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13 posts tagged nato.
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Frederiksen's third term and Europe's Greenland problem
Denmark's centre-left coalition under Mette Frederiksen returns for a third consecutive term, but the real story is how a small Nordic democracy has been forced to navigate American territorial ambitions and its own strategic relevance.
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Russia's drone lands on NATO soil in Romania
A Russian drone crashing into a Romanian apartment block forces the alliance to confront whether its red lines mean anything when Moscow keeps testing them.
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Canada buys Swedish jets, not American ones
Mark Carney's decision to purchase Saab's GlobalEye surveillance aircraft instead of US alternatives signals a durable strategic realignment away from Washington that goes well beyond tariff squabbles.
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Russia's blackmail and Europe's reckoning
Moscow's systematic strikes on Kyiv and warnings to evacuate foreign nationals are not military announcements but political tests — and Europe's summoning of ambassadors is a necessary but insufficient response.
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Russia's Kyiv ultimatum and the logic of escalation
Moscow's demand that foreigners leave Kyiv before 'systematic strikes' is less a military announcement than a psychological warfare campaign—but the West keeps rewarding it.
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Russia's Oreshnik and the grammar of escalation
The third Oreshnik hypersonic strike on Kyiv, paired with GPS jamming of a British defence secretary's aircraft, marks a deliberate shift in Russia's escalatory vocabulary that the West has not yet found an answer to.
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Turkey's CHP crackdown and Erdogan's endgame
The storming of CHP headquarters by riot police is not a routine crackdown but a structural acceleration of Turkey's slide toward one-party rule, with consequences for NATO's eastern flank.
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Russia's near-miss and the grammar of escalation
A Russian jet flying within metres of a British spy plane is not an accident — it is a message, and the West's reluctance to send one back is becoming a habit.
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NATO shoots down a drone it didn't ask for
A Romanian F-16 destroying a redirected Ukrainian drone over Estonia crystallises how Russian electronic warfare is turning Allied airspace into a new front of the conflict — without a shot being fired at NATO directly.
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America tears up the oldest alliance it has
The US suspension of defence cooperation with Canada ends a partnership built in 1940 and signals that even the most durable alliances are now bargaining chips.
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Kyiv's deadliest strike demands a reckoning
Russia's apartment building massacre in Kyiv — 24 dead — tests whether Western deterrence doctrine has any credibility left after four years of managed escalation.
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Russia's drone barrage breaks the ceasefire illusion
Russia's 800-drone overnight assault on Ukraine after a symbolic ceasefire expiry reveals that Putin's peace gestures are tactical instruments, not strategic intentions.
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Five thousand troops and a transatlantic drift
The partial US withdrawal from Germany is less a rupture than an acceleration of a long-signalled European burden-shift — and Europe is still not ready.