The Countermeasure·21 hours agoWill Ukraine Eventually Join NATO?Henry Kissinger, the legendary US diplomat and foreign policy mind, turned 100 this month. Interviewed by the Wall Street Journal for his birthday, Kissinger had a lot to say on Ukraine — and why he’s double-backed on his previous stance. Known for his realpolitik outlook on world affairs, Kissinger was…Foreign Policy3 min readForeign Policy3 min read
Ken BriggsinCurrent History·1 day agoMember-onlyThe Case for Ukraine Joining NATOIt Could Enhance European Security — Realism and Russia Many analysts implicate the expansion of NATO in the Russian decision to invade Ukraine. The eastward expansion of the security bloc into the nations of the former Warsaw Pact and then into the former Soviet Republics of the Baltics was seen as an encroachment on Russia’s sphere of influence. This…Foreign Policy7 min readForeign Policy7 min read
The Countermeasure·3 days agoTensions in Kosovo heat upAt least 25 NATO peacekeepers have been injured in violent clashes in Kosovo and with Serbia alerting its combat forces stationed on the border, some are beginning to ask if war could return to the Balkans. Back in December 2022, I wrote a piece about a peculiar license plate law…Foreign Policy3 min readForeign Policy3 min read
Ken BriggsinCurrent History·2 days agoMember-onlyWhy They Dropped the BombWorld War II Ends with Shock and Awe — Setting the Battlefield It was a decision that will live in infamy. It was August of 1945. Through its island-hopping campaign across the Pacific, the Americans had cornered the Japanese army to its homeland. The Chinese were engaged in a campaign to expel the Japanese from the East Asian mainland. The Soviet Union…Foreign Policy7 min readForeign Policy7 min read
The Countermeasure·4 days agoWhat Russia loses in the long runWestern media has laid out Russia’s gains, losses, and future prospects based on their performance on the battlefield. …Foreign Policy4 min readForeign Policy4 min read
The Countermeasure·4 days agoPoland plans to be the powerhouse of EuropeBack in February 2023, Polish Prime Minister Mateusz Morawiecki remarked that “It is quite visible that the center of gravity has moved here to Poland and other countries in Europe.” Morawiecki, basing his statement off of Poland’s justified suspicion of Russia, was referring to Warsaw’s resurgence on the European continent…Foreign Policy4 min readForeign Policy4 min read
Ivan I. KhalilinDialogue & Discourse·4 days agoWhat Happens When the US Dollar Collapses?Astronomical public debt figures and rising inflation are bound to depreciate the global reserve currency. — The US Dollar is in danger. That statement alone is quite controversial in the financial sphere today. Despite the reassurances of many economists that the dollar is too big to fail, there remains a significant cause for concern. The story of the US dollar and how we got here is…Foreign Policy5 min readForeign Policy5 min read
The Countermeasure·5 days agoCould Russia lose from within?News of pro-Ukrainian Russians fighting the Russia army near Belgorod have spurred on ideas that Moscow and its allies could be facing bigger, regime-threatening uprisings. On May 25, 2023, media outlets and conflict observers across social media began reporting that a group of pro-Ukraine Russians had taken up arms against…Foreign Policy3 min readForeign Policy3 min read
Rodin Porrata·5 days agoWestern Bias is Injected Into Our Most Powerful Artificial IntelligenceChatGPT Admits That its Theories About How the War in Ukraine Got Started are Wrong! — I had a conversation with ChatGPT to try to understand how much Western Pro-Liberal ideas have influenced the way it understands the world. ChatGPT is an artificial neural network (ANN) of a type called a Large Language Model (LLM). In some ways it represents one of the most powerful instances…Foreign Policy15 min readForeign Policy15 min read
The Countermeasure·5 days agoIs the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict over?On May 22, 2023, Russian news agencies broke the news that Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan is willing to recognize Azerbaijan’s claim over Nagorno-Karabakh, a region that the two nations have fought over for decades. In 1994, the first official war over Nagorno-Karabakh ended, and the dispute dissolved into a…Foreign Policy3 min readForeign Policy3 min read
