Perspectives from Eastern Europe – Many Want to See a Russian Defeat

Perspectives from Eastern Europe – Many Want to See a Russian Defeat

Back in the 1970s I was part of the Field Trade Craft course for new Case Officers at the Central Intelligence Agency’s principal training facility, located at Camp Peary, near Williamsburg, Virginia. Peary was and still is referred to by one and all as “the Farm,” though it engaged in animal husbandry only in the…

Eastern Europe in Political and Military Optics (II)

Eastern Europe in Political and Military Optics (II)

As early as 2023, Poland is has contracted to buy 50 Javelin LWCLU launchers, as well as about 500 FGM-148F Javelin missiles, as well as an additional training and logistics package. Other U.S. partners are also receiving weapons. Poland also bought K2 tanks and K9A1 howitzers from South Korea. According to the contract signed in July 2022,…

Eastern Europe in Political and Military Optics (I)

Eastern Europe in Political and Military Optics (I)

In recent years, the Eastern European countries that have become members of NATO have shown excessive zeal in promoting Atlanticism, becoming more pro-American than the old guard from Western Europe. The logic can be explained not only by the desire to please the patron from Washington, but also by Halford Mackinder’s famous geopolitical imperative –…

Greater Romania Emerges From Stalingrad’s Ashes

Greater Romania Emerges From Stalingrad’s Ashes

Dreams of Greater Romania, of România Mare are for idlers, not for the peoples trying to live their lives in peace by the waters of the Don, the Dniester and the Danube As NATO’s Ukrainian campaign rumbles on, the specter of Greater Romania, România Mare, once more haunts Transylvania, Bukovina, Bessarabia, Banat, Crișana, Maramureș and,…

Great Game 2.0: The Defunct British Empire “Strikes Back” in Ukraine and Eastern Europe

Great Game 2.0: The Defunct British Empire “Strikes Back” in Ukraine and Eastern Europe

Geopolitics is a game on a fixed chessboard in which not only the main players change, but also colours of the pieces, and the rules themselves are fluid.  Although basic mechanisms remain unchanged, and some scenarios come back years or even centuries later to remind us that Game of Thrones is invariably played in front…