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Baltic states get ready for Russian false-flag attack on Nato

As Baltic leaders sound the alarm over a possible Russian false-flag drone strike, they fear the real damage could come from the political chaos and hesitation it triggers among Nato allies in the cru

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European Nationalist Revolts in 1905

This week's edition of Culture.pl contains an article by Zachary Mazur written in 2022 that heralds his new book entitled To Kill a Spy: Everyday Nationalism and Political Violence in Fin-de-Siecle Eu

euobserver.com·há 25 dias

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As warnings of possible provocations from Moscow pile up, a system of ditches, trenches and bunkers is beginning to take shape along the 950-km border that the Baltic states share with Russia.

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NATO's Bucharest Summit, 2008

From The Russo-Ukraine War: The Return of History, by Serhii Plokhy (W. W. Norton, 2023), Kindle pp. 87-89:As NATO leaders arrived for the Bucharest summit on April 2, 2008, Russia’s vocal protests ag

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How air-defence failures brought down Latvia’s government — and opened the door to Russia to exploit chaos

Internal conflicts in the Latvian coalition government came to a boil, after Ukrainian drones crashed into the country without interception. The formation of a new government is now in the hands of th

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Slovakia’s schizophrenia: defending Nato’s eastern flank, but PM courts the country threatening it

Slovak defence minister Robert Kaliňák announced Bratislava wants to join the Baltic Air Policing mission with its new F-16 fighter jets — mixing up the confusing cocktail of Robert Fico's government

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With Nato’s car-crash Ankara summit looming, the West needs a new survival strategy

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71 years without a military strategy, Germany just wrote one

Responsibility for Europe reads differently from Bratislava than from Brussels. The new German defence strategy is worth reading carefully, particularly from the capitals whose security still depends

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Baltic states get ready for Russian false-flag attack on Nato

European Nationalist Revolts in 1905

Dragon’s teeth and ditches: inside the Baltics’ new 950km defence barrier against Russia

NATO's Bucharest Summit, 2008

How air-defence failures brought down Latvia’s government — and opened the door to Russia to exploit chaos

Slovakia&#8217;s schizophrenia: defending Nato&#8217;s eastern flank, but PM courts the country threatening it

With Nato’s car-crash Ankara summit looming, the West needs a new survival strategy

71 years without a military strategy, Germany just wrote one

Slovakia’s schizophrenia: defending Nato’s eastern flank, but PM courts the country threatening it