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A Threat to Russian Containment
The recent (March 2025) decision to permit Western investment firms to exit Russian securities marks a shift in the Kremlin’s response to financial
NATO & Defense
NATO alliance developments, Western military aid, defense partnerships, and security policy.
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‘Pushing Dragons Off Maps’: A handbook for resisting nuclear threats
Ukrainians and the foreign volunteers here keep pushing the dragons off the map. By holding on fast they open the promise of their 2014 Maidan
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Could Ukraine have Remained a Nuclear State? Facts and Reflections
What made Ukraine give up its nuclear arsenal, and could Ukraine avoid it?
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The complete chronology of how the Ukrainian nuclear potential was destroyed.
Once Ukraine happened to be the third-largest nuclear power in the world. Thousands of nuclear arms had been left on Ukrainian soil by Moscow after the collapse of the Soviet Union in 1991. But in the years that followed, Ukraine decided to denuclearize completely.