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Dec 4, 2025
Europe has had a good run. It has been at the top of world affairs for half a millennium, since the great age of exploration connected all continents and first gave man a global...
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Nov 28, 2025
No one knows exactly how or when the Ukraine war will end. But all realistic scenarios are now unfavourable to Kyiv.
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Nov 20, 2025
At the end of 2021, when Russia tabled its draft documents on “legal and security guarantees from the United States and NATO”, demanding a halt to NATO...
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Nov 13, 2025
Recent footage of shabby Russian troops advancing in Pokrovsk on motorcycles, converted pickup trucks and other civilian vehicles has drawn comparisons with familiar scenes of...
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Nov 6, 2025
n the history of ideas around war and strategic confrontation, there are strokes of genius, grave mistakes, and everything in between. And then, in a category of its own, there...
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Oct 23, 2025
It is no secret that Europe is in a woeful state and continues to decline. It has long fallen from the peak of its economic success on the eve of the Great Recession. In those glory...
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Oct 9, 2025
At the heart of the West’s strategic approach to Russia – insofar as there is such a thing – lies a major fallacy. Western and especially European attention is...
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Oct 3, 2025
The latest round of Russian provocations, inaugurated by the large drone incursion into Poland on September 10, has sent the Europeans into a tizzy.
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Sep 25, 2025
Of all of President Trump’s social media posts, it is the one he fired off on Tuesday that future historians may pick as marking the biggest turning point of the Ukraine...
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Sep 18, 2025
The scenario that Brussels Signal warned about half a year ago in this very column seems to be coming to pass, with Pentagon leaks suggesting that an...
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Sep 10, 2025
Europe’s war-party has been hard at work online trying to stir up some kind of “Article 5 response” (i.e. War) over Russia’s reckless drone incursion into...
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Aug 14, 2025
With the historic US-Russia summit in Alaska fast approaching, European emotion over being left out of the negotiations is reaching fever pitch.
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Aug 7, 2025
One of the main ideological tensions on the so-called dissident Right – also known as the populist, nationalist or hard-right – concerns the role of the State. In fact,...
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Jul 17, 2025
With a trillion dollar budget now finally in sight for the United States military, with Europe, too, formally committing to hundreds of billions of new defence spending as...
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Jul 10, 2025
Last month’s NATO summit in The Hague gave off the disturbing impression of an alliance finally crossing the fine line between serious defence policy into the realm of...
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May 31, 2025
Recently, the United States has fully unveiled a new initiative under President Trump called Golden Dome – a missile defence project of unprecedented scope and...
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May 15, 2025
It may be too early to tell whether George Simion is a man of destiny, even if he does win the Romanian presidency this Sunday. He would have to go on and achieve great things...
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May 2, 2025
As the geometry of international relations alters under the shockwaves emanating from the White House, old assumptions about alliances begin to fray. Like a kind of geopolitical...
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Apr 24, 2025
It has become cliché to say that the advent of the second Trump administration has thrown the world into chaos.
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Apr 17, 2025
For all the vast amounts of analysis and the constant discussion dedicated to the Ukraine war across Western media and specialist centres, there is still considerable divergence of...
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Apr 10, 2025
President Trump’s tariff bombshell is more than simply a historic economic decision with geopolitical consequences on the side, as second-order effects....
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Apr 4, 2025
Donald Trump’s real foreign policy vision in his second term remains an intriguing puzzle. The aspiration to “peace through strength”, for example, is not very easy...
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Mar 27, 2025
The advent of Donald Trump’s second presidency has brought a considerable level of disruption to US foreign policy in a very short space of time.
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Mar 20, 2025
The road to peace in Ukraine is extremely difficult and perhaps also very long, despite president Trump’s initial hopes. Even agreeing an initial ceasefire in Ukraine...
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Mar 4, 2025
The emergency summit convened in London on Sunday by the UK prime minister, Sir Keir Starmer, was hailed as a major success – and in some ways it was.
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Feb 26, 2025
The most shocking political events took place on February 26 in Bucharest, where the front-runner in Romania’s presidential elections, Calin Georgescu, was seized by...
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Feb 20, 2025
This year will see the 80th anniversary of VE Day, i.e. Victory in Europe over Nazi Germany in May 1945.
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Jan 30, 2025
One of history’s most powerful drivers of change is the so-called law of unintended consequences. It may not be subject to scientific demonstration and theorising, but,...
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Jan 24, 2025
From the moment that America’s 47th president took his oath of office this Monday, it’s as if national conservatives around the world, together with the opponents of...
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Jan 16, 2025
With Donald Trump only days away from being sworn into what will likely be the most “imperial” of US presidencies since Franklin D. Roosevelt’s, the geopolitical...
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Jan 9, 2025
On 6 December 2024 Romania’s Constitutional Court (CCR) cancelled the country’s presidential election while runoff voting was already underway in the diaspora....