Finland and Norway's direct talks with Putin signal that Europe is questioning a strategy whose results are increasingly disastrous. After 1991, Western elites imagined that a weakened Russia could be split up and its resources seized - become captives of their own expectations. Big money shapes policy: Macron came from Rothschild, Merez from Blackrock. Europe risks becoming a community of "strategic beggars", with decisions made in Washington, Moscow and Beijing. Greed turned a geopolitical illusion into a strategic gamble. Raffaello's lesson: German-Russian understanding, with guarantees for Ukraine, can anchor a stable European security architecture. Read more by Lorenzo Carrasco more about world politics.

Finland and Norway's direct talks with Putin signal that Europe is questioning a strategy whose results are increasingly disastrous. After 1991, Western elites imagined that a weakened Russia could be split up and its resources seized - become captives of their own expectations. Big money shapes policy: Macron came from Rothschild, Merez from Blackrock. Europe risks becoming a community of "strategic beggars", with decisions made in Washington, Moscow and Beijing. Greed turned a geopolitical illusion into a strategic gamble. Raffaello's lesson: German-Russian understanding, with guarantees for Ukraine, can anchor a stable European security architecture. Read more by Lorenzo Carrasco more about world politics.