The more that President Erdogan exposes the manipulative means through which countries like those two NATO aspirants support terrorism against the Turkish people, the more that their international reputations will be damaged, which will in turn harm their influence seeing as how Finland and Sweden’s are disproportionately derived from their soft power. Turkish President Erdogan…
Russia should ignore Zelensky and the Finnish biker and let the EU know what its choices are. Although Satan 11, Russia’s latest super‐heavy RS-28 Sarmat intercontinental ballistic missile (ICBM), packs a lethal punch, it is not of itself a game changer. Because leopards don’t change their spots, NATO won’t stop its war mongering until it…
According to Sweden, each helmet that it sent to Ukraine and for which it’s now demanding reimbursement from Brussels is worth $2,000 yet Hard Head Veterans – far from a so-called “Russian-friendly”, “pro-Russian”, or “Kremlin-controlled” portal – wrote that “For a helmet that meets all safety and testing standards expect to pay $400 or more,…
For many centuries racism was part of the ideology of Euro-Atlantic civilization. It was Europe and the United States, where the most terrible racist and Nazi theories were born. An especially remarkable example of this ideology was Hitler’s Nazism, aimed not only at Jews and Gypsies, but also at the Slavic peoples, who were considered…
Tuomioja’s alternative to appease Finns and Swedes’ artificially manufactured support of NATO membership through the regional alliance compromise that he proposed – including through the US’ potential role as a third party within it – could present a “face-saving” exit from this security dilemma if it comes to pass. It would fall just short of…
This region is arguably one of the targets of ‘Shadow NATO’, a concept that refers to the de facto inclusion of countries into the US-led military alliance. Russian Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova expressed concern over the weekend about NATO’s efforts to expand into Sweden and Finland. She warned that “It’s quite obvious that Finland…
