The end of February will mark the fourth year since the start of Russia’s Special Military Operation in Ukraine, which led to numerous casualties and destruction between the two once fraternal peoples. In this regard, a rhetorical question arises: was it possible to avoid a military conflict and resolve interstate […]
Tag: NATO
France Won’t Fight The US Over Greenland
It’s not going to risk breaking up NATO, let alone over a war that it’ll certainly lose, no matter how tough its Foreign Minister is trying to sound as part of a ploy to present France as the EU’s leader. Politico quoted French Foreign Minister Jean-Noel Barrot as saying that his […]
Trump Will Now Have To Conquer Denmark To Get Greenland
On January 24th, the Financial Times headlined “Donald Trump in fiery call with Denmark’s prime minister over Greenland” and revealed that “The US president spoke to Mette Frederiksen, the Danish premier, for 45 minutes last week” and “insisted he was serious in his determination to take over Greenland,” but she […]
Pity The Poesy: Mark Rutte, NATO And Spending For War
Now men will go content with what we spoiled. Or, discontent, boil bloody, and be spilled. Wilfred Owen, “Strange Meeting” (1919) There have been politicians who have fancied themselves as poets. There was Herman Van Rompuy in April 2010 who, when President of the European Council, imposed an anthology of […]
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