Section: The Huffington Post (USA)
The Polish Boomerang: How Warsaw’s Adoption of the ‘Budapest Model’ Could Threaten the Original in Hungary
There is no denying that 2015 was a great year for Viktor Orbán, the illiberal Prime Minister of Hungary, who made the most of Europe’s tragedies to transform himself from political pariah to ideological leader. While Time chose his nemesis German Chancellor Angela Merkel as “Person of the Year,” driven by convention and wishful...
Despite Its Flaws, I Still Believe in NATO
Huffington Post readers can be deeply skeptical of NATO, and it’s not hard to understand why. It’s not the kind of place that inspires awe. The antiquated Headquarters in Belgium resemble less a political-military nerve center than a high-end trailer park. A British observer is said to have called it a ‘Soviet...
Why is NATO Inducting Military Midgets Like Montenegro?
Is NATO a military alliance or social club? The “North Atlantic” Treaty Organization invited Montenegro to join. With 2,080 men under arms, Podgorica is a military nullity. Having peacefully separated from Serbia years ago, Montenegro neither threatens nor is threatened by anyone. Adding it to NATO is like accumulating Facebook...
Why Russia and China Won’t Curb North Korea Any More Than the U.S. Will Curb Saudi Arabia
VLADIVOSTOK, Russia — On Jan. 6, the North Korean government announced to the world that it had conducted a successful test of a hydrogen bomb. There are significant doubts as to whether the device detonated was actually a thermonuclear bomb. For that, the energy yield should have been by orders of magnitude greater. According to...
Inside The Trauma Centers Treating Ukraine’s Veterans
Since early 2014, tens of thousands of Ukrainian troops have taken part in a bloody war with pro-Russian separatists in East Ukraine. Over 9,100 soldiers have died and over 20,000 have been injured, according to a December 2015 United Nations report.But for many Ukrainian soldiers returning home, there is a battle that can’t be fought with...
Netflix Just Achieved Near World Domination
Video streaming company Netflix Inc on Wednesday launched its services in 130 countries, covering almost the entire globe except China, as part of efforts to counter slowing growth in the United States.Shares of the company, whose popular shows include “House of Cards”, “Orange Is The New Black” and “Narcos”,...
Putin Lists U.S. As One Of The Threats To Russia’s National Security
MOSCOW, Jan 2 (Reuters) – A new appraisal names the United States as one of the threats to Russia’s national security for the first time, a sign of how relations with the west have deteriorated in recent years.The document, “About the Strategy of National Security of Russian Federation,” was signed by President Vladimir...
Putin Lists U.S. One Of The Threats To Russia’s National Security
MOSCOW, Jan 2 (Reuters) – A new appraisal names the United States as one of the threats to Russia’s national security for the first time, a sign of how relations with the west have deteriorated in recent years.The document, “About the Strategy of National Security of Russian Federation,” was signed by President Vladimir...
Top 11 U.S. Conflict Prevention Priorities Going Into 2016: Survey
Preventing further intensification of Syria’s civil war should be the top priority for U.S. policymakers in 2016, according to leading experts who took part in the Council on Foreign Relations’ (CFR) eighth annual Preventive Priorities Survey. Syria’s civil war has replaced the conflict in Iraq as the number one concern among...
Framing Obama’s Democracy Promotion Legacy
U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry recently published an op-ed in The Boston Globe. The piece hits on many of the achievements which the Obama administration intends to use to bolster the president’s foreign policy legacy, including the Iran nuclear agreement, the climate change accord, the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) trade deal and the...
