Tag: Ukraine
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Munich 2025: Trump, Vance and the end of Anti-Fascism
Philip Cunliffe asks whether Trump 2.0 marks not only the decisive end of the post-Cold War era, but also the end of an ideological framework that has dominated global politics since the 1940s. As European leaders were arriving for the Munich Security Conference 2025, Donald Trump was on the phone to Vladimir Putin talking peace…
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Now Trump is Out of Excuses
Peter Ramsay argues that the American election is not only a stunning defeat for the world’s authoritarian liberal elites, but also a victory for democracy, albeit a temporary and equivocal one. Above all, the result means that Trump’s brand of populism is out of political excuses, and we are about to find out if it…
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The Heart of Starmer’s Government
As the war in Eastern Europe escalates with Ukraine’s raid on Russia, Tara McCormack asks why Keir Starmer has pledged to put Ukraine at the heart of everything his government does. Britain’s new Labour government can be accused of vagueness and even dishonesty in its campaign to get elected. However, in one area at least…
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Conscription and the Void in Foreign Policy
Recent discussions in Britain over the reintroduction of conscription only expose the dangerous void between rulers and ruled, argues Lizzie Finnegan. The outgoing Chief of the General Staff, General Sir Patrick Sanders, recently stirred public controversy by proposing that the British armed forces should be significantly expanded by training and equipping a ‘citizen army’ capable…
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The Embers
23 January 2024 Give Thermonuclear World War a Chance Russia’s conspicuous failure to make much westward progress through Ukraine appears not to have discouraged European leaders who are keen to stoke war fever and fear of ‘barbarians at the gates’ among their own citizens. In aspiring NATO member Sweden, a minister declared ‘there could be…
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Brexit from NATO
“It took two decades of provocation by NATO before Russia was finally faced with the prospect of American nuclear missiles along its 1000 mile-long border with Ukraine and decided to invade.”
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Narcissism Goes to War
Peter Ramsay reviews Benjamin Abelow, How the West Brought War to Ukraine: Understanding How US and NATO Policies Led to Crisis, War, and the Risk of Nuclear Catastrophe
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Morgenthau Rides Again: Why is Germany Deindustrialising?
“A Morgenthau Plan Redux is being imposed on Germany not because it has suffered military defeat, but rather as the outcome of a US-led proxy war on Russia, a war that is succeeding in inflicting more immediate damage on Germany than it is on Russia?”
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Who Should Control Foreign Policy?
“As with Covid policy, to ask the most basic questions about means, ends, costs, benefits with respect to Ukraine is verboten and will draw a barrage of smears”
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Culture Wars and Wars for Values
“Both at home and abroad, culture-wars politics entails drawing a division between the enlightened, morally-superior minority attuned to the exclusions and oppressions of the vulnerable, and the uninformed, unaware majority who are likely to abuse if they are not re-educated and policed.”
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National Sovereignty and International Order
“Surveying the last 30 years from the vantage point of 2022, we can confidently say that the cosmopolitan project has failed.”
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Why the Tories Are Blowing Brexit
“…as Johnson cosplays as Winston Churchill in Ukraine, the domestic political task of ‘levelling up’ remains unaddressed.”
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Why the West Hates Russia
Anti-Russian obsession had already reached fever pitch well before Russia’s brutal invasion of Ukraine.
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Brexit from NATO
“It is Russia that has invaded Ukraine, but it is NATO’s high-handed indifference to political reality that has provoked the war. Reckless is a polite way of describing NATO’s policy.”
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Ukraine: The Reality of Sovereignty
“True respect for Ukrainian national sovereignty necessitates a careful policy of national neutrality, a policy that is also respected by foreign powers. The country’s leaders have for many years been doing their bit to ensure the opposite.”
The Northern Star 