If the New York businessman Donald Trump, who tonight is to accept the Republican nomination for president, would be elected in November, he wouldn’t automatically rush to NATO allies’ aid, he said in an interview. In an interview with the New York Times, published on Wednesday, Trump questioned whether he, as president, would automatically extend […]
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The alarm sounded just after 1 pm last Thursday at Ämari Air Base where the Royal Air Force is stationed to deter Russian aggression in the Baltic States. 900 miles away inside a control room in the German city of Uedem, the staff at NATO’s Combined Air Operations Centre was tracking three unidentified aircraft. The aircraft
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Russia is poised to gain technical superiority over NATO in areas that are crucial to the defence of the Baltic states. Scandinavian defence pundits are a sober bunch. But the latest report by the Swedish Defence Research Agency is a gripping read. Its 115 pages offer the first comprehensive and unclassified look at Europe’s biggest
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