The end of communism saw Poland fatefully decide to join NATO, which was the bloc’s most meaningful eastward expansion given Poland’s centuries-long rivalry with Russia and its status as the most populous Warsaw Pact member outside the former USSR,...
Finnish President Alexander Stubb and Norwegian Prime Minister Jonas Gahr Store called Putin on Tuesday to discuss the upcoming resumption of trilateral Russian-Ukrainian-US talks in Abu Dhabi next month. They’re the first mainstream members of European NATO (E-NATO), which...
Sweden’s announcement in late September that it’ll deploy Gripen jets to Poland for the second time in as many years was followed by a related announcement shortly thereafter in early October that a Patriot air defense system will complement...
Putin predicted at the Valdai Club’s annual summit in early October that “they will fall apart without any help from us” in response to a question about whether Russia “should just go ahead and break up, so it...
SpaceX founder Elon Musk confirmed that Ukraine violated the terms of service for using Starlink, which is the civilian analogue of the military-run Starshield, by using it in lethal offensive drone attacks. Zelensky candidly disclosed in mid-October that “We...
Leading Polish conservative newspaper Rzeczpospolita published the results of a poll in early October about Poles’ opinion toward the scenario of President Karol Nawrocki meeting Putin on the sidelines of December’s G20 Summit in Miami. Poland was invited by...
Pakistani media reported that Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif will visit Russia in late November or early December after his planned trip in late February was postponed due to the Third Gulf War. The agenda is expected to include regional...
Professor of International Politics at Jawaharlal Nehru University Rajesh Rajagopalan scandalously opined in a piece last month that “India’s real objective should be to make BRICS ineffective”. In his assessment, “If it becomes an effective group at all, it...
Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov told his country’s newest batch of diplomats in late October that their government is still interested in cooperating with the US despite all that’s happened since 2022. In his words, “We’ll see what they...
The Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) was back in the news this month after a former UFC fighter-turned-podcaster was wounded in its eastern region while fighting there as part of Blackwater founder Erik Prince’s Vectus Global in support...
