The meeting of the defence ministers of the Pentagon’s Ukraine Defence Contact Group in the “Ramstein” format in Brussels on January 14 failed to make any major announcement on the supply of offensive weapons to Kiev. But the US President Joe Biden is expected in Poland early next week and may have another face-to-face meeting…
NATO’s spat over Turkish opposition to Swedish and Finnish membership is about more than expanding the North Atlantic military alliance. It’s as much about Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan’s immediate political goals as Turkey’s positioning itself in a new 21st-century world order. On its surface, the spat is about Turkish efforts to hinder support for…
Even though the Polish President suggested that some of Russia’s $300 billion in stolen foreign assets be redirected towards Ukraine’s reconstruction, it seems as though those who seized these funds aren’t interested in sharing all that much otherwise the Polish Prime Minister wouldn’t have just demanded that Norway partially foot the bill. Polish Prime Minister…
The cold reality is now setting in that everyone was taking advantage of the Polish leadership’s imperial nostalgia to manipulate it into doing their bidding in Ukraine. Poland keeps racking up strategic losses in the days after merging into a de facto confederation with Ukraine. First, Zelensky told the attendees at this week’s Davos Summit…
Norwegian Russia expert Glenn Diesen was recently victimized by a smear campaign driven by those who claim that his appearances on RT sharing non-mainstream views about Russia-EU relations is tantamount to so-called “Russian propaganda”, which curiously coincides with Oslo agreeing to host American B-1 bombers for the first time in what CNN described as “a…
In early March, an estimated 7,500 American combat troops will travel to Norway to join thousands of soldiers from other NATO countries in a massive mock battle with imagined invading forces from Russia. In this futuristic simulated engagement — it goes by the name of Exercise Cold Response 2020 — allied forces will “conduct multinational…
