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The Kremlin’s Influence Game
Does he or doesn’t he? (Work for the Russians, that is.) With the tensions between Russia and the West growing, Russian subversion seems to be everywhere, including the genteel world of think thanks...
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Lithuania's Independence Day and American Soldiers
This blog is called “Transatlantic Connection,” and this week in Vilnius, the Lithuanian capital, I experienced true transatlantic connections in action. As two colleagues and I jostled for a spot in...
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Sweden, Finland, and NATO
What a difference a year makes. A year ago, the share of Swedes opposing NATO membership reached 50 percent, up by 10 percentage points from a year earlier. But now only 35 percent oppose NATO...
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Responding to Kremlin Propaganda in the Baltics
How to counter Vladimir Putin’s propaganda? The EU is trying to decide on a strategy. Meanwhile—you read it here first—the Nordic and Baltics states are steaming ahead with a very concrete plan that...
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America’s Voice in Europe to Counter the Kremlin
The Nordic countries (as I reported in my previous post) are helping their Baltic neighbors counter Russia’s pervasive propaganda by lending them not just human resources and expertise but their own...
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The Nordic Battlegroup, Ready and Willing
This is transnational solidarity in action: Since the beginning of this year, more than 2,400 soldiers and officers from seven European countries—Sweden, Norway, Finland, Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania,...
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Prospects for the Northeast Passage
It was going to be the advent of a new and cost-effective route for global trade, one that would cut through the Arctic ice, bypass the longer Suez Canal route, and conveniently sail from China to...
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At Estonian Air Base, the Roar of Freedom
One might be forgiven for not being familiar with a location called Amari. In fact, until recently there wasn’t much there to be familiar with. After the Soviet armed forces left their air base there,...
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The Rush for Moldovan Citizenship
Moldova is not the kind of country people move to. In fact, at a recent conference on global demographics at the University of Oxford, a CIS expert pointed to the small republic between Romania and...
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The US Drawdown from Germany
This is direct democracy at work: in the German city of Schweinfurt, residents have for the past couple of years been invited to design the future of a huge chunk of city land that has suddenly been...
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Europe’s Northern Group
Under ordinary circumstances, the Northern Group would hardly be headline news. The association of northern European countries holds regular ministerial meetings, strategic meetings, and expert-level...
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Is It Time for a New Welles Declaration?
“During these past few days the devious processes where under the political independence and territorial integrity of the three small Baltic Republics—Estonia, Latvia, and Lithuania—were to be...
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Moscow’s Info War in Sweden
Last week brought the news of a most alarming discovery off the Swedish coast: a sunken Russian submarine. Given the Swedish Navy’s unsuccessful hunt for a suspected Russian submarine last fall, it was...
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Submarine Intruders on Sweden’s Coastline
The Kremlin had ridiculed the Swedish Navy’s futile efforts trying to locate a suspected submarine off the coast of Stockholm, the capital, last fall. Last week the long-anticipated report on the...
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The Baltic Defense Bubble
Last week, General Philip Breedlove—the supreme commander of Allied Forces in Europe, and thus NATO’s top military officer—warned that Russia is building up a defensive bubble in the Mediterranean....
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Estonia’s Defense Contractor Startups
Like any trade fair, London’s annual DSEI show allows participants so inclined to salivate over their industry’s latest innovations. But DSEI—the acronym stands for Defense and Security Equipment...
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US Upgrades Security at Nuclear Bases Near Syria
The United States has upgraded the security at its two largest overseas nuclear weapons bases, Incirlik Air Base in Turkey and Aviano Air Base in Italy. Incirlik is undergoing a particularly extensive...
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European Solidarity Under Stress
On a recent day this month, a total of eight asylum-seekers arrived in Hungary. On other days, too, the figure has remained at 10 or lower. That’s a dramatic drop for a country that received nearly...
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Spying on Friends
“Friends don’t spy on one another,” said German Chancellor Angela Merkel two years ago, when new NSA leaks revealed that the US signals intelligence agency had snooped on her and other German...
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Syria’s Unfriendly Skies
There’s no doubt as to the sequence of events on November 24th: A Russian fighter plane crossed into Turkish airspace and the Turkish military shot it down. It’s not clear, however, that the pilots of...
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