Russia's Vladimir Putin is playing a shrewd game with Ukraine to increase his nation's power and geopolitical position.

Vladimir Putin's leadership has brought Russia back into play as a world power, and nearby nations are once again bracing against its unwelcome aggression.

World news, events, and trends highlighting biblical prophecy for March-April 2005: Franco-German Divergence.

Having failed to keep the Russians out and the Germans down, NATO is struggling to remain relevant in a changing world.

A little-known town in Eastern Europe has given its name to a newly formed battle group consisting of Poland, Hungary, the Czech Republic, and Slovakia.

Many who believe Germany to be modern Assyria have waited a long time for Germany to rise again. Signs in Europe point in that direction.

Russian President Vladimir Putin is turning his nation's interests outward—and that does not bode well for international relations.

Russia seems like a nation—an empire—in deep decline. But is it? We would be wise to keep an eye on the Russian bear!

We would be wise to keep an eye on the Shanghai Cooperation Organization over the next few years.

The United States stands weakened by worldwide conditions, but its foreign enemies cannot match its power. Its real foe lies much closer.

Despite Germany's amicable relationships with its neighbors for two generations, signs of Berlin's growing influence are causing anxiety across Europe.

Recently, the vaunted power of the American armed forces has begun to erode under weak and vacillating leadership, undermining its hegemony.

The space race began less than seventy years ago, and now humanity stands on the brink of space-based weaponry and its potential for disaster on Earth.

With one look at American activity on the world scene, an observer is struck by the lack of coherence of this administration's foreign policy.

The last few decades have seen the rise of globalism as a prime factor in international relations. But the pendulum is swinging back toward nationalism.

The societal and generational cycles of America, Europe, and Russia are converging, and the result will prove to be devastating.

God prophesies that Israel will be conquered in the end time. Could anti-American sentiment, especially in Europe, be the beginning of the end?

Germany is an industrial powerhouse, the richest economy in Europe, but it must prop up several poor-performing economies throughout the rest of the EU.

The land of Israel's position at the crossroads of three continents makes the Holy Land strategically valuable to the great powers around it.

Three events are taking place in Asia with an intensity never before witnessed in human history—at least not since the Flood. How might they affect us?

The United States used to be the world's superpower and policeman. Today, however, new powers are rising to fill the vacuum created by America's retreat.

Statistics show that the birth rate for the Western nations has dropped below the replacement rate of 2.1 children per woman, sometimes significantly so.

Global conflict increased dramatically between 2021 and 2023, in contrast to the prior six years. The outlook for peace apart from Christ's return is dim.

With the end of the Cold War, are we entering a time of peace? Hardly. Human nature remains the same, so war is never far off!

Only a catastrophe of biblical proportions could forestall the tendency for Asia's populations to age substantially between now and 2025.

Population trends become reliable trends of future national consequences. We do not have a debt crisis as much as a death crisis.

Why has anti-Semitism remained a part of this world's way of thinking? Recent history shows that anti-Semitism has morphed into new expressions of an old evil.

It seems counter-intuitive to think that the world's population is shrinking, but trend lines show the possibility of a 95% reduction in population ahead.

Liberalism rarely considers actual outcomes—that is, it often promotes a course of action without studying how such actions has worked out in the past.

Because restraints that once held human nature in check have been removed, the US has grown increasingly more corrupt, approaching conditions before the Flood.

Opposing worldviews, individualism and collectivism, fight for dominance in cultures worldwide. Their struggle may play a prominent role in the end time.