EU politics
Politico – Italy’s grand plan to meet NATO target: A €13.5B bridge to Sicily
Europe is a laughing stock. Read the article HERE.
NATO
Geopolitics
Binoy Kampmark – The Five Percenters: NATO’s Promise of War
The agreement at The Hague for all NATO countries to spend at least 5% of GDP on defence was an arms manufacturers’ dream. Binoy Kampmark was a Commonwealth Scholar at Selwyn College, Cambridge. He lectures at […]
Geopolitics
Politico – NATO allies agree to 5 percent defense spending goal
Amazingly, only Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez has seen sense and got an opt-out to NATO’s new demand on countries to spend 5% of their GDP on defence. All the rest are now lashed to […]
EU politics
Biljana Vankovska – Macedonia’s Foreign Policy Between Two Suns
For countries on the periphery of Europe which have deferentially followed Western leadership, the new divide within the NATO-bloc is a confusing moment. Biljana Vankovska is a professor of peace studies and head of Global […]
Geopolitics
No Cold War briefing – Europe’s 2025 Challenge: Halting NATO’s Failing Attempt to Expand into Ukraine
‘No Cold War’ is a global alliance opposing a new cold war between the West and Russia/China. In these briefing, they give their analysis of the latest situation in relation to the Ukraine war and […]
Geopolitics
Harry Blain – 30 years later: The true story of the US role in the Bosnian ‘peace’
Myth surrounds almost all American foreign interventions, and the role of NATO in ending the Bosnian War in 1995 is no different. Harry Blain is an Assistant Professor of Political Science at California State University, […]
EU politics
Politico – US envoy to NATO questions EU’s ‘buy local’ strategy on weapons
Some EU countries haven’t got the message yet that the US military industrial complex expects bigger European Defence spending to mean bigger orders for American weapons. Read the article HERE.
Geopolitics
John Mearsheimer – Who caused the Ukraine war?
A question that won’t go away. Posted on John Mearsheimer’s Substack. Read the article HERE.
Geopolitics
Vijay Prashad – NATO Accelerates Its Conflict With China
Russia may be NATO’s most direct enemy at the moment, but the big picture is all about trying to contain China’s rise. Vijay Prashad’s most recent book (with Noam Chomsky) is The Withdrawal: Iraq, Libya, […]
Geopolitics
Chris Wright – NATO’s Endgame Appears to Be Nuclear War
It is downright puzzling that millions of people aren’t protesting in the streets every day to deescalate the crisis between Russia and the West and pull civilisation back from the brink. Chris Wright has a […]