The Strategic Logic of Shielding Ukraine’s Skies
By Steven Blatter11/06/2026 As Europe navigates the summer of 2026, the war of attrition in Ukraine has reached a critical…
Blog
The NATO Ankara Summit: “NATO 3.0” in Practice
By Jonathan Burchell10/06/2026 Source Introduction When NATO was founded, its first secretary general, Lord Ismay, famously remarked that the alliance existed “to keep…
Moscow Tells Baltics NATO Will Not Come To Their Rescue – Analysis
By Paul Goble|10/06/2026 Source Whether Russian President Vladimir Putin will launch an attack on the Baltic countries, as many now fear…
The Collapse of Russia’s Security Myth in Armenia
By Steven Blatter 10/06/2026 For decades, the presence of Russian troops on Armenian soil was viewed as a cast-iron guarantee…
Moscow’s stranglehold on Minsk’s throat
By James Johnson 28/05/2026 As Russia’s unprovoked, full-scale war against Ukraine enters its fifth, gruelling year, the Kremlin appears to…
The end: not close, but clear
By Vladislav Inozemtsev13/05/2026 The May 9, 2026, parade in Moscow has gone down in history: remembered only for its brevity,…
The “Peace” Trap: Unmasking the Kremlin’s Trojan Horse in Europe
By James Johnson30/04/2026 In an era of shifting geopolitics, the term “pacifism” is being hijacked. The latest protagonist in this…
The Budapest Gambit: An Anatomy of Russia’s Covert Electoral Intervention in Hungary
By Ishtwan Kamel05/04/2026 The Hungarian parliamentary elections scheduled for April 2026 are widely regarded as the most significant challenge to…
Massive Escalation on 24 March: Strategic Exhaustion, Cultural Ethnocide, and the Challenge to European Security
By James Johnson25/03/2026 At dawn on 24 March 2026, Ukraine’s airspace became the stage for the most extensive and technically…
Orbán’s “Secret Medicine”: The Chasm Between Propaganda and the Reality of Hungarian Healthcare
By Ishtwan Kamel21/03/2026 For years, Viktor Orbán has positioned himself as the ultimate “defender of Hungarian families”, shielding them from…