Europe thinks the unthinkable on a nuclear bomb

“WE WOULD BE safer if we had our own nuclear arsenal,” Donald Tusk, Poland’s prime minister, told his country’s parliament on...

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NATO’s race against Russia to rearm

AS A YOUNG naval fighter pilot operating from a French carrier during the Kosovo war in 1999, Lieutenant Pierre Vandier would...

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America First is a contagious condition

HIGH-MINDED Americans fear that President Donald Trump will make a pariah of their country. Ask foreign governments about Tru...

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The tech bros selling drugs by drone

“NEW CHOPPERS, boots on the ground, more co-ordination, and increased resources.” These were some of the steps Canada has tak...

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America’s self-isolating president

IF AMERICA MUST be ruthless, at least let it be brilliant. That is the prayer that defenders of President Donald Trump must m...

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Can Europe confront Vladimir Putin’s Russia on its own?

WITHIN HOURS of his party winning national elections, Friedrich Merz, Germany’s presumptive next leader, dropped a bombshell....

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Australia prepares for a lonelier, harsher world

AUSTRALIANS HAVE felt lucky but anxious since the first colonists waded ashore, over two centuries ago. An edge of insecurity...

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Will it be Ukraine today, Taiwan tomorrow?

THE EARTHQUAKE in transatlantic relations caused by President Donald Trump’s looming abandonment of Ukraine seemed to cause b...

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Donald Trump is junking the transatlantic alliance

BUILDING THE transatlantic partnership centred on NATO took decades of troop deployments, joint exercises and steadfast signa...

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Donald Trump’s assault on Europe

FOR EUROPE, the shocks came in quick and bewildering succession. First Pete Hegseth, America’s defence secretary, told Americ...

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