Dmitry Medvedev and all the president’s hawks
Once known as a pro-Western liberal, the former Russian president has decided the best way to advance in Putin’s Russia…
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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.
Magdalena Andersson and Sanna Marin’s fight against far-right misogyny
The ease with which sexist attacks have undermined Sanna Marin and Magdalena Andersson should concern us all.
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A flurry of alarm over Kosovo reveals underlying tensions
A dispute over car number plates between Serbia and Kosovo has been defused but not resolved.
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Boris Johnson as head of Nato? He’d hate it
It’s a prestigious but often ignored role – and anyway, it’s based in Brussels.
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Nato’s “comeback” pivots on America’s troubled politics
Ambitious agreements made at the Madrid summit belie the danger of a second Trump term
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Erdoğan exposes Nato’s mirage of unity
The president of Turkey is leveraging Sweden and Finland’s desire to join Nato to further his interests abroad and at…
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Russia must lose this war
To ask the Ukrainians to stop fighting and negotiate is to invite a reinvasion as soon as Putin has rebuilt…
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A new world order
How global politics is being reshaped by the war in Ukraine, the rise of China, resource scarcity and climate change.
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Russia’s army is fighting Ukraine the way it was designed to
The Kremenchuk strike shows Moscow will indiscriminately bomb Ukrainian cities.
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Nato unity faces scrutiny as defences to protect the Baltic states ramp up
The war in Ukraine will dominate this week's summit in Madrid, including the admission of Finland and Sweden as members.
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The second coming of Nato
The alliance has been revived – but it can’t save the West.
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Nato must keep faith with Ukraine
Anders Fogh Rasmussen, the alliance’s former secretary general, on what the West got wrong in the 1990s and why democracy…
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Angela Merkel’s self-justification on Russia does not add up
History will judge harshly her doctrine of passivity towards Vladimir Putin.
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History’s long shadow falls over Russia and Ukraine
Wars have rules, and those who ignore them are apt to achieve surprise, simply by being stupid.
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Western fatigue over Ukraine war risks handing victory to Putin
Russia’s renewed advance is a threat to the entire democratic world.
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Striker, shopkeeper, pigeon: what Sweden and Nato should know about Erdoğan
The Turkish president has been moving the goalposts domestically for 20 years. The international community must catch up.
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Sweden’s Nato application marks historic shift away from neutrality
The development is another example of Vladimir Putin’s accidental strengthening of Nato.
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Can Boris Johnson’s pact with Sweden and Finland compensate for his problems at home?
The Prime Minister has signed mutual security with the two countries due imminently to join Nato – but the economic…
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Putin’s war could be the undoing of Nicola Sturgeon
As Nato fortifies to counter the Russian threat, the case against Trident – and for Scottish independence – is looking…
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Nato and its allies are finally supplying the weapons Kyiv needs
In committing itself to arming Ukraine on an ongoing basis, the West has woken up to the peril Europe faces.
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