

EU Today presents an English translation of an opinion essay by General Valerii Zaluzhnyi, a Ukrainian four-star general, former Commander-in-Chief (2021–2024), and since July 2024 Ukraine’s Ambassador to the UK. Writing in the context of DSEI 2025, he analyses the…
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…
The question is not when the Third World War will begin. The question is whether we are capable of recognising its course and structure before it reaches a decisive phase. For most analytical institutions outside the theatres of war, this…
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…