Stay Behind is back. Not necessarily with buried radio transmitters, secret weapons caches and hand-picked men meeting in dark basements. The new version is more modern, more technological and far harder to detect. This time,…
While Trump Opens the Door to Peace, Europe…
What could have been done years ago may finally be starting to happen. The United States is signalling new negotiations and possible compromises to end the war in Ukraine. At the same time, European leaders…
Russia Has Imperial Ambitions?
The War Was Foreseen. Its Causes Were Rewritten. For decades, the people who understood Russia best gave the same warning: pushing NATO into Ukraine would end in catastrophe. Today, we have Western political leaders such…
The War We Haven’t Named
When we picture a third world war, we picture the second: armies crossing borders, cities burning, a clear before and after. What if we are already inside it and haven’t recognised it? Many scholars expected…
Ukraine: We Warned About This Back in 2011,…
How many times must history repeat itself before Europe's leaders understand that security cannot be built on fear, military rearmament and ever-new enemy images? The war in Ukraine is often portrayed as if it arose…
Peace mobilisation across the Nordic countries: “A major…
Protesters in Oslo with the demand ‘No to US bases in the Nordic countries’. Photo: submitted, photographer not stated. It was not primarily the crowd in Oslo that Kristine Mollø-Christensen took note of after the…
Some Lives Are More Human Than Others
In the imperial world, US soldiers who go to foreign lands, kill a lot of people and destroy their homes and lives have PTSD if they display violent behaviour when they return home. The people…
The War of Attrition: Why Russia Is Advancing…
There are several arguments that keep recurring whenever the wars in Ukraine and the Middle East are discussed. Two in particular deserve a closer look: that Russia is barely moving and therefore must be losing,…
USA leaving Iraq after 23 years.
There are dynamics at play in today's geopolitics. 1. US over extension. 2. Multipllarity 3. European devastating loss. Let's cover all of them. US overextension 1. USA has 900 military installations around the world. Logistics…