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Europe’s Message to Moscow: We Will Keep Sanctions March 25, 2025

From the beginning of Russia’s invasion, the European Union has stood together with our American allies, providing military and humanitarian aid to Ukraine and imposing tough sanctions. Whatever the US now does, no reason exists to change course. ...

The Problem With Europe’s Half-Baked Rearmament March 25, 2025

Never underestimate Europe’s capacity to disappoint. Rearmament euphoria and the explosive catch-up rally in European industrial stocks over the last month have run ahead of hard fiscal facts. ...

Welcoming Europe’s Defense Industrial Renaissance March 22, 2025

Fearing a sustained threat from Russia and reduced military protection from the United States, several European nations led by Poland, Estonia, the United Kingdom, and Germany are boosting defense spending. The European Union is also making $163 bill...

Europe’s Fighting Talk Is No Substitute for Hard Power March 20, 2025

Instead of unconvincingly pumping out their chests, European leaders should engage with the Trump administration in constructive diplomacy with Russia. ...

Trump Must Consider a Stronger Lithuanian Partnership March 20, 2025

As a first-generation American of Lithuanian descent, I have a strong connection to this Baltic country. My parents fled Lithuania in 1985, then under Soviet control, and arrived in America in 1986 for a shot at the American dream.Like millions of fa...

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What Exactly Do Europe’s Leaders Want To Defend? March 18, 2025

They are playing war games but don't truly believe that Europe’s values are worth fighting for....

Europe Is Going Full 1790s America March 18, 2025

Trump and Russia are pushing the EU toward a “Hamiltonian moment,” where common debt helps build greater federalism. ...

Liberal Dreams & Geopolitical Realities in Brussels March 18, 2025

Since Donald Trump’s return to the White House for a second term, the world of international relations has been upended by dramatic shifts in US foreign policy. Trump’s on-again-off-again threats of tariffs on allies and adversaries aside, the most s...

The EU Killed Romania’s Democracy March 15, 2025

Romania has fallen to the status of a 'hybrid regime,' the only one in the European Union, and we have EU politicians and corrupt bureaucrats to thank for it.On March 11th, the Romanian Constitutional Court banned the most popular candidate from runn...

EU Defense Proposal Isn't a Course Correction March 14, 2025

It is not entirely without irony that the “The Most Successful Peace Project in the History of Mankind” is currently planning the continent’s most ambitious armaments programme since the end of World War Two. ...

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Europe’s Path to Global Influence March 12, 2025

To truly become a great power, the bloc will need a political structure that enables it to exercise the leadership long provided by the U.S. ...

America’s and Ukraine’s Interests Don’t Align March 11, 2025

President Donald Trump and Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky’s blowup in the Oval Office was the end of what should have been an obvious chain of events. The press has reported for the past two months on what increasingly dire relations between ...

Volodymyr Zelensky

MAGA Should Embrace a Stronger Europe March 11, 2025

American presidents since Kennedy have wanted Europe to shoulder more of the burden of its own security. But not until President Donald Trump has a U.S. leader succeeded in getting Europeans to want the same. Of course, the eruptions of a revanchist ...

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Trump Has Europe in Check March 10, 2025

“And are we not guilty of offensive disparagement in calling chess a game? Is it not also a science and an art, hovering between those categories as Muhammad’s coffin hovered between heaven and earth, a unique link between pairs of opposites: ancient...

Europe Is Still Dithering About Defense March 07, 2025

For nearly three years, European leaders have done what they do best — talk....

There’s No Denying It — Europe Needs Trump March 06, 2025

The European Union needs to update its web page on human rights. The fundamental right to freeload off American defense seems to be missing. ...

Europe’s Patriots Enthused by Trump March 05, 2025

“The Western world has a patriotic, pro-peace, anti-migration, and pro-family president in Washington,” Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán declared on Jan. 20, the day of Donald Trump’s second inauguration, adding that “in just a few hours the sun...

A Silver Lining Playbook for Europe March 04, 2025

The Trump-Zelensky Oval Office meeting laid bare what “the end of the post-Berlin Wall era” really means—now, the EU needs to change with the times...

Europe Wants to be the World’s Speech Police March 03, 2025

The greatest threat to Europe isn’t China, Russia, or some other external actor; it’s “the retreat of Europe from… fundamental values” like the freedom of speech.That was Vice President Vance’s warning to European leaders at the 2025 Munich Security ...

Here’s How Trump Can Still Win in Ukraine February 25, 2025

Monday marked the third anniversary of Russia’s illegal invasion of Ukraine. Although President Trump, NATO and the European Union continue spinning their wheels trying to agree on an end state to the war, Russia continues attacking Ukrainian civilia...

Talk Is Cheap (For Americans) February 25, 2025

Europeans were still reeling from a pair of unthinkable acts of American aggression when I arrived in London last week, and wow did they want to tell me all about it. ...

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Europe’s Reality Check February 21, 2025

As Donald Trump negotiates with Russia, Europe needs statesmanship and strategic thinking rather than knee-jerk emotive rhetoric and moral panic. ...

If Anything, J.D. Vance Was Polite to Europe February 21, 2025

It’s hypocritical to rally the free world around defending democracy if Western democracies themselves abandon democratic values....

Europe Must Think Long and Move Fast February 20, 2025

Europe must not be paralyzed by the sheer pace and discomfort of events. There’s time to get a good outcome if it moves swiftly and in unison. ...

Von der Leyen’s Hopeless Leadership February 19, 2025

There’s a reason Donald Trump and Vladimir Putin have chosen to relegate Europe to the children’s table over Ukrainian peace talks. ...