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Ahead of the 2025 NATO Summit, hosts Lokke Moerel and Alex van der Wolk speak with top experts and policymakers about hybrid threats, strategic defense, and the shifting digital battlefield....more
Background - The war in Ukraine has taken a new diplomatic turn in recent weeks. Having historically aligned with the European Union (EU) and United Kingdom (UK) on its condemnation of Russia’s war in Ukraine, and the need...more
As I predicted might happen in a previous article, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy stopped Russia from exporting oil and natural gas pumped in Russia through pipelines traversing Ukraine to Austria, Hungary and other...more
The US government could soon allow private US military contractors to operate in Ukraine to maintain and service weapons supplied by the United States (the “MC Policy”), according to a recent CNN news report. This type of...more
Statesmen hesitate to get involved in wars for numerous reasons. One key reason is that, once they are started, wars can, and often do, take on lives of their own. Indeed, at times, they produce the exact opposite result of...more
The best statesmen understand what less worldly and less experienced people often overlook: Wars are mainly political and economic endeavors, and they involve the use of brute force to obtain political and/or economic...more
This week, the Biden Administration imposed extensive new export controls and economic sanctions against the Russian Federation in response to its declaration of two independent states in Eastern Ukraine and subsequent...more
The United States, along with the European Union, the United Kingdom, and other allies, has announced a new round of significantly tougher sanctions and export controls in response to the expanding Russian military invasion...more
In response to Russia’s increasingly aggressive troop build-up on the Ukrainian border and the lack of progress of negotiations between Russia and the United States, Democrats and Republicans in Congress appear united in...more