Tag: China
Ankara Summit Shows NATO Rediscovering Its Purpose
NATO was built in 1949 to contain a Soviet threat its founders believed diplomacy alone could not hold. When the Soviet Union collapsed, the Alliance spent three decades answering a nagging question: what was it still for? The Ankara summit declaration gave an unusually direct answer.NATO names Russia and rediscovers…
Belarus Caught Between Russian Pressure and Ukrainian Deterrence
Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko made an unusually explicit promise to his servicemen in early July: "No one is going to send you into this slaughter." The declaration came after weeks of rising tension. Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy openly accused Russia of trying to pull Belarus deeper into the war, Kyiv…
China Helped Plan Starlink Destruction, Probe Finds
A joint investigation by The Insider, Der Spiegel, and Le Monde has found that China's proclaimed neutrality in Russia's war on Ukraine conceals years of military-technical cooperation, structured around an explicit three-tier plan to disable Elon Musk's Starlink network. By fall 2023, Starlink had become Ukraine's primary battlefield communications system,…
