Zelensky’s NATO bid falls flat
The reaction to his application for accelerated membership was muted, exposing the limits of the West’s military involvement in this war.
The reaction to his application for accelerated membership was muted, exposing the limits of the West’s military involvement in this war.
However, the respondents in this major German Marshall Fund survey think Washington influence is on the wane, while China’s is growing.
The chances of this widening into a much more devastating conflict demands the West explore what may be possible.
With news of possible annexation and potential use of nuclear weapons, Washington must put on the brakes and press for talks.
Ukraine is asking for new ‘security guarantees’ from the West which will only ratchet up the spending and risk a nuclear spiral, say critics.
The time for settlement is now — before tens of thousands more die and Ukraine has suffered still greater harm.
The Washington Post has launched a new history-shaping exercise, but it fails to ask the right questions and omits Biden’s most serious mistakes.
For years the Pentagon has poured billions into private industry to prove advanced technology wins wars. Now NATO wants into the act.
For a longterm peace, the region needs new security structures outside of the alliance that eventually include Russia.
These historically complex conflicts can only be resolved by a long-term, patient strategy led by Europeans, not the US.
A ceasefire now followed by rigorous diplomacy could prevent the conflict from carrying on indefinitely.
Some think it’s time for NATO to show its ‘overwhelming power’ against Putin, but as always, the devil is in the details.
The Atlantic Alliance has called Moscow its ‘most significant and direct threat,’ but how do both sides’ militaries actually compare?
Opposition to U.S. militarization of the Pacific is growing, with one group calling the exercise “dangerous, provocative and destructive.”
Erdogan finally acquiesced to Finland and Sweden’s membership in the Atlantic Alliance after failing to get everything he wanted in return.
Calls for a ‘coalition of the willing’ to establish a ‘maritime corridor’ are designed to obfuscate the dangers that it will create.
While Europe becomes increasingly dependent on the US in its own backyard, the alliance puts Beijing on notice.
The NATO summit, as well as Lithuania’s moves on Kaliningrad, show that the lessons of WWI — its beginning and end — are lost on us.
As the war in Ukraine drags on, already diverging camps in the Atlantic Alliance are likely to fracture further.
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Going forward with the scheduled meeting at the end of the month risks creating serious problems when the alliance can least afford them.