Authoritarian Threats
People risk their lives to criticize dictatorships. The least rich countries can do is protect them.
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January 24, 2023
Georgia’s High-Risk Balancing Act
Western sanctions on Russia might be working, but there are many loopholes especially in the southern borderlands.
January 23, 2023
Germany to Crocodile: Eat Me Last
The failure of NATO’s January 20 Ramstein conference to provide main battle tanks for Ukraine reveals continuing and alarming fissures in European security, especially in Germany.
January 23, 2023
Predators Will Circle Baltic Power Farms
Nowhere is the clean energy transition more promising than in the Baltic Sea, but new infrastructure must be protected from accidents and threats.
January 21, 2023
Germany: Exporting Irresponsibility
Scholz’s dithering harms Ukraine, Germany, and the West.
January 19, 2023
Our Debt to Ukraine — Payback Time
Europe has been unwilling to understand the clear link between Ukraine’s freedom and its own.
January 19, 2023
Russia-China Relations: Partnership of Convenience?
One year on from Russia and China’s proclamation of a “No Limits Partnership”, what has the relationship achieved?
January 19, 2023
Russian Media in Exile and Latvia: The Limits of Free Speech
Much has been made of a dispute between Latvia and a Russian TV station, but the broader picture is much more encouraging.
January 17, 2023
Western Oil Cap Helps Slash Russian Oil Revenues by $150bn
There were widely voiced doubts as to whether the West’s oil price cap would work. The naysayers have been proved badly wrong.
January 17, 2023
The Fourth Battle of the Atlantic Is Underway
This new struggle is being waged beneath the waves. But just as in earlier Atlantic campaigns, it is a conflict the US and its allies cannot afford to lose.