It’s odd to find that it wasn’t a shock to hear Donald Trump speak glowingly of Russian President Vladimir Putin, to hear Trump disown his own intelligence agencies’ work to reveal in detail Russian military …
After a week of hosting US President Donald Trump for a variety of visits and summits, Europe’s leaders may be excused for paraphrasing Charles Dickens’s summary of another tumultuous time in their continent’s history: ‘It …
Looking past the drama that surrounds any Donald Trump visit, it appears that NATO has emerged from its two-day summit in Brussels as strong as ever. The 28 allies, including the US, agreed on a …
The world Fasten your seatbelts, dear readers, and get ready for a bumpy ride through transatlantic and European security. The NATO summit in Brussels is over already, and we haven’t seen a Trump tweet backpedalling …
A fractious NATO summit—including, apparently, an implied threat by President Donald Trump to leave the alliance—shows it’s not too early to be thinking about a post-alliance future. So in this post, I intend to unpack …




