Arctic brinkmanship over Greenland, NATO in chaos, and Putin’s calculated silence. In the latest episode of Russia Decoded, hosts Andy Kuchins and Chris Monday unpack how Russian state media frames the fragmenting West.

January 2026 may well be remembered as the moment the post-1945 international order finally began to splinter. In a dizzying sequence of events spanning from the frozen fjords of Greenland to the protest-choked streets of Iran, the world has entered a stress test of its most basic security assumptions. At the center of this tectonic shift is an unprecedented crisis within NATO, sparked by a territorial dispute that few saw coming.

President Donald Trump’s decision to link the US acquisition of Greenland to punitive tariffs against NATO allies has shattered the long-standing norm of unconditional collective defense. The European response,........

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