Recently the Sunday Times broke the story that a sitting unnamed Irish left-wing member of parliament was recruited by the Kremlin through the use of a honeytrap in 2019 to incite tensions between Ireland, the United Kingdom and the EU over Brexit talks.  

Georgia’s population took to the polls during the final weekend of October, with many voters hoping for a democratic change in the government to bolster their strong pursuit of future European integration. However, official results gave the pro-Russian ‘Georgian Dream’ party a 54 percent majority, highlighting the country’s ongoing struggle against high level corruption alongside the extension of its alignment to President Putin’s regime. 

For the first time since Grover Cleveland’s return to the White House in 1893, Donald J. Trump has secured a second, non-consecutive term as President. In the days following the election, political analysts and pundits have scrambled to dissect the forces that led to this outcome, often through a partisan lens. Yet what remains indisputable is that his victory heralds a renewed embrace of the inward-looking, nativist policies that characterized his first administration, raising profound questions about the trajectory of U.S. leadership on the global stage.