The Nordstream pipeline attack by the NATO nations revealed through the reporting of Seymour Hersh has created a number of questions, especially in regards to which countries’ leaders knew about the attack and when they knew it. In an interview conducted by Dragan Vujicic, Professor Michel Chossudovsky explains that Germany knew well in advance of […]
Will NATO Expansion Bring “Peace and Prosperity” or Increased Tensions?
A Strategic Culture, the editors suggest that counter to NATO’s suggestion that expansion in Finland will increase peace and prosperity, increased tensions will create a self-fulfilling prophecy of war. They conclude: With a Nordic frontier of 1,300 kilometers, Finland’s accession to NATO effectively doubles the existing territory on which NATO can install military forces targeting […]
Is NATO About to Give Ukraine Fighter Jets?
Poland and Slovakia are pushing NATO allies to supply Ukraine with fighter jets, calling the withholding of jets “inhumane.” John Bacon and Kim Hjelmgaard report in USA Today: Slovakia on Thursday joined Poland in urging their allies to provide fighter jets to Kyiv as a wave of deadly “retaliation” strikes rocked Ukraine. “I think it’s […]
Russia Prepares New Offensive as Biden and NATO Escalate Weapon Deliveries
The war in Ukraine is heating up as the Russians prepare a new offensive against Ukraine, and NATO nations pledge ever more advanced weaponry to Ukraine to fight back. Michael Weiss and James Rushton report for Yahoo!News: “We are again being threatened by German Leopard tanks,” Russian President Vladimir Putin declared Thursday on a visit […]
Europe Should Protect Itself
Whether or not you agree with American intervention in the war between Ukraine and Russia, one thing that is certain today is that Russia is no superpower, and the Europeans should be able to handle this themselves without U.S. involvement. The European continent is comprised of many of the wealthiest nations on earth. Their refusal […]
NATO Appears to Avoid WWIII for Now
After missiles landed in the Polish village of Przewodów, alarm bells began going off across the northern hemisphere. A NATO country had just been hit with weapons of war, killing two innocent civilians and destroying property. The Ukrainians were quick to blame it on the Russians, and the Russians were quick to deny any involvement. […]
Estonia’s Outsized Commitment to Ukraine
In National Review, Jay Nordlinger details the outsized commitment to Ukraine’s war efforts against the Russian invasion by Estonia, a small Baltic country that used to be part of the Soviet Union. Debbie and I have visited Estonia and have long been fans of the country. Nordlinger writes: Here is an article about Estonia — […]
NATO Is Expensive, and Unnecessary
Why is America still paying the hefty price for maintaining NATO? Justin Logan, a senior fellow at the Cato Institute, examines why America continues to fund the “luxury good” of NATO when it is clearly unnecessary for national defense or even European defense. He writes (abridged): Given NATO’s origins as a military alliance aimed at […]
With a Nod from Turkey, Finland and Sweden Speed Toward NATO Membership
After brief and successful negotiations with Turkey, which previously had announced its opposition to Finland and Sweden joining NATO, the countries will be put on track to acceptance. Bloomberg reports: NATO moved one step closer to bolstering its eastern front with Russia after Turkey dropped its opposition to Swedish and Finnish bids to join the […]
NATO Was Created to Promote Security, Not Extend Charity
In The American Conservative, Doug Bandow reminds readers that “NATO was created to promote security, not extend charity.” He writes (abridged): Both Finland and Sweden are applying to join NATO. The Blob, as the foreign policy establishment has come to be known, is ecstatic. It cannot conceive of saying no to any alliance applicant, no […]