With Belarus, Vladimir Putin continues his nuclear blackmail
Russia’s announcement that it will station nuclear weapons in its neighbouring country is intended to put pressure on the West.
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Nato (the North Atlantic Treaty Organisation) is an intergovernmental military alliance with 31 member states from Europe and North America. It was founded in 1949 with twelve members, including the US and the UK, committed to a principle of collective defence.
Hungary is the main roadblock to Finland and Sweden’s Nato membership
Following Turkey’s lead, Viktor Orbán is discovering his own power to twist circumstances to Hungary’s advantage.
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Will Ukraine run out of ammunition?
Complacency and budget cuts have depleted western reserves since the Cold War.
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In the face of Russia’s aggression, global alliances have proven their indispensability
In 2019 Emmanuel Macron declared that Nato had suffered a “brain death”, but in Munich world leaders showed otherwise.
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How Putin lost the energy war
European gaspolitik has defeated Russia this winter.
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How a bestselling novel reveals French sympathy for Putin
The Wizard of the Kremlin has provoked fierce debate in France, where support for Russia lingers on both the right…
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What would foreign policy look like in a Labour government?
David Lammy’s priorities appear similar to Rishi Sunak’s – the difference is he may be able to actually deliver them.
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Ukraine is not a proxy war
It is Kyiv – not the West – which has set Ukraine’s war aims.
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Why Ukraine’s designs on Crimea could split the West
Some allies fear threatening to retake the peninsula could provoke a nuclear attack.
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Nato’s taboo of not sending tanks to Ukraine is slowly being broken
The West’s military aid to Ukraine is getting heavier and heavier.
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The Ukraine war has made predictions futile
Russia can’t win its self-evidently stupid war – and working out what will happen next is almost impossible.
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Emmanuel Macron is undermining French support for Ukraine
Paris’s commendable backing to Kyiv is too often obscured by the president’s erraticness.
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Estonia supports Ukraine because we know the devastation of Russian imperialism
Moscow’s full-scale war did not come as a surprise to us, but we didn’t believe it would so closely replay…
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Jens Stoltenberg: “We will support Ukraine for as long as it takes”
Nato’s secretary-general on why Europe faces its most dangerous moment since the Second World War.
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The Ukraine war is shifting Europe’s balance of power from west to east
For the first time since 1989, central and eastern states are spearheading the continent’s response to a major crisis.
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Is Volodymyr Zelensky losing the support of the West?
The Ukrainian president's response to the Poland missile incident highlighted tensions with some Western leaders at a time when the…
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Poland missile explosion highlights risk of escalation in the war in Ukraine
Nato leaders have urged calm while the origin of the missile is investigated.
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What does the Poland missile explosion mean for Nato and Article 5?
What the incident means for the Nato alliance and Article 5.
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What will stop Vladimir Putin?
It is hard to find a route to a diplomatic resolution in Ukraine.
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Letter from Helsinki: Finland’s challenge to Russia
From nuclear power to Nato, the Nordic nation is on the cusp of momentous change.
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