Reporting, analysis, vision & strategy bearing on NATO, and its real role, relevance and influence on the international stage during times of peace and war.
NATO overreach It is easy to understand why some “peace” people are criticizing Donald Trump’s frequent threat to pull the US out…
With Germany at the forefront, the European Union has rejected the U.S. call for military intervention to reopen the Strait of Hormuz,…
Recently, Prime Minister Mark Carney ā perhaps the ultimate liberal insider ā gave a seminal speech at Davos, declaring the demise of…
It was always a pipe dream to expect that ramped-up defense spending would not eat into other budgetary items. It was always…
Europe has repeatedly rejected peace with Russia at moments when a negotiated settlement was available, and those rejections have proven profoundly self-defeating.…
US President Donald Trump has made it very clear that he is an enemy of Europe. His administrationās recent National Security Strategy…
This past week President Trump proposed a 28 Pt. plan to Russia and Ukraine as a basis for negotiations to end the…
NATOās standing threat to attack Russia with nuclear weapons is put on parade every autumn. This yearās thermonuclear dry runādubbed Steadfast Noonāgot…
Europe is on the war path with grandiose plans for building a war economy akin to the American military-industrial complex. As always,…
With the usual qualifier that I could be entirely wrong, my sense is that both the Alaska Summit and Mondayās meeting at…
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