A major incident at sea could instantly spark a New Cold War crisis that brings the Baltic front of this competition to the center of global attention. Politico reported last week that some EU countries might seize Russia’s “shadow fleet” in the Baltic Sea on the pretext of complying with international […]
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Here’s What Comes Next After Putin & Trump Just Agreed To Start Peace Talks
The path ahead will be very difficult due to the sensitive issues that Russia and the US must resolve. 12 February 2025 will go down in history as the day when the NATO-Russian proxy war in Ukraine officially began to end. Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth started everything off by declaring that: […]
Greenland’s Past, Present And Future (II)
Part I This primarily concerns monitoring military activity by a potential adversary in the air and maritime areas of the North Atlantic and Arctic, which remain partially unknown territory for NATO, lacking sufficient intelligence and analysis of the situation in the region. Under these circumstances, the Danish government sees Donald […]
Trump’s ‘Deal’ To End Ukraine’s War Is To Continue Biden’s Policy
Stephen Bryen is retired from a career near the top at both the U.S. Defense Department and a top-ten U.S. armaments manufacturer, and on February 10th he issued a commentary which makes clear that Trump’s policy regarding Ukraine’s war doesn’t yet, and probably never will, separate itself from what President Biden’s […]
Russia’s Special Military Operation In Ukraine: Prospects For The Future
On February 24, 2022, Russia launched its Special Military Operation in Ukraine, which was perceived in the United States and Western Europe as “Putin’s Russia’s unprovoked aggression against democratic Ukraine.” In December 2021, at the Russian-American summit in Geneva, the-then US President Biden repelled Moscow’s offer to sign an agreement […]
America Is Consolidating Its Influence In Asia (I)
New contours of security architecture in the Indo-Pacific (IPR) are being formed in the context of the U.S.-China rivalry, referred to as strategic competition in the 2022 National Security Strategy (NSS). For regional actors, this dynamic is both a challenge and an opportunity to navigate the contradictions between Washington and […]
Misinterpretations Of The Evolution Of The United States (II)
Part I Continuing our analysis of the misinterpretations of the Trump administration’s actions, we return to the closure of many federal agencies, the reason why it plans to deport Palestinians, and its approach to the war in Ukraine. The Return of Southernism The United States was both Southern and Federalist. […]
Greenland’s Past, Present And Future (I)
Denmark’s relationship with Greenland and the Faroe Islands cannot continue indefinitely, and Donald Trump’s actions have only emphasized this. On January 15, 2025, Mette Frederiksen, Denmark’s prime minister, had a 45-minute phone call with the American president to discuss security in the Arctic region. Later that month, it became clear […]
Breaking Tradition? Why The Swiss Likely Not To Revise Its Neutrality Policy
When we say the word “neutrality,” we immediately think of Switzerland. Indeed, the unique foreign policy position has allowed a small and extremely heterogeneous state in the heart of Europe to develop independently and grow rich over the centuries. The country successfully avoided the First and Second World Wars, and […]
Missed Opportunities To Resolve The Russian-Ukrainian Conflict
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 […]
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