The debate over Europe’s role in the Russia-Ukraine war is becoming increasingly difficult to separate from a broader question: is the objective simply to defend Ukraine, or has weakening Russia itself become part of the strategic objective?

Kaja Kallas, the EU’s foreign policy chief, has made re...

For decades Africans were taught to celebrate independence days with flags, parades, speeches and national anthems while the deeper machinery of control remained firmly intact behind the curtains of diplomacy, banking systems, military agreements, foreign corporations, intelligence networks and pupp...

When Donald Trump speaks today, markets listen, governments react, and allies pause in confusion, yet what has become increasingly clear is that the pattern of decisions coming out of Washington no longer follows a coherent economic or strategic logic, but instead reflects a mix of impulsive politic...

One of the most repeated claims in modern geopolitical discourse is that Ukraine “gave up its nuclear weapons” after the collapse of the Soviet Union and that this decision supposedly proved that nuclear disarmament is foolish because Ukraine later found itself at war with Russia. The statement is r...

When King Charles III stood before the United States Congress and delivered a speech interpreted by many as urging confrontation with Russia, it crossed a line that should never be approached lightly. Monarchs are meant to embody continuity and restraint. Instead, what the world witnessed was a mess...

There is a story being sold to the public across Europe, the United Kingdom and Australia and it sounds harmless at first glance because it is wrapped in the language of convenience, security and modernisation, yet beneath that polished surface sits something far more serious, a structural shift in...

For years Nigerians avoided using the phrase “failed state” when discussing their country because the term sounded too extreme, too insulting and too final. It belonged to places people watched on television with pity and distance, countries consumed by civil war, famine, militia rule and institutio...

There are moments in history when leadership is tested not by speeches or slogans but by outcomes, and when measured by outcomes the current leadership of the European Union stands exposed as a project that has drifted far from its founding promise into something increasingly brittle, reactive, and...

There is something deeply troubling about a government spending roughly N21 billion to complete an official residence for the Vice President, commissioning it with great ceremony, and then leaving the building unused for nearly two years. The residence for Vice President Kashim Shettima was commissi...

For more than a decade now, the dominant Western narrative surrounding the events of 2014 in Ukraine has been repeated so aggressively, so emotionally and so constantly that many people simply accept it as unquestionable truth. According to this version of events, the Euromaidan protests were a pure...