The middle powers are on the menu

Donald Trump’s demands for control of Greenland by means of punitive tariffs of 10%-25% on eight Nato allies, or perhaps by military means if resisted, is “without parallel or precedent”, says Faisal

robertskidelsky.substack.com Britain’s strategic defence review, published in June 2024, sought to “implant a war-ready mindset across society”, says Robert Skidelsky. It insisted that the UK must pre

The Russian threat Controversy of the week “The ...

FOUR WEEKS BEFORE THE BEGINNING of his second term as President, Donald Trump abruptly floated the idea of taking back the Panama Canal. It had been a quarter-century since the U.S. formally ceded to

The United States’ raid to capture Venezuelan leader Nicolás Maduro shows President Donald Trump is not afraid of conflict to achieve his foreign policy aims across the Americas

We are in a real-life game of Risk. In 2019, Fiona Hill, an official at the US National Security Council during Donald Trump’s first term, said the Russians had informally proposed a plan whereby they