Andrew Stuttaford

September 6, 2022
Russia Crosses the Nord Stream
To say that Europe is heading into new political, economic, and financial territory is an understatement.
August 1, 2022
Putin’s Genocide in Ukraine
Moscow wants to destroy the Ukrainian people, as such.
June 13, 2022
A Base in Cambodia?
China’s advance in the South Pacific may have suffered a (temporary?) setback, but it seems to be making progress elsewhere.
May 16, 2022
Finland, Sweden, Turkey, and NATO
As suspected, Turkey’s objections to Finland and Sweden joining NATO were the first moves in a bargaining process (accepting new members into NATO requires the unanimous...
May 13, 2022
A Baltic Realist
The New Statesman is running an excellent article by Jeremy Cliffe on Estonia’s impressive prime minister, Kaja Kallas, who like many in the Baltic (I have...
February 15, 2022
Ukraine and Finlandization
It’s a stretch to think that Putin would treat a ‘Finlandized’ Ukraine in a relatively hands-off way.
January 5, 2022
Germany's Dangerous Entanglements: China Edition
That Germany’s increasing reliance on natural gas from Russia (a reliance that, one way or another, will be boosted further by the shuttering of three nuclear power...