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DECODING: Five percent of GDP — the figure redefining Western defense
Ten years ago, discussions about defense spending within NATO revolved around a target that the majority of members were not meeting: 2% of GDP.…
PROFILE: Mark Rutte, the Man of Ankara: Portrait of the Secretary Who Must Keep Trump in the Alliance
Mark Rutte. The name does not stir patriotic emotions the way Churchill's or de Gaulle's does. Nor does it provoke the emotional devotion of…
ANALYSIS: Belarus, Armed Vassal: How Lukashenko Became Russia's Launchpad Against NATO
Alexander Lukashenko's Belarus is no longer a neutral state wedged between Russia and the European Union. It is a Russian military operations base disguised…
DECODING: The Ankara Gamble: Turning The Hague's Promises into Real Tanks, Shells and Missiles
On July 7 and 8, 2026, the leaders of NATO member states will gather at the presidential Beştepe Palace in Ankara, Turkey. This summit…
EDITORIAL: If Putin Tests Article 5: Why a Baltic State Could Become the Spark for Everything
There are questions that diplomats carefully avoid voicing, not because they are absurd, but precisely because they are too serious to formulate without consequences.…
COMMENTARY: Latvia Sounds the Alarm: Drones and Missiles, Russia's Hybrid War Is Already at Our Door
There are truths that only those who live the threat directly have the courage to speak. Latvia, a country of 1.8 million people on…
INVESTIGATION: Kaliningrad, Forward Base: What Russia's Baltic Strike Rehearsals Reveal
On June 21, 2026, NATO surveillance radars once again registered the familiar and unsettling activity coming out of Kaliningrad's skies. Su-24M tactical bombers of…
ANALYSIS: Baltic Provocation: The Scenario Every NATO Commander Dreads This Summer
There are signals that diplomats and military officers send through official communiqués, carefully weighed statements, and calculated announcements. And then there are different signals…
COMMENTARY: Tens of billions in contracts: Ankara, or the war transformed into an industrial fair
There is something dissonant about the imagery that surrounds a NATO summit in wartime. The press releases about "tens of billions in defense contracts."…