Category: NATO
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Is US intelligence being undone by the isolationists in US Congress.
The rise of intelligence agencies activities is not much of a surprise, but the movement into the realm of technology is a spate that worries those who remember Edward Snowdon and Julian Assange’s warnings of mission creep. That William Burns, the head of the Central Intelligence Agency is writing in this weeks Foreign Affairs, tells…
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Putin is likely to retain power, “but”
There is a joke about time zones that ends with Putin complaining that he had commiserated with Prigozhin’s family before the plane had taken off. It is a great joke, which was told by the Prime Minister of Albania. But the element of truth is hard to miss, it is widely recognised that Prigozhin was…
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NATO and the Ukrainian question.
It is highly unlikely that Ukraine will get NATO membership at the moment, but there is a model for Ukrainian membership and that is the German model. Germany was divided after the second World War and got NATO membership, could the same argument be made for Ukrainian membership of NATO?…. However, the German model took…
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