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Europe should heed the Kremlin’s nuclear threat over Kaliningrad. Moscow has a long record of doing what it threatened and denying what it did.

As Arctic ice retreats, nations race to build, operate and deploy icebreakers. Capability gaps could determine who controls the region.

Less than a decade after seizing power, President Emmerson Mnangagwa has extended his rule to 2030 while regional leaders look away.

Tehran’s economy is battered, yet parallel trade networks prevent its complete economic isolation.

The elections in Brazil will determine whether Washington’s new strategy for the Western hemisphere will hold.

Baltic states are on edge as Moscow’s hybrid warfare poses a growing threat that is already testing NATO’s resolve.

Jihadist groups are moving south from the Sahel, exploiting weak governance, local grievances and illicit economies.

Nine months after the Southern Transitional Council’s dissolution, the organization retains significant political influence in southern Yemen.

The World Health Organization faces a deepening crisis of funding, authority and relevance as alternatives emerge for disease surveillance and emergency response.

Europe has remarkable space capabilities, but fragmented authority limits its strategic power and autonomy.

Geography has always enabled weaker actors to constrain stronger ones, and cislunar space will be no exception.

The Holy See has no army, but it has reach, longevity and access that no state can match.

New Delhi sees BRICS+ as a flexible platform for advancing strategic autonomy and global leadership, but rivalry with China and internal divisions limit the group’s cohesion.

The Iran conflict has laid bare Japan’s reliance on Middle Eastern oil, pushing Tokyo toward U.S.-aligned diversification.

The offshore dollar system sits at the heart of global finance, yet its scale and vulnerabilities remain largely opaque.

Failed replications, biased incentives and weak oversight let fragile research shape policy, waste public money and erode trust.

Central Asia’s growing importance to global supply chains is opening new areas of strategic competition.

Election results in Saxony-Anhalt are less a sign that German democracy is in danger than a warning that the political establishment’s strategy to isolate the AfD has failed.

AI is driving electricity demand higher, but its net impact will depend on efficiency gains, new supplies and how quickly grids and safeguards adapt.

There is plenty to worry about in France’s economy, but the outlook is not entirely bleak.

A failed bomb attack on a Ukraine-bound plane in Germany reveals troubling political timidity toward Moscow’s escalating hybrid warfare.

Javier Milei has proven that stabilization is possible in Argentina, but the coming tests will set the tone for reform across the region.

Beijing is making its research system an experiment in whether AI can compensate for central planning.

Critical minerals, infrastructure and strategic competition are making Africa indispensable for global powers.

Ukraine’s drones flipped the war’s balance of power, striking deep into Russia’s logistics and industry and creating a fleeting operational advantage.

Armenia’s pro-European turn depends on whether the public accepts the price of peace with Azerbaijan and Turkiye, and whether Moscow can play spoiler.

Ukrainian attacks inside Russia and firmer Western support have upended the balance. This new pressure could lead Moscow to reconsider a path to negotiations.

As Ukraine’s forces battle Russia, Kyiv’s political leaders need to battle corruption. One place to start is by creating a fair, simple and transparent tax system.

The Kremlin’s move may be more saber-rattling, but it also heightens the security concerns of NATO members.

While Georgian society wants to be closer to Europe and regain its lost territories, pro-Russian leaders are positioning the Caucasus nation of 3.7 million people as a Kremlin ally.

A ceasefire could lock in Moscow’s gains, yet offers Ukraine, Europe and Russia a rare chance to rebuild, reset trade and bolster security – if they act wisely.

The intensity of Ukraine’s resistance to Russia will likely remain strong for at least another year, but worrisome problems need to be solved.

The Kremlin’s use of tactical nuclear weapons is no longer inconceivable. But a strong Western stance can stop President Vladimir Putin from taking such a step.

With irreconcilable war aims between the combatants, the conflict will drag into 2024 and inflict more damage to the global economy and long-standing security arrangements.

While the 31-nation alliance is committed to arming Ukraine, NATO allies took the prospect of membership off the table until at least after the war.

The 31-nation alliance is shifting its doctrine from a reactive stance to preemptive defense, prompted by Russia’s war on Ukraine.

The war in Ukraine has exposed the moral divide between the West and Russia. The Kremlin believes in spheres of influence backed by military power. The West has no hope of success unless it steels itself for the hard realities ahead.

Despite Berlin’s much-touted foreign policy pivot after the Kremlin’s invasion of Ukraine, many German politicians have not learned their lessons or atoned for their past mistakes.

How one attack revealed the strengths, weaknesses and massive losses on both sides. Only incremental advances by Ukraine are likely through the winter.

As Ukraine calls for NATO protection, the battle may shift from missiles to the negotiating table.

A union of 16 nations with 380 million people remains divided over what stance to take in the conflict.

While Chechen leader Ramzan Kadyrov’s followers are loyal to the Kremlin, other Chechens see the war as an opportunity to defeat Russia and regain independence.

President Volodymyr Zelenskiy fired the nation’s top two law enforcers, triggering the latest scandal over Ukraine’s corruption and weak governance.

Although Alexander Lukashenko has effectively surrendered Belarus’s sovereignty to Russia, a path remains for the democratic opposition in exile to restore independence.

Russia’s atrocities in Ukraine should have convinced the West by now that surrendering to selfish energy interests and Kremlin nuclear blackmail will have horrible consequences.

While Ukraine did not receive an invitation to join the alliance, several decisions were made to counter Russia more effectively.

In contrast to the deadlocked land war, Ukraine’s tactics in the Black Sea have dealt Russia humiliating defeats, with Turkey emerging as the sea’s maritime power

The attitude of the warring parties, combined with Europe’s political timidity and strategic indecisiveness, makes peace in Ukraine unlikely for now.

The notion that Europe needs a separate security strategy and a military force aside from NATO animates mostly the officials in Paris, but the idea stubbornly returns.

Nations have sadly not renounced invasions or armed conflicts, requiring peace-seeking countries to strengthen alliances in hopes of preventing such violence.