Tarik Cyril Amar

2 weeks ago | nexusnewsfeed.com | Tarik Cyril Amar |Eastern Europe

The sooner Kiev and its Western backers realize there will be no one-sided deal, the sooner peace might comeBy Tarik Cyril Amar, a historian from Germany working at Koç University, Istanbul, on Russia, Ukraine, and Eastern Europe, the history of World War II, the cultural Cold War, and the politics of memory@tarikcyrilamartarikcyrilamar.substack.comtarikcyrilamar.com FILE PHOTO: Vladimir Zelensky.

2 weeks ago | qoshe.com | Tarik Cyril Amar

Despite Ukraine’s and the EU’s worst efforts at underhanded sabotage, the Istanbul talks – the first direct Russian-Ukrainian talks in three years – have now taken place. They may be over for now, they may continue soon. They may still turn into a dead end or they may help get somewhere better than war. What is clear already is that they are not meaningless. The question is what that meaning will be once we look back on them from the near future of either peace or continuing war.

3 weeks ago | tarikcyrilamar.com | Tarik Cyril Amar

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3 weeks ago | qoshe.com | Tarik Cyril Amar

A single, small, low-quality do-it-yourself poster recently displayed in the center of Germany’s capital Berlin has caused a minor scandal that has gone against the grain of the country’s usually unshakable support for Israel while the latter is committing genocide. The essence of the incident is simple: in late April, the Deutsch-Israelische Gesellschaft (DIG) – “German-Israeli Society” – held one of its “Israel Days” in Berlin. In Germany, the DIG is a prominent and powerful organization.

3 weeks ago | open.substack.com | Tarik Cyril Amar

It seems long ago already, but politically speaking, it was really only yesterday that the last, deeply unpopular German government collapsed on 6 November of last year. Based on a fractious coalition and led by hapless Olaf Scholz, it was a flop from almost the beginning to the bitter end. But what finally imploded Scholz’s cabinet was its finance minister’s refusal to hollow out Germany’s – back then – severe restrictions on public debt, specifically to throw even more money at Ukraine.