Home story #38/2026

Arabia Felix: French map of the "three Arabians", Nicolas Sanson, 1654

Even more bitter than the editorial coffee are the events of the past few days, which the editors of your favorite newspaper cannot ignore as they deserve. What did you get to read again... As soon as the Shiite Islamist organization Ansar Allah (also known as "Houthis") had conquered, among other things, the port city of Mokha in Yemen, Aleksandr Dugin, the Russian Putin whisperer with a weakness for all kinds of Eurasian nonsense, said, oblivious to history, in English on X, formerly Twitter: "Yemen is much older than Saudi Arabia. It is a real state with a fascinating history. The cradle of the real Arabia Felix. Its shine seems to be returning." Shiny Houthis, shiny Yemen! Someone should say that right-wing extremists have no interest in Islamists.

Trump applauded the AfD's good performance in Saxony-Anhalt, congratulated the "Populist Party" alias AfD and wrote: "MGGA!"

US President Donald Trump celebrated another right-wing extremist land grab on his own channel Truth Social. He applauded the AfD's good performance in Saxony-Anhalt, congratulated the "Populist Party" alias AfD and wrote: "MGGA!", which in MAGA speak can only mean: "Make Germany great again!" Of course, it's high time for a greater Germany like 80 or 90 years ago. Was Trump himself responsible for this mental flight? Or was it Natalie Harp, Trump's "human pacifier" (according to Maggie Haberman of the New York Times), his assistant who never leaves his side and runs his social media account? Harp could be credited with the post, after all, she also hatched the video published on Truth Social in which Barack and Michelle Obama were portrayed as monkeys.

Kirill Dmitriev, the head of the Russian state investment fund RDIF, who is simulating the pseudo-peace negotiations at the expense of Ukraine together with the US competence cluster made up of Jared Kushner and Steve Witkoff, was also extremely inspired by the AfD. He described - you have to figure it out first - the AfD on Dmitriyev wrote: "In 2027, together with the AfD, we will propose an economic forum between Russia, Germany and the USA to revive economic dialogue and bring back common sense." That is a nice prospect for the coming years: an alliance of Putin-Russia, Trump-USA and AfD-Germany, an infernal trio of fascistation with tons of common sense and strong peace rhetoric.