War is horror. Its impact on the defeated is, furthermore, long and deep. Nazism and fascism emerged after the defeat of Germany and Italy in World War I. The Soviet Union fell months after the defeat in Afghanistan. And Trumpism cannot be explained without the defeat of the United States in Vietnam. Half a century has passed, yes, but the concatenation seems clear.

The war in Ukraine has entered a new stage. Trump is not only distancing himself from Kyiv but is also altering the European strategic balance and reviving a privileged relationship with Putin. His policy responds to a worldview that disdains traditional alliances, but it also responds to the historical fatigue of a society that has paid with lives and money for its status as a superpower.

The two worst moments in the relationship between Donald Trump and Volodymyr Zelenskyy have had a common denominator: they have arrived preceded by a telephone conversation between the United States president and Vladimir Putin, in which the Kremlin leader promised him major joint business deals. It happened in February 2025, before the public brawl between the American leader and the Ukrainian leader in the Oval Office of the White House, and it has happened again now, following the agreement for Moscow to sell diesel with Washington's permission, which caught Kyiv off guard. The Russian president has known at all times how to offer Trump what he desired, persuade him with his reasons, draw him to his positions, and pit him against Zelenskyy.

Just one week after the President of the United States, Donald Trump, announced the acquisition of 300,000 tons of Russian diesel, the New York tycoon signed an executive order late this Friday that temporarily suspends the application of a broad package of sanctions against Russia. He argued before Congress that it is a measure that responds to the "national interest," as reported by the White House.

The confrontation between Donald Trump and Volodymyr Zelenskyy is becoming more evident with each passing day. The US president continues to pressure his Ukrainian counterpart to stop attacking Russian refineries, while he negotiates the lifting of sanctions on Russian hydrocarbons and cuts military aid to Kyiv. Ukraine resumed its bombings this Thursday against these types of Russian facilities, after three days of suspension following Trump's announcement of an alleged immediate energy truce, which Moscow neither accepted nor complied with. "Enough is enough," said Zelenskyy in an interview with the Financial Times in which he announced that the blockade on attacks against Russian energy infrastructure was over. Hours later, Trump reacted by stating that "it is a disgrace".

Any joke that you might –pardon the expression– come up with about institutions, such as the army, is useless, because Donald Trump has already executed it. Now that he announces that in the end, no, he will not broadcast the execution show live (a pity, really, we miss out on popcorn and a circus) as he had promised us, we know that last year one of his henchmen “gathered all the high-ranking officers of the army at the Quantico base to warn them that he would restore the «warrior ethos»", we read in ARA. This henchman, who must be a sort of Joaquin Phoenix in Gladiator, accused the soldiers of having “allowed the existence of «fatties» and «bearded ones» in their ranks”. He also announced, watch out, testosterone tests.

Denmark and Greenland celebrated, three weeks ago, an agreement with the United States that they considered put an end to months of provocations and tensions between the two NATO partners. But Donald Trump has shown that he has no intention of abandoning his challenges to the Arctic island. This Wednesday, in a message on his social network, he claimed that the US is preparing large-scale hydrocarbon exploration. "A massive oil, gas and mineral exploration is being prepared to begin in our beautiful new Greenland!", wrote the American leader, using a clearly provocative possessive pronoun.

Donald Trump always manages to outdo himself, and this time his lack of empathy has outraged the United Kingdom. The President of the United States has shared through his social network, Truth Social, the video of the deadly tiger attack on a young British man, William Chapman, 24, accompanied by the comment: "Never mess with nature!" The events took place on Saturday at the Yorkshire Wildlife Park, a zoo located near Doncaster, in the north of England.

The White House has a press secretary again. Without barely looking up from the lectern and with an appearance much briefer than those her predecessor, Karoline Leavitt, used to make, Katie Zacharia debuted this Tuesday as the new spokesperson for the Donald Trump administration. The 41-year-old woman made her first appearance just after the US president announced over the weekend that he already had a new replacement for Leavitt.

After a few months in which it seemed that the relationship between Donald Trump and Volodymyr Zelenskyy had gotten on track, the statements, announcements, and events of the last few days suggest quite the opposite. On Friday, the President of the United States announced an agreement with his Russian counterpart, Vladimir Putin, with which Moscow is expected to deliver about two million tons of diesel to the US over the next two months, which represents a significant lifeline for the Kremlin's war economy. That same day, Trump hinted that Ukraine should change its president and threatened to stop sharing information with Kyiv in retaliation for Ukrainian attacks on Russian refineries.

On October 5th, in the middle of the midterm election campaign, Donald Trump delivered a speech in Nebraska. Nothing new: patriotic grandiloquence and discursive posturing about the greatness of America. Once the speech ended, Y.M.C.A., by the Village People, played—that song which in the seventies became an icon of gay culture and which today Trump has adopted as his campaign soundtrack. The president then gave himself over to his now-characteristic robotic dance, until a movement revealed an unexpected detail: the suit's label, with the name Jos. A. Bank. An American brand that, at first glance, seemed consistent with one of Trump's most recurring proclamations: consuming products manufactured in the United States. But is the case of Trump and his protectionist measures in fashion exceptional?

The so-called "energy ceasefire" between Russia and Ukraine announced by Donald Trump has not even begun. When he tried to impose it on Sunday, Volodymyr Zelenskyy replied that he knew nothing about it but that they would accept it. "We are ready to respect an energy ceasefire if Russia is ready to do the same," he said. As of this edition's deadline, Russia has officially said nothing about it, but it hasn't been necessary. Last night, Russia attacked a power plant in Kharkiv and a gas production plant and a service station in Zhytomyr, according to Kyiv.

Federal agents from the United States Department of Homeland Security (DHS) searched the home of Democratic congresswoman Ilhan Omar this Monday, as part of an investigation opened by the Department of Justice to determine if the legislator's parents, of Somali origin, committed irregularities in their immigration process. The raid marks an escalation in the harassment against Omar by Donald Trump, who earlier this year said that the legislator should be deported despite being a U.S. citizen. The execution of the search warrant comes with just over three weeks remaining before the Congressional elections, scheduled for November 3.

The President of the United States, Donald Trump, has announced an "energy ceasefire" between Ukraine and Russia in a statement on his social network, Truth Social. According to Trump, it has been an agreement "of an immediate nature" between the two parties and he has asked that they "do not break it." For the moment, only the Ukrainian president, Volodymyr Zelenskyy, has spoken about the announcement, saying that he was unaware of it at the time it was made public. "If President Trump has negotiated with Putin, please, let him tell us when the ceasefire begins. We are ready and we will accept it," stated Zelenskyy. For the Ukrainian president, the truce is "good news" and "it is important that it becomes a reality."

We find ourselves immersed in a moment of confusion in which, as time goes by, the fight to control the AI narrative becomes more complicated and intensified. To the tension between the different sides trying to either sell, understand, or regulate these technological creations, another plot twist has been added: Donald Trump has ordered that from now on, in governmental affairs, AI shall be called superintelligence, which will also lead to the substitution of the acronym AI for SI. This measure (Trump's true colors are showing) is an attempt to counteract the growing animosity of the citizenry towards AI and its representatives, who in recent months have dedicated themselves to spreading the dangers of developing it without regulation far and wide.

Last December, Donald Trump and Elon Musk met at the White House. It was yet another meeting between the American president and the billionaire owner of Tesla and SpaceX, but in this case, there was a bizarre moment. During the time they shared, Trump asked the artificial intelligence chatbot Grok, developed by Musk's team, how Venezuelans would react to an eventual capture of their president, Nicolás Maduro. A few weeks later, on January 3rd, the United States launched an attack in which they kidnapped the Venezuelan leader.

The interest rates on ten-year US Treasury bonds soared this Wednesday above 5.3%, thereby surpassing the peak reached in 2007 – the year before the bursting of the real estate bubble – and reaching their highest level since 2002. The figure is an indicator of how the perception of risk associated with the US economy under the administration of President Donald Trump is changing among investors.

"We will always be there for Japan". With these words, the President of the United States, Donald Trump, explained his government's intervention at the beginning of August to curb the fall of the yen, the Japanese currency, in the markets. The declaration of support and friendship, however, has been followed by certain tensions between him and the Asian country's Prime Minister, Sanae Takaichi, as the White House considers that she is not doing enough to stop the decline of her currency.

The President of the United States, Donald Trump, has signed an executive order this Tuesday to replace the term artificial intelligence for superintelligence in federal government official communications. At a time when criticism of the artificial intelligence industry is on the rise in the United States, the decision aims to improve the image of AI.

Right now we are living in a surreal dystopia stretched between two apparently opposite extremes. On one hand, we are frightened by the possibility that a potentially superintelligent AI might end up annihilating humanity; on the other, we suffer from the human stupidity of a good portion of our political leaders. A paradox between artificial intelligence and natural foolishness that, if it weren't for everything we have at stake, could seem comical to us. Leaders who, all too often, whether out of overconfidence or because they feel in danger, seem to start rambling in their public statements, taking their shortcomings out for a walk. And it is precisely in this context that Donald Trump has decided to imagine a uniform for the Space Force that does not exist... nor does it seem likely to exist.On September 6th, the President of the United States surprised the world with a post on Truth Social. This consisted of the image of a supposed new uniform for the Space Force, the latest branch of the American Armed Forces, created by Trump in 2019, intended to protect and operate the country's military space infrastructure. We are not dealing with astronauts, but with what he has dubbed "guardians": military personnel who, beyond exploration tasks, must dominate, protect, and defend this new military domain. With the Space Force, Trump contributes to transforming the space scenario that, until now, we had associated primarily with science and fiction into a new space for military combat.