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Coverage of NATO dynamics, Russia-Europe tensions, transatlantic relations, and European Union policy and security architecture.

When the Network Goes Dark: Starlink's Vulnerability and the Future of Western Military Power

When the Network Goes Dark: Starlink's Vulnerability and the Future of Western Military Power

Russia's growing ability to jam SpaceX's satellite constellation threatens not just Ukraine's battlefield communications but the entire architecture of American and NATO military operations from Eastern Europe to the Pacific.

The Cornered Rat: What Made Vladimir Putin

The Cornered Rat: What Made Vladimir Putin

A childhood in post-siege Leningrad, abandonment in Dresden, and the chaos of 1990s Russia forged a leader who experiences geopolitics as personal survival. Understanding Putin's formative crucibles explains decisions that have reshaped Europe.

The Window That Won't Close: Russia's Shadow Fleet and NATO's Undersea Vulnerability

The Window That Won't Close: Russia's Shadow Fleet and NATO's Undersea Vulnerability

Russia's shadow fleet has spent years mapping NATO's undersea cables and pipelines in the Baltic and North Sea. The intelligence is collected. The targets are known. In a crisis, the vulnerability window—measured in weeks of degraded communications and months of repairs—favors the attacker. NATO...

Germany's Eastern Promise: Strategic Shift or Expensive Theater?

Germany's Eastern Promise: Strategic Shift or Expensive Theater?

Berlin has pledged its first permanent foreign military deployment since 1945—a 5,000-strong brigade in Lithuania by 2027. The commitment is real. Whether Germany can fulfill it remains the central question for NATO's eastern flank.

The Sovereignty Loophole: Why NATO Cannot Stop Russia's Shadow Fleet

The Sovereignty Loophole: Why NATO Cannot Stop Russia's Shadow Fleet

Over 600 Russian-linked vessels conduct espionage operations in European waters while NATO watches helplessly. The problem is not military capability but legal architecture—a gap between eighteenth-century maritime law and twenty-first-century hybrid warfare that the world's most powerful...

The Partnership That Isn't

The Partnership That Isn't

Russia and China present a united front against Western hegemony. But beneath the summits and joint statements lie deep structural tensions—over status, territory, and economic dependency—that Western policy could exploit through patience rather than manipulation.

The Confessional Booth Has a Backdoor

The Confessional Booth Has a Backdoor

European health ministries have traded data sovereignty for operational capacity, signing contracts with intelligence-linked analytics firms that GDPR cannot constrain. The legal architecture was designed for a threat that no longer exists.

The Pipeline and the Sword

Energy & Climate

The Pipeline and the Sword

Russia's weaponisation of energy exports has transformed NATO's strategic calculus more profoundly than any military build-up since 1991. The alliance now faces a contest where molecules matter as much as missiles—and where Europe's thirty-year bet on interdependence has become its most...