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Russia's the Enemy
Russia's the enemy | Dr. John R. Deni Background image: firefighters hose down a fire in rubble after a Russian missile hit a large printing house in Kharkiv, Ukraine, May 2024, by AP Photo/Andrii Marienko, from the Pittsburg Post-Gazette article (https://www.post-gazette.com/opinion/insight/2025/03/02/deni-ukraine-russia-us-enemy-dominance-international-relations/stories/202502230055)
April 21, 2025 - The United States has never been directly involved in the war in Ukraine. U.S. troops weren’t sent there to fight for Ukraine against the Russian invaders, and both sides of our political spectrum seemed intent on keeping it...
Russia, Ukraine, and Collective Defence
Russia, Ukraine, and Collective Defence | Dr. John R. Deni & Anca Agachi Background image of the NATO and Ukraine flags from Wikimedia (https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Ukraine_%E2%80%93_NATO_Commission_chaired_by_Petro_Poroshenko_(2017-07-10)_48.jpg)
April 21, 2025 - The ability to adapt to a constantly evolving security environment has been critical to the success of NATO, yet this is being tested anew as the Alliance faces a second term of Donald Trump in the White House and re-embraces...
Does NATO Still Matter?
Does NATO still matter? | Dr. John R. Deni The alliance has created economic growth, peace and stability. Image from article: https://www.dallasnews.com/opinion/commentary/2025/03/31/does-nato-still-matter/
April 21, 2025 - The alliance has created economic growth, peace and stability. America’s relationship with Europe is undergoing a potentially profound reexamination. Whether and how the transatlantic bond — especially America’s commitment to...
Don’t waste this crisis, Europe: consolidate your defense industry
Don’t waste this crisis, Europe: consolidate your defense industry | Dr. John R. Deni
April 15, 2025 - Turn your excess national defense champions into continental ones.Russia’s ongoing war in Ukraine and questions about the American commitment to NATO have cast a spotlight on European efforts to safeguard security on the...
A Drawdown of US Forces in Europe Is All but Certain
A Drawdown of U.S. Forces in Europe Is All but Certain Here’s how the Pentagon can rebalance its approach to the continent without sacrificing U.S. interests.
April 15, 2025 - Here’s how the Pentagon can rebalance its approach to the continent without sacrificing US interests.The Trump administration has only just begun to fill its ranks with the political appointees who will flesh out the future...
8 Simmering Threats You Shouldn’t Ignore in 2025: A Plausibly Deniable Russian War Against Europe
A Plausibly Deniable Russian War Against Europe | John R. Deni, in Foreign Policy
Jan. 2, 2025 - The sabotage of undersea communications cables in the Baltic Sea by the cargo ship Yi Peng 3 is only the latest in a series of asymmetric attacks against Western interests and infrastructure that appear to be connected in one...
It’s (Still) More Expensive to Rotate Military Forces Overseas than Base Them There
It’s (still) more expensive to rotate military forces overseas than base them there | By John R. Deni
Dec. 19, 2024 - In mid-2020, then-President Donald Trump ordered the Pentagon to withdraw roughly one-third of US forces from Germany, reportedly because of policy differences with Berlin. Given how long it would take to implement such a...
Will Assad’s Defeat be Putin’s Waterloo?
Will Assad’s defeat be Putin’s Waterloo? | John R. Deni The Assad regime in Syria has become a casualty of Moscow’s increasingly desperate efforts in Ukraine, and its collapse is a strategic and operational blow that undermines the narrative of Russia as ascendant, Kyiv as doomed, and Vladimir Putin as strategic mastermind.
Dec. 10, 2024 - The narrative of Russia’s ascendancy in 2024 is beginning to look like more fiction than fact. The Assad regime in Syria has become a casualty of Moscow’s increasingly desperate efforts in Ukraine, and its collapse is a...
Pretexts for War and the Preinvasion Crisis in Ukraine
Pretexts for War and the Preinvasion Crisis in Ukraine | Ron Gurantz
Dec. 5, 2024 - The US strategy in the run-up to the invasion of Ukraine appeared to undermine Russian efforts to justify the war. While studies of international crises typically focus on the goals of deterrence and escalation management,...
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