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Top NATO general praises Ukraine’s ‘great’ war strategy

Top NATO general praises Ukraine’s ‘great’ war strategy

Kyiv is doing a good job of balancing recruitment, training and procurement, Gen. Christopher Cavoli said.

July 19, 2024 4:46 pm CET
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Security and defense will have to rest more on Europe — and less on the US
Europe eyes Sweden’s conscription model to solve troop shortage
Israel, Turkey trade blows in row over NATO involvement in Gaza
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Poland mulls shooting down Russian missiles over Ukraine

Warsaw is considering intervening after strikes have devastated the power grid and destroyed Kyiv’s largest children’s hospital.

July 13, 2024 10:48 am CET

‘OMFG’: Biden’s mistakes push shocked US allies toward Trump 

Western diplomats are privately horrified by the President’s public gaffes and are working to build links with the Trump team ahead of November’s election.

July 12, 2024 8:32 pm CET

Scholz joins shaky chorus of world leaders sticking with Biden

Heads of state have been peppered with questions at this week’s NATO summit in Washington about Biden’s age and mental acuity.

July 12, 2024 4:43 am CET

Starmer at NATO summit: Departing general issues sobering advice

Fresh from his landslide victory, Britain’s new Prime Minister, Keir Starmer, has flown to Washington to join other leaders of NATO countries as they meet for the …

July 11, 2024 6:00 am CET

Divided, reshuffled and politically bruised: Europe’s leaders head to the NATO summit

Political turmoil on the Continent is reshuffling power players going to the NATO gathering.

July 9, 2024 2:26 pm CET

Ukraine builds a NATO-lite while it waits for the real thing

Non-binding pacts are “second-best” to belonging to the alliance, but they’re the best Kyiv can get for now.

July 9, 2024 11:00 am CET

Turkey carves its own course in NATO

Ankara is friends with Russia, supplies weapons to Ukraine, and is wary of the EU playing a greater role in defense.

July 8, 2024 7:16 pm CET

China and Belarus hold joint drills near Polish border ahead of NATO summit

Two key Russia allies claim to be responding to the “aggressive foreign policy” of Western countries.

July 8, 2024 6:17 pm CET

NATO’s in denial about deterrence by denial

Taking the necessary steps to fully operationalize deterrence by denial is critical — especially before a possible change in America’s relationship with NATO.

July 8, 2024 4:00 am CET

NATO is losing patience with one of its own members — and it’s not who you think

This week’s summit in Washington will get uncomfortable for Canada as allies press for more cash commitments.

July 7, 2024 10:18 pm CET

NATO’s Stoltenberg rules out Ukraine land-for-peace deal

While Trump advisers mull pushing Ukraine to give up land for peace, the alliance chief pointed at Russia’s refusal to abide by previous cease-fire pledges.

July 5, 2024 4:31 pm CET
From Across the Pond

How Trump Republicans really feel about NATO

Like much the state of American politics itself, support for the alliance — though solid overall — is becoming increasingly polarized.

July 5, 2024 4:00 am CET
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Ukraine envoy to NATO: Firm up membership offer

“We are not asking for something extraordinary,” Ambassador Nataliia Galibarenko tells POLITICO.

July 4, 2024 4:26 pm CET

Relearning lessons from the past: NATO and economic deterrence

There’s a growing need for the West to seamlessly integrate military deterrence with economic warfare once more.

July 3, 2024 4:01 am CET

Viktor Orbán arrives in Ukraine to meet Zelenskyy

It’s the first visit by the Hungarian PM to the war-struck country since Russia invaded in February 2022.

July 2, 2024 9:18 am CET
Unpacked

Farage let the cat out of the bag — NATO expansion was just an excuse for Putin

Putin was going to do whatever he wanted regardless of what NATO and the EU did or didn’t do — he would have just come up with another excuse to make war, another great lie.

June 28, 2024 4:00 am CET

Never say never: Sanna Marin’s warning to Europe on tech, populism and her career ambitions

The recent shift to the right in the European Parliament election doesn’t bode well for the continent’s dwindling band of social democratic leaders, one of the most …

June 27, 2024 6:01 am CET

Sorry Farage, Putin is provoked by Ukrainian independence — not NATO

By amplifying Putin’s bogus claims of NATO’s responsibility for today’s war, Western politicians like Trump and Farage risk legitimizing Russian imperialism.

June 26, 2024 4:02 am CET

Final blow to Chinese ‘neutrality’ on Ukraine war

With the dismissal of the Swiss peace conference, Beijing’s commitment to Russia has reached new heights.

June 19, 2024 4:05 am CET

Hungary and Slovakia back Dutch PM Rutte as NATO’s next chief

Romania is the final holdout in backing Rutte as the new secretary-general.

June 18, 2024 4:00 pm CET
Unpacked

For King and country? Europe’s young may not be willing to fight

“The price of unchecked tyranny is the blood of the young and the brave,” Biden said at the Day-Day commemoration. But checking tyranny comes at a price — and one the West’s young don’t seem ready to pay.

June 11, 2024 4:00 am CET
Germany interpreted

Starmer will try to prove Britain can be a reliable EU friend — and Germany will be key

After the U.K. election, cooperation will be deliberately methodical, testing the waters along the way.

June 6, 2024 4:01 am CET

France flexes navy muscles to show Putin (and US) its war power

Since the outbreak of war in Ukraine, Paris has been signaling a willingness to be more involved in NATO.

May 30, 2024 6:33 pm CET

Scholz, Macron und die Debatte um Verteidigung auf russischem Boden

Der Kanzler hingegen versucht weiter im Vagen zu bleiben. Wir analysieren die Worte des Kanzlers und die neuerlichen Diskussionen in Deutschland, der EU und der NATO.  Im …

May 30, 2024 6:00 am CET
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