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There’s a concept in international relations, almost one of the first that students learn, called the ‘security dilemma’. It’s hardly rocket science, but it’s something governments and armed forces planners seem to consistently forget when it comes to making policy. The idea is basically this: Country A feels threatened by …

PM Mateusz Morawiecki on Monday wrote to EU leaders, institutions and member state governments claiming that “unfortunately, today we are dealing with a very dangerous phenomenon whereby various European Union institutions usurp powers they do not have under the Treaties and impose their will on Member States”. We ought to …

Australia’s decision to renege on a €56 billion contract it had agreed with France for the supply of eight diesel electric submarines might have caused some upset in the Elysee Palace but British joker and sometime PM Boris Johnson’s mocking ‘donnez-moi un break’ will have French President Emmanuel Macron reaching …

Last week Biden called Xi Jinping. My analysis of that event was that it was a political blow to Biden, as he had been pushed into it by Beijing demanding respect and leveraging contact. The political fallout of having that conversation has since been obvious domestically in America.  Just the …

“Aborting the drive for elections will for many be a signal that violence is the only path to power in the country. This cannot be allowed,” Jan Kubis, the head of the UN mission in Libya, said. “The country and its people need a full clarity that the elections are …

The Miami, Florida-based IT company Kaseya found at the beginning of July that its IT management software Virtual System Administrator (VSA) had been hijacked by hackers with ransomware, asking for US$70 million to release its grip. Kaseya serviced around 1,500 customers across the globe, according to Reuters, and, when faced …

Writing in Hamburg’s Die Zeit newspaper on Tuesday, Putin emphasized the role the Soviets played in liberating European nations from Nazi occupation. The president paid tribute to the soldiers of the Red Army, “who not only defended the independence and dignity of our homeland, but also saved Europe and the …

The United States Constitution states that all men are granted inalienable rights by their creator, and thus have the rights to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness. It goes without saying that slavery, by its very definition, infringed upon every one of those rights, which is why Abraham Lincoln …

Fauci, the director of the Nat­ional Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID) at the National Institute of Health, “did not alert senior White House officials before lifting the ban on gain-of-function research in 2017,” Australian journalist Sharri Markson claimed in a report published on Friday. “It kind of just …

“We strongly believe that ransomware attacks will not decrease in the near future,” BSI specialist Dirk Haeger told Germany’s Die Zeit newspaper. Criminals have found new ways of extorting money from their victims by encrypting companies’ sensitive data and demanding ransom for it, he said, hinting that these attacks will …