, are finally being justified, aren't they? Sorry to say it, but the answer is no.

The last few months have seen it become a fact that the tide of war in Ukraine has finally turned. So at last the hundreds of billions of Euro and dollars that NATO countries have poured into Ukraine, and the hundreds of thousands of sacrificed Ukrainian soldiers, are finally being justified, aren't they? Sorry to say it, but the answer is no.

‘We in America have no interest in being polite and orderly caretakers of the West’s managed decline’, said US Foreign Secretary Marco Rubio at the Munich Security Conference. And he added: We will ‘renew the greatest civilization in human history’. So his message is: The empire is back”!