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Europe Needs A New Strategy Too
The new US National Security Strategy helps - or forces - European leaders to let go of the consuming transatlantic crisis management efforts and to…
 • Minna Ålander
The Rise and Fall of the Dim-Wit Plan
The latest iteration of a "secret US-Russia peace plan for Ukraine" would have been funny, if it wasn't so cruel to Ukraine.
 • Minna Ålander
Should Finland and Sweden reunite?
The ever-deteriorating state of world affairs has prompted the Nordic countries to set aside their sibling rivalry and start thinking about a reunion.
 • Minna Ålander
Contours of European Strategic Autonomy
Europe is moving on without the US, and the US does not seem to like it after all.
 • Minna Ålander
Nordic Solidarity on the Northen Flank
With persisting uncertainty about future US role and commitment to NATO, Europeans are ramping up their presence in the northern part of the Alliance.
 • Minna Ålander
The Beginning of an Era of "world wars"
80 years after the end of World War II, we are perhaps not closer to a World War III but rather entering an era of world wars.
 • Minna Ålander
China Can Have It All
China is currently leading the race for the biggest winner of America's self-sabotage shenanigans.
 • Minna Ålander
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