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Schoolchildren and students across Germany took to the streets in December 2025 to protest against compulsory military service for young men. Michael Gloss, the son of the senior CIA official Juliane Gallina, was 21 years old when he died fighting for Russian forces in Ukraine, the same age as these youngsters who claim that "I'd rather live in Putin's Germany than go to war".

Serbia, Russia’s little sabre rattler

The main issue to understand concerning Serbia-Russia relations is that after the failure to expand its territories during the Yugoslav wars and the subsequent loss of its southern province of Kosovo, Serbian revanchists based their policies on the premise that one day Russia and China will rise up against US-led Western hegemony, which will enable us to have another go at making a Greater Serbia.