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European defence spending jumps as governments respond to prolonged insecurity
Newly published data show global military expenditure reached $2.887 trillion in 2025, with Europe recording a 14 per cent rise as NATO members, Russia and Ukraine continued to expand defence budgets. Global military expenditure rose again in 2025, with Europe…
CSIS: Russia’s advance in Ukraine measured in metres, not kilometres
A Washington-based think tank, the Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS), says the pace of Russia’s ground advance in Ukraine has fallen to levels that are historically low when set against major combined-arms offensives over the past century. In…
Greater Cooperation with Ukraine in the Defence Industry as a Strategy to Avoid War
Security of Europe through Unity and Resolve This material was written for the Polish outlet Eastern Flank Institute and was published on the think tank’s website on 20 October 2025. The war in Ukraine is the result of a whole…
Meeting In Alaska: A Big Deal Without Any Peace Deal
An Inuit proverb says: “Even the strongest eagle cannot fly higher than the stars.” But this truth does not apply to Trump. If one cannot soar higher, then the star must be brought down to earth. And that is what…
H-Hour: Russia’s War Against Europe
Last year, during a working-level exchange with officials from NATO Headquarters, I received a response to an assertion found in one of the Centre for “XXI Strategy”’s studies—something that might seem self-evident in the eleventh year of Russia’s aggression: “the…