Europe’s greatest strategic failure was not that it misread Russia. It was that it forgot geography. Russia is not some sort of theoretical adversary conjured up by this paper. Russia is Europe’s permanent neighbour. It is a continental, cultural, energy, military and civilizational fact. Russia cannot be sanctioned out of existence or bombed off the […]

The so-called “free world” is an oxymoron. In truth, it is the very antithesis of freedom; it is its most absolute negation. The comparison is stark but necessary. When the United States invaded Iraq: no sanctions against Washington, no exclusion from SWIFT, no freezing of American assets abroad, and no arms deliveries to the Iraqi […]