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Europe’s security turn remains strikingly ad hoc, despite its massive increase in defence spending.
NATO members have been divided before. But the war in Iran could prove particularly troublesome for an alliance founded at the beginning of the Cold War.
China and Russia view the latest Washington intervention in the Middle East as a further decline of the United States’ global power.
As Israel continues to pound Lebanon, the chances of a Middle East ceasefire lasting 14 days seem remote.
The US president has been bitterly criticising the alliance in recent weeks over its reluctance to join the war in Iran.
Donald Trump and his senior advisers have threatened to leave Nato over alliance members’ reluctance to join the war in Iran.
In Donald Trump’s second term he and his advisers have repeatedly questioned US involvement in translatlantic security.
The Trump administration is once again threatening to withdraw the US from Nato, citing the reluctance of the alliance to join the Iran war.
A Russian state whose leadership denies the existence of a separate Ukrainian identity will not be satisfied with mere territorial concessions in any peace efforts.
The government must weigh complex moral, legal and political questions before committing to any military involvement in defending the Strait of Hormuz.
As US bombing operations in Afghanistan, Iraq and Libya have shown, destruction is not the same as political success.
Direct talks between Russia, Ukraine and the US are scheduled for March.
With each year of the Ukraine-Russia war, Moscow has upped its violations of neighboring states’ airspace – testing NATO’s resolve.
The secretary of state’s speech was less divisive than J.D. Vance’s a year earlier, but it did not mark any significant change in US foreign policy under Trump.
Will the UK’s new Cyber Action Plan staunch the flow of attacks? Other countries are leading the way in cyber-defence strategies.
The Aztec empire succumbed to its own imperial arrogance, alienating neighbours who ultimately helped bring about its downfall.
European publics and more government leaders are questioning the value of the alliance with the United States under Trump. But a different path remains elusive.
The US may be stepping back from some engagements on the world stage. That’s not necessarily bad news for the rest of the world, an analyst argues.
Donald Trump seems intent on destroying many of the tenets of traditional US foreign policy.
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