The second coming of Nato
The alliance has been revived – but it can’t save 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.
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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Support for Nato membership is rising across Europe
Heightened security concerns have pushed politicians in non-Nato countries to consider moving away from their neutrality.
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Sweden’s decision to join Nato isn’t just about security
Will Sweden join Nato? The country looks set to join Finland in applying for membership, but the debate in Stockholm…
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The new Iron Curtain
Russia’s war in Ukraine poses a grave threat to Nato’s eastern states. As Britain doubles its military presence in Estonia,…
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United on Ukraine, Nato powers now see the world from Warsaw’s point of view
Vladimir Putin’s war is transforming an array of old arguments among the Western allies – over Russia and Turkey, arms…
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As Finland and Sweden consider Nato membership, Austria clings to neutrality
In the 1970s Austria used its neutrality to be a conduit between East and West, but there’s little sign of…
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Belarusian forces “highly likely” to join Russian attack, says Ukraine
The war could be about to enter its most dangerous phase as conflict inches closer to Nato member states.
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The West must begin the biggest soft-power operation in history
Nato’s emergency summit in Brussels is the chance for a revolution in geopolitical vision.
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The West’s previous failures may embolden Russia to use chemical weapons in Ukraine
The UK and US fear Moscow is preparing to violate a “red line”, just as its Syrian ally did last…
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Former Russian foreign minister: “It is mind-boggling what Putin is doing in Ukraine”
Andrei Kozyrev explains Vladimir Putin’s cruel rationality and the calculus of the war in Ukraine.
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By repudiating Stop the War, Keir Starmer has reclaimed Labour’s history
It was Clement Attlee’s government that took the UK into Nato, and Starmer has returned his party to the diplomatic…
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