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Pete Hegseth’s dangerous warrior fantasy

Glorifying brute force, Hegseth risks pushing the US military further into recklessness and disregard for accountability

17.10.2025 2

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Squaring an impossible circle of peace and insecurity in Ukraine

Both sides still insist on guarantees that the other cannot accept, creating a deadlock in efforts to end the conflict

06.09.2025 4

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Why the Trump-Putin summit is unlikely to ‘ripen’ peace in Ukraine

With no path to compromise and Russia advancing, hopes for a breakthrough remain slim

16.08.2025 6

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The empty case for Canada’s 5% defence pledge

Why the world’s most powerful military organization needs to more than double its expenditure remains completely unexplained

07.07.2025 8

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The use and abuse of Russia’s ‘Great Patriotic War’

War mythology and the Kremlin’s great power ambitions continue to resonate with the wider Russian public. Why is this so?

15.05.2025 4

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Can Trump’s Ukraine peace plan succeed?

If the US president is serious about ending the war, he will need to engage seriously with the Russians’ conditions

22.03.2025 4

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Inching closer to an uneasy peace in Ukraine

There will be some hard diplomatic work ahead, but at least the long process of negotiation is finally about to start

19.02.2025 6

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The foreign interference report’s great anticlimax

False accusations and exaggerated claims appear to have done far more damage than the actual interference itself

04.02.2025 9

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Canada’s vassal status on full display with return of Trump

American threat to annex Greenland shows urgent need for Ottawa to chart an independent foreign policy

31.01.2025 8

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What is the West’s end-goal in Ukraine?

The policy of incremental escalation is looking increasingly unwise

29.11.2024 6

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Canada’s ‘New Red Scare’ is profoundly undemocratic

Increasingly, reasoned debate is being replaced by silencing and name-calling

04.11.2024 4

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Ukraine’s ‘victory plan’ faces sobering realities

The odds of Ukraine recapturing all its lost territories are vanishingly small

06.10.2024 8

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Ukraine rolls the dice on Kursk incursion

Politically, the military operation has the potential to be a game-changer

20.08.2024 5

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In Ukraine war’s shadow, cracks emerging in European consensus

Slovakia and Hungary’s energy spat with Ukraine reflects growing disquiet over mounting costs of a prolonged and unwinnable war

06.08.2024 2

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