Expanding the Legacy
Tag: NATO
5 Posts
Trump’s Wonderful Week Marks EU Misery
Whilst former US president Donald Trump – need we remind all and sundry that the man is a convicted felon? – had an excellent week, Europe suffered a funk of sorts as the likelihood of a Trump 2.0 administration seemed all but inevitable. Undoubtedly, Trump supporters, fans, and idolisers enjoyed...
UN Marginalised, NATO Facing Change
Whilst Donald Trump is often portrayed as unhinged and simple-minded, including on this forum; he does possess a surprisingly clear vision of America’s place and role in the world. It is a vision - or perhaps an instinct - that resonates with a great many American voters who agree with Mr Trump that the US should stay out of world affairs, discard geopolitical considerations, and concentrate on furthering its own interests, rather than those of longtime allies.
NATO Boots-on-the-Ground in Ukraine
This is how a continent sleepwalks into war. It’s not that Europe desires war, or pines for it after a hiatus of seventy years. Rather, the continent is slowly being ushered into one by immutable circumstance over which it no longer has control. It happened before. In 1914, the German...
New Security Reality in Europe
The peace dividend, now exhausted, delivered the countries of Europe a windfall of some €4.2 trillion (£3.6 trillion) over the past thirty years – a sum roughly equivalent to a quarter of the European Union’s GDP. The number comes from Bruegel, a non-partisan policy think tank in Brussels. The institute...
Russia: In Search of Lost Time
Before the shooting starts anew, let’s mention the war. Not the war we know, but the one that lives on in the often-indecipherable psyche of Russia, laced as it is with nostalgia and wounded pride. Widely recognised in the West as the beginning of the end for Nazi Germany, Operation...
