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PARIS — Is Donald Trump seriously going to give Canadians their “Che-Eh! Guevara” moment and try to seize Canada?

Maybe the U.S. military could war game out how it could first hold the territory of, say, Old Montreal for more than a week — its pubs and bars full of belligerent sports fans with “Molson-grade strength” — before it ...Read more

PARIS – French President Emmanuel Macron is leading the European Union’s latest panic-buying spree. Only this time, instead of toilet paper, they’re looking to stockpile weapons. Same irrational impulse.

Naturally, Macron is blaming U.S. President Donald Trump (suddenly) and Russian President Vladimir Putin (perpetually) for the urgent ...Read more

MOSCOW — US President Donald Trump thought that Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy was ready to walk down the aisle and say “I do” to a rare earth minerals deal with the US at the White House. But then Zelensky decided to play hard to get — swiping left in Trump’s face so hard that it’s a miracle it didn’t leave an actual mark...Read more

MOSCOW — There was a noticeable shift here in the last few days. Russians seem … lighter. Like they were just told that vodka hydrates better than water. And I’m not the only one to have noticed. American and Western expats here have picked up on the same vibe, and admit to a similar feeling themselves.

It all started when US Secretary of...Read more

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