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Finland joins NATO: What Are the First Consequences?
With Finland’s official participation in NATO, the alliance now counts 31 countries. When Sweden will also overcome Turkish opposition, NATO will comprise 32 countries. Already now, the enlargement of the alliance is a heavy blow for Russia, which sees a new border with NATO being established in front of it, and loses some of its…
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One Year Later: NATO’s New Strategy for Europe
A year after the beginning of the conflict in Ukraine, NATO wants to adopt a different strategy along its borders. The change regards a deterrence mechanism based on the advanced defence of Eastern Europe, with battalions of hundreds of thousands of soldiers, vehicles and logistical support, stationed along the entire Europe-Russia border. NATO wants to…
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Criminals at War. The New Internal Fight in Moscow
The victory in Soledar – a small town of 10,000 inhabitants before the war, now nearly destroyed by Russian bombing – represents for the Russian command more a propaganda value than a strategic one: it is the first advance in six months, to be given to a supreme commander who grew up in the “Soviet…
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A New Russian Mobilisation: Costs and Defeats
The Kremlin’s decision to annex the currently occupied Ukrainian regions to Russia, as well as the “partial” mobilisation now in full force, are measures that came at a particularly difficult time for the Russian army. Indeed, the latest events on the battlefield seem to confirm the military dynamic established in September, with the sudden retreat…
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‘I won’t fight’. Conscientious Objection in Russia and Ukraine
This article is based on a conversation with Daniele Taurino, activist of the Italian Nonviolent Movement. Conscientious objection is a recognised worldwide right, already in use during the Second World War (think of Hacksaw Ridge). Little publicised by nation-states, which have no interest in anti-militarist propaganda, or in suggesting the existence of other ways…