NATO’s Ankara Summit is over and, as expected, the winner is Recep Tayyip Erdogan. The Turkish host has a lot to be happy about.
First, the summit put on display his special relationship to Donald Trump. Trump made it clear that he showed up at the Bestepe Palace largely thanks to his ties to Erdogan. In the run-up to the summit but also in Ankara,...
As is known, NATO is a military alliance established after the Second World War to protect the military security of the West against communism and Soviet expansionism. Beyond being merely a military alliance, NATO is a war machine that has also assumed the mission of maintaining the West’s political, diplomatic, strategic, and even cultural superiority. In the 1990s, when the Soviet system collapsed and...
As of early 2026, the U.S. had almost 170,000 active-duty troops stationed abroad in approximately 750 military bases located in some 178 different countries....
A year ago, Donald Trump entered office recommitting to “an America First” foreign policy. To many of his supporters that meant disengaging from the...
Three years ago, Russia invaded Ukraine, starting the largest-scale and deadliest war in Europe since 1945. However, Ukraine’s heroic resistance—bolstered by military and political...
With Russia's invasion of Ukraine, Turkey's place in NATO has become even more critical in parallel with Europe's comprehension of how vital NATO is....
