On thin ice

What’s going on? No one is sure and many are too shocked to try and work it out. But the events of the past week look and sound awfully like the shattering of the 80-year-old Atlantic alliance. For ha

Kenneth R. Rosen Polar WarSubmarines, spies, and the struggle forpower in a melting Arctic320pp. Profile. £22. The Norwegian government once invited me on a guided tour of the country’s far north, inc

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

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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