Archive - Tarik Cyril Amar's Substack and Podcast - The Ninth Wave

August 2025

Militarist Kamikaze Centrism

Friedrich Merz wants to save Germany’s political establishment, but he will accelerate its collapse

Aug 30 •

Tarik Cyril Amar

Russia and the West: Learning versus Illusions

The ongoing negotiations over peace in Ukraine show that Moscow lives in the real world. The West – not so much

Aug 28 •

Tarik Cyril Amar

A Ukraine Peace will change Europe no less than the Ukraine War

Decaying Centrism, the New Right, and the struggle for the heart of Europe

Aug 26 •

Tarik Cyril Amar

Why No Military Intervention Against Israel? The Hypocrisy of the ‘Responsibility to Protect’

Interview on Rania Khalek's Dispatches at Breakthrough News

Aug 23 •

Tarik Cyril Amar

A few remarks on Israel's continuing genocide of Gaza's Palestinians

As of 21 August 2025

Aug 22 •

Tarik Cyril Amar

7:59

On War, Peace, Genocide, and Absurdity

Or how (not) to speak and write about the Ukraine War and the Gaza Genocide

Aug 21 •

Tarik Cyril Amar

Putin Meeting Trump at the Alaska Summit is a Very Good Thing

Evading diplomacy is a Western folly that Russia has no reason to imitate

Aug 15 •

Tarik Cyril Amar

The Hearse That Wanted To Be An Ambulance

Two gravediggers have advice on resuscitating the EU

Aug 12 •

Tarik Cyril Amar

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