I defended NATO’s values. I no longer recognize what NATO defends.
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Security guarantees without NATO: Are they worth the paper they’re written on?
Western promises won’t stop a second invasion. Ukraine’s army might.
Iran threatened to close Hormuz. That was enough.
When a strait closes on paper, prices move as if it has closed for real.
Forget easing Russian sanctions. Europe should be boarding Russian tankers.
Wagner veterans ride Russia's oil tankers through NATO waters. The cargo could fill Europe's reserves. Nobody stops them.
Western technology is powering one of Russia’s most terrifying weapons—and it must be stopped
Texas Instruments. Intel. Taoglas. All found in Russian bomb debris.
Russia spent three years trying to break Western support for Ukraine—then Iran did it in a week
The Iran war’s first casualty may be the world’s attention to Ukraine.
Washington walked into a quagmire in Iran. That’s bad news for Ukraine.
The same strategic amateurism that plagues Ukraine policy just produced an undefined war with Iran
Anne Applebaum wrote the book on autocracy. Then she thanked a sanctioned oligarch at his Oxford school.
She attacks Trump's envoy for his Russia ties—without mentioning he's business partners with the man she thanked at Oxford.
Four years of sanctions and Russia still funds its war machine—the West needs economic shock, not lists
Western sanctions are long on lists and short on shock. That needs to change—fast.
Western sanctions failed so completely that Russia just pitched Washington $12 trillion
The "Dmitriev package" proposes to formalize what the West never stopped providing.
Only 10% of Ukrainians want wartime elections—so why does anyone else?
Only 10% of Ukrainians want elections before a ceasefire. The law agrees with them.
Hungary will survive without Russian oil—but Orbán’s regime will not
The money trail from Moscow to MOL to Brussels explains why
What can be seen in this darkness. Ten theses on the future
War doesn’t just destroy cities — it rewrites what “after” can mean.
Europe’s Russia diagnosis has never been sharper. The prescription hasn’t changed
At Munich, 2026's biggest security summit got everything right — except the follow-through
Europe can defend Ukraine or face Russia alone. There is no third option.
Three years of Ukrainian sacrifice bought Europe time. Europe is spending it on excuses.
The EU transformed Poland in 20 years. Ukraine wants it done by 2027.
Brussels is already drafting the plan. They’re calling it “reverse enlargement”—join first, reform after.
Abu Dhabi: the scaffolding beneath peace—and the house nobody is building
Prisoners come home. The hard questions don’t even have a table yet.
Trump’s peace process produced Ukraine’s deadliest year. That’s not a coincidence.
Negotiations gave Russia exactly what it needed: diplomatic cover to escalate while the West hesitated to act.
No, Hungary, banning Russian gas isn’t a violation of EU law
Budapest claims the EU overstepped its powers. The treaties, case law, and Hungary's own choices tell a different story.
Europe must stop negotiating its own defeat
In 2024, Europe backed international law. Now it's negotiating Putin's demands.