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Want to save NATO? Ask its members to do less.

What if individual members were able to sit out operations — or conversely, lead them — when their countries had a direct interest in doing so?

Russian President Vladimir Putin made statements at a joint press conference held after his meeting with Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban at the Kremlin Palace
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Rolling Stone hits hysterical note suggesting Putin NATO attack nigh

An increasingly popular narrative claims Trump is putting Europe in the Kremlin's crosshairs

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Europe

An independent Europe means no more US rooster in the henhouse

Washington will have to get used to transformed international politics where it's no longer the center of the universe.

Odessa ports
Europe

Russia's lockdown of Odessa ports could be a grim turning point in war

A lesson to all purveyors of the idea that Ukraine could be a 'steel porcupine' and avoid a mutual agreement to end the conflict. It's a trap.

Trouble in Paris? There's a Gaullist cure for that American hubris
Europe

Trouble in Paris? There's a Gaullist cure for that American hubris

Gen. Charles de Gaulle would have never postponed the reinterment of French resistance hero Marc Bloch for the convenience of the American president

France is doubling down on nukes. Will Europe pay a price?
Europe

France is doubling down on nukes. Will Europe pay a price?

Macron's efforts to deploy strategic warheads in Scandinavia may strain relations with Russia — and within NATO