Europe
Coverage of NATO dynamics, Russia-Europe tensions, transatlantic relations, and European Union policy and security architecture.
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
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...
Daily Brief: 21 December 2025
The internet ran out of addresses 14 years ago, creating a digital tax on developing nations. Australia's terror threat came from a strategic partner, not the usual suspects.
The Great Unbundling: Academic Publishing and the Battle for Knowledge in the AI Era
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
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
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...
