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COLUMN: Fico at Ankara without a mandate — NATO solidarity tested by one man
On June 27, 2026, Slovak Prime Minister Robert Fico publicly announced that Slovakia would attend the NATO summit in Ankara, on July 7–8, 2026,…
ANALYSIS: Oil embargo: why the Baltics are pressing a too-slow EU
Latvia, Estonia, and Lithuania share direct or very close borders with Russia and its militarized extension, Belarus. These three EU and NATO member nations…
COMMENTARY: Testing Article 5 — why a Baltic state could trigger everything
There are questions that diplomats avoid raising publicly, because asking them amounts to admitting a fragility one would prefer not to exhibit. Here is…
ANALYSIS: Latvia alerts — drones and missiles, the hybrid war has already begun
Latvia is not a country that cries wolf. It is a NATO and European Union member state, with a civil intelligence service — the…
DECODING: Russian provocation in the Baltics — the scenario NATO dreads
For months, this possibility had been circulating in the hallways of Western defense ministries — whispered, never officially stated, for fear of rattling markets…
REPORT: Gdansk Declaration — the Eastern Flank draws its own iron line
There is something deliberately symbolic about the choice of Gdansk. It is where the Second World War began, where Solidarność lit the fuse that…
ANALYSIS: Quadrupling shells — the West's industrial lag laid bare
When NATO's Deputy Supreme Allied Commander, General Christopher Stringer, publicly calls for a fourfold increase in 155mm shell production ahead of the Ankara summit…
COMMENTARY: Tens of billions in contracts — Ankara, where defense became industry
On June 25, 2026, during a conversation at the Atlantic Council, Mark Rutte, NATO Secretary General, announced that the Ankara summit on July 7…
OPINION: Is Trump abandoning us? The fear haunting NATO's eastern flank
In the diplomatic corridors of Tallinn, Riga, Warsaw, and Vilnius, there is a question everyone asks in private and no one wants to put…