WAR & PEACEDiplomats trade smiles like currency as NATO Secretary General Mark Rutte extended a hand of assurance to the Finnish President Alexander Stubb on November 17, 2025.

WAR & PEACEArmstrong predicts that the EU will face dissolution by 2030 due to unconsolidated debt, and that leaders such as Ursula von der Leyen see a war with Russia as a distraction from collapsing pensions and banks in the EU.

WAR & PEACEThe US’ intensified proxy war of attrition against Russia can be a part of Trump’s three-phased strategy that’s meant to bankrupt the Kremlin and then stir unrest at home.

WAR & PEACEBoth Europe andd Russia are engaged in hybrid tactics, such as cyberattacks, information campaigns, and physical sabotage.

WAR & PEACEFormer German Chancellor Angela Merkel claimed that opposition from Poland and the Baltic states was behind the failed EU-Russia Peace talks, preventing the EU from engaging in direct talks with Putin in 2021, hindering efforts to avert a war in Ukraine.

WAR & PEACEDirect Western intervention in the conflict is now arguably becoming a fait accompli; it’s just a question of how Russia will respond and whether the US will then be drawn into mission creep.