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

The Hierarchy of the Ungrievable: Why Sudan Burns Alone

The Hierarchy of the Ungrievable: Why Sudan Burns Alone

With over 150,000 dead and famine gripping multiple states, Sudan's civil war has become the world's largest humanitarian crisis. The West's near-total absence reveals not hypocrisy but something more structural: a new hierarchy of geopolitical concern that operates according to rules rarely...

Germany's Conscription Questionnaire Reveals Europe's Mobilization Illusion

Germany's Conscription Questionnaire Reveals Europe's Mobilization Illusion

Berlin's new selective service law asks young men to fill out forms while NATO's eastern flank faces a 2028-2030 threat window. The gap between bureaucratic gesture and military capability exposes Europe's defense architecture as dependent on American protection it may not receive.

The Shells That Count: What Ukraine Reveals About Western Defense Procurement

The Shells That Count: What Ukraine Reveals About Western Defense Procurement

Ukraine fires 6,000 artillery rounds daily while Western production struggles to keep pace. The conflict has not proven that mass defeats precision—it has exposed a procurement philosophy built for wars that may never come while neglecting wars that might.

Daily Brief: 03 January 2026

Daily Brief: 03 January 2026

Germany drafts teenagers for a 2026 war while America fires Tomahawks from ships after losing its African bases to coups.

The Decade That Decides: America, China, and Russia's Collision Course

The Decade That Decides: America, China, and Russia's Collision Course

Three great powers operate on three incompatible timescales. Washington resets every four years, Beijing plans through 2035, Moscow thinks in generations. The next decade will reveal which clock keeps better time—and whether any of them can be synchronized before collision.

Daily Brief: 26 December 2025

Daily Brief: 26 December 2025

America sanctions its allies for regulating Big Tech while scrambling to match China's ten-million drone advantage with 60-day delivery promises.

The Unmaking of the West

The Unmaking of the West

When America sanctions Europeans for enforcing European law, it is not merely disagreeing about policy—it is declaring that the European conception of digital governance is itself illegitimate. The transatlantic relationship has survived many disputes. It may not survive this one.

Daily Brief: 25 December 2025

Daily Brief: 25 December 2025

Sudan's 14 million displaced trigger no intervention while Russia systematically blinds the satellites keeping Ukraine connected.

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.

Daily Brief: 23 December 2025

Daily Brief: 23 December 2025

Russian shadow tankers map NATO's undersea cables while Silicon Valley controls half the world's ocean bandwidth—but Pacific nations can't fix their own internet when it breaks.

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...