NATO

  After United States President Donald Trump’s bilateral meeting with Russian President Vladimir Putin in Alaska, a summit was held in Washington, D.C., with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy and the leaders of major European countries, NATO and the European Commission. The staging of these meetings was already significant. Alaska, once Russian territory, sits where the U.S. meets geographically with […]

It appears that a ceasefire in the Russia-Ukraine war is drawing near. The most likely demarcation line will hew closely to the current front. Genuine peace talks remain distant – the two sides are far apart. Kyiv still clings to the goal of restoring the country’s pre-2014 borders, while Moscow wants formal control of Crimea and the entire Donetsk, […]

The war in Ukraine is approaching its fourth year, with an enormous toll in human lives and resources. Western allies have gradually allowed Ukraine to deploy modern missile technology across the Russian border. While this escalation has inflicted damage on Russia, it appears to be too little, too late. However, it might pressure Moscow to […]

As the NATO summit starts in Vilnius, just next door, in Belarus, Russian tactical nuclear weapons are being deployed, and there is uncertainty over the presence of the notorious Wagner Group militia units there. So, as Western leaders such as United States President Joe Biden, Turkey’s President Recep Tayyip Erdogan and all other NATO leaders […]