Europe’s Delusions Over What It Means to Deter Russia

Leaders are afraid to tell voters what it will take to defend their continent.

Macron, Starmer, and Merz talk at a summit in Tirana, Albania September 10, 2025, 12:52 PM Comment icon View Comments ( )

Russia’s War in Ukraine

Understanding the conflict three years on.

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In December 1941, as Japanese bombers and landing ships converged on Singapore, British Prime Minister Winston Churchill still clung to the belief that the British territory and naval base remained impregnable—”our boasted fortress,” as the British commander responsible for its defense called it . Its surrender was, in Churchill’s devastating assessment , the “worst disaster and largest capitulation in British history,” the defeat lea

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