Hans Petter Midttun

Not an anti-American position—a pro-European one. Trump wants out of NATO. Good. Let him go.

The gap between threat timeline and readiness timeline is not a planning error. It is a window.

The 18th Kyiv Security Forum named every threat to Europe. It would not say what to do about them — or about America.

Discussing alternatives to the Alliance has long been taboo. That changed in 2026. NATO is dead. Meet CALM.

The author argues that Ukraine adopting Russia´s playbook would be a strategic mistake. But the West is not helping Ukraine, and Kyiv might be tempted.

For the first time in history, a major war is being fought around 15 nuclear reactors. The West fears a Russian strike; the real danger is the disaster it has chosen not to see.

On June 4, 2023, Ukraine launched a counteroffensive. In military terms, the southern thrust was supposed to be the main effort, and its aim was to break Russia's “land bridge” connecting mainland Russia to occupied Crimea.

In 2023, armor failed to reach the Sea of Azov. In 2026, the lever isn’t ground – it’s the lower airspace over Russia’s only road to Crimea.

For the first time, Russia's losses outrun its recruits—four years of General Staff data explain why that still won't end the war.

The same pattern that cost Zaluzhnyi his job in 2024—success, popularity, a Syrskyi clash, a possible rival.