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,…
Zelensky Warns of 20 Million Ukrainians. Should Europe…
Ukraine’s President Volodymyr Zelensky has now deployed one of the most powerful political arguments Europe can be confronted with. He warns that 20 million Ukrainians could flee to Europe if Ukraine loses the war. The…
Europe’s Defeat Is Larger Than It Seems
For several hundred years, the question of who counted as a great power was a European question. That era is ending, and the war in Ukraine is its clearest sign. The story runs from how…
Billions for Weapons, but Who Repairs the People?
There is something deeply troubling about political developments in Norway and Europe. Politicians talk about war, NATO demands increased military capacity, and the arms industry gains ever larger markets. The billions are appropriated, the weapons…
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…