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Ukraine is officially on a declared path to NATO membership — NATO statements say Ukraine “will become a member” but Allies have not set a timeframe and no invitation has been issued; NATO removed the...
NATO’s accession and post‑accession requirements—most visibly the 2014 pledge to aim for 2% of GDP on defence and the related equipment and capability targets—have pressured small European states to r...
Sustaining military operations in Greenland’s Arctic environment collides with brutal weather, scant infrastructure, and high strategic stakes that force allies to trade mobility for vulnerability, an...
mission in would require a mix of political agreement with and Greenland, a NATO-level political mandate or direction to military commanders, and practical operational planning by NATO’s military auth...
has been steadily reworking the legal and practical contours of what it calls its “historic” or internal waters—from ’s Northern Sea Route to and parts of —deploying domestic laws, baseline redrawings...
Austerity — cutting spending, raising taxes, or both — can and often does reduce headline budget deficits, but its economic and social costs are large and context-dependent: in recessions or when mone...
The shadow fleet’s reliance on ageing, uninsured tankers sharply raises the probability of catastrophic oil spills, infrastructure damage, and chronic pollution because these hulls often lack modern s...
European institutions and security analysts say Russia is mounting a sustained “hybrid” campaign across Europe that combines drone strikes, sabotage, cyberattacks, disinformation and political interfe...
Soviet tanks and troops moved into Vilnius in January 1991, seizing the TV tower and other key sites and killing between 13–14 Lithuanian civilians in confrontations with largely unarmed protesters . ...
The supplied reports converge on three core claims: heavy fighting around the strategic town of Pokrovsk with contested control, Ukrainian long-range strikes degrading Russian oil refining capacity by...
The claim that “A US destroyer accidentally crushed Germany’s greatest weapon” is unsupported by the documents provided: none of the supplied analyses present evidence that a U.S. destroyer crushed an...