From Powder Keg to Bulwark: The Balkans can Save Europe.
5 March 2025 Since sitting down to write this article last week a lot happened. The Zelensky-Trump meeting, an appalling commentary on how far the West has fallen. Worse still,…
Strategic Instability and Vulnerability in the Balkans
27 January 2025 This week, despite EU protests, Kosovo has moved forward with the closure of parallel institutions used by the country’s ethnic Serb minority. This, as an election observation…
To Win the Long Game, American Allies Must Embrace Tough Love
3 December 2024 With Donald Trump poised to return to the White House in 2025, American allies must prepare for an era where the United States prioritizes support for those…
Erdoğan’s diminished Turkey faces a questionable future.
21 November 2024 Turkish leader Tayyip Erdoğan’s re-election last year means the 70-year-old President is now serving his last legal term. Questions have been raised about his future and with…
Kosovo: A thorn in the side of the Balkans
14 November 2024 In August connected to my writing on Bulgaria’s election woes I dedicated time to exploring the move in Belgrade towards Europe and the ways in which relations…
Bulgaria’s 7th election, no solution but many concerns.
12 November 2024 With everyone focused on the US election and is consequences, a good change of station might be a follow up on my article from late August concerning…
Red Dawn: North Korea’s Potential Entry into Ukraine
North Korea’s involvement in Russia’s Ukraine War is coming to a new chapter, one that Ukrainian President Zelenskyy had coined “the first step to a World War”. It is becoming…
Bulgaria sits on the front line of a brewing Balkan crisis and Serbia could be the solution.
26 August 2024 Over the last three years, Bulgaria has faced no less than six general elections, with a seventh (until recently) scheduled for the 20th of October. Despite repeated…
Canada’s 2% Problem
11 July 2024 Prime Minister Trudeau is in Washington DC for the NATO summit this week where he and his team have been getting absolutely pummeled for Canada’s pathetic defence…
Canada: Time To Dig Deep for Ukraine…and for yourself
The war in Ukraine has entered its third year or tenth year, depending on how one looks at it. It has been ten years since the Russian annexation of Crimea…