. The terms "rogue state" and a while ago "axis of evil" were used to categorize countries with some kind of supposedly...

. I wrote about extremist warfare in 2009 . The idea was that maximalist war objectives such as total annexation or unconditional surrender ...

. I'd like to remind you that any NATO member attack on another country without permission by the United Nations is a violation of the N...

. Countries are entitled to defend themselves against aggression, that's universally accepted international law and almost everyone (exc...

. The German constitution outlaws warmongering and requires that it shall be punished ( article 26 ). The respective laws are §80(a) in th...

. The political consequences. I wrote in 2016 that one shouldn't quit NATO ASAP when America turns fascist, despite the summer of 1914...

. The risk of the United States of America turning full Fascist has entered more mainstream media. I wrote about it years ago , but there...

. I believe that the ability to end a RUS-NATO war with a RUS threat of using 'tactical' nukes against attempts of reconquest (and ...

. " Escalatory " This word has been used a lot recently, typically by people who oppose aiding Ukraine to defend itself against t...

. The French were keen to reconquer Alsace-Lothringia after 1871. They conscripted to the maximum (about 75% of young men were deemed fit a...

I see three ways to look at the question whether Ukraine should be permitted to join the North Atlantic Treaty. The egoistical view: What...

. So Macron made some waves with his remarks that the anglophone internet doesn't seem to like.   I return to a long-held opinion that s...

. The ability of some people to perform mental gymnastics in regard to this ongoing war is astonishing. Most if not everything of what is be...

Defence policy (in the sense of providing security to your own nation against blockade/bombing/invasion, not in the sense of quasi-imperiali...

. Putin's pretence that the war of aggression / war of intended conquest against Ukraine is no war was ridiculed much, but it's a v...

. "War is a racket" by Major General Smedley D. Butler is an anti-war classic by a highly decorated U.S. Marine Cops officer....

. Foreign policy in Western Europe and later the whole EU was coined by cooperation and building of support for joint policies after 1951. T...