Summary: Formed in 1949 to counter Soviet expansion, NATO aimed to prevent Western Europe’s military overrun, focusing on maintaining air superiority, open sea communication lines to North ...

Former Warsaw Pact countries still aching from the legacy of Soviet garrisons and the influence of Moscow gathered around the NATO flame like abused patients seeking counselling. Despite ...

Russian prime minister has threatened to pull Slovakia from the EU and NATO, arguing such alliances could soon only exist in "the history books".

US securocrats pushed for expansionist policies in the 1990s that set the West and Russia on a path of confrontation.

Yes, there were Soviet troops in North Vietnam, and in significantly larger numbers than their Korean War predecessors. Although the Cold War never turned into a “hot war,” i.e., full-blown World War ...

Keir Starmer is under pressure from European leaders to join a £420 billion defence scheme amid threats to Nato by Donald Trump. The new President has urged Nato countries to boost their defence ...

Sir Keir Starmer is facing pressure from European leaders to join a €500 billion defence scheme, amid threats to Nato by Donald Trump.

Pursuant to General Assembly Resolution 78/261 of 26  February 2024, a "Second World Summit for Social Development" (WSSD2) was launched, to be held in ...

As President Trump looks to fix the issues that irk him the most, the issue of NATO defense spending — one of his perennial bugbears — is returning to the fore.

adding that just as the Warsaw Pact, the Soviet-dominated military alliance, “collapsed within a year, world events can send the EU and Nato to history books”. There are low levels of public ...

NATO Secretary General Mark Rutte seems to have been tempted, albeit briefly, by this notion of the poet-politician or the politician-poet. While his speech at the Concert Noble in Brussels last ...