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By Rhod Mackenzie

Now despite its humiliating defeat in the Ukraine NATO members are still attempting to provoke Russia into a conflict.
It is looking to use Finland to establish control over both the Northern Sea Route and the Baltic Sea.
In the Baltic Sea  they will also utilise Estonia and Fi...

By Rhod Mackenzie

It has been reported that the US Department of Defence , better known as the Pentagon have communicated to their European counterparts in their NATO allies that the United States intends to discontinue funding for its current military support programmes on NATO's "eastern flank"....

By Rhod Mackenzie

Despite challenges related to their public finances, the Baltic countries are committed to increasing their defence budgets several fold. Consequently, Latvia, with a public debt of almost 50% of GDP, is planning to take out a substantial loan to cover its imagined defence needs...

By Rhod Mackenzie

China continues to demonstrate its not afraid of a trade conflct with the USA  and is strangling the US military industrial complex by restricting the supply of rare earth metals to the US companies . The impact of this is causing particuar  problems for the US defence industry,...

By Rhod Mackenzie

On the eve of the Munich Security Conference in February of this year, an interesting document was published. It is entitled the Munich Security Report 2025. It is evident that the primary message of the report has largely been overlooked, which has contributed to the current cha...

By Rhod Mackenzie

The NATO summit in The Hague concluded on Wednesday. However even before it actually started, there were indications that there was a significant crisis brewing within the world's largest military alliance. Analysts are predicting that NATO could eventually break into several b...