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The Russian challenge in Ukraine and a divided Western alliance

John C. Hulsman Feb 2, 2022

125.000 Russian troops ring Ukraine. Will President Vladimir Putin of Russia try to upend the European security architecture of the last seventy years, or is he merely bluffing? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ynbFmJBKn9o…

Guerra grigia in stile russo

Marta Ottaviani Jan 28, 2022

La teoria della "guerra non lineare", o guerra grigia, è stata implementata dalla Russia a partire dai primi anni 2000, cioè da quando Vladimir Putin ha preso il potere, ma la sua teorizzazione risale già all'epoca sovietica …

A Realist vision for the EU and NATO: genuine security priorities

John C. Hulsman Dec 20, 2021

In the next couple of months, NATO is going to release its Strategic Concept paper, and the EU will follow with its Strategic Compass paper. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mb8nNVadeFo

Biden and the Middle East: back to the past

John C. Hulsman Oct 23, 2021

Whereas the Biden Indo-Pacific foreign policy has an awful lot of commonality with the Trump position, in matters related to the Middle East it is being a very different policy. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XkQK0PF5oIo

The dangerous East Asian triangle: US-China-Japan

John C. Hulsman Jul 16, 2021

The Communist Party's vision of a "great modern socialist country in all respects" inevitably involves a world-beating military, which some China watchers say seeks to outcompete the United States in the region, perhaps…