Unless you act, 'it's just rhetoric' — Baltic states skeptical of Western European leadership
As the U.S. chooses an increasingly hostile posture toward Europe, the U.K. and France have been gearing up to lead the ...
The Manila Times3d
Revenue of Maxima Group in 2024 exceeds EUR 6 billion, profit down by nearly 5%
The Baltic retail leader MAXIMA GRUPĖ, UAB, which operates the "Maxima” retail chains in Lithuania, Latvia and Estonia, ...
CounterPunch2dOpinion
For the Love of Landmines: European States Exit the Ottawa Convention
Paranoia manifests in various ways.  It can eat away individuals in desperate solitude, whittling away sanity and ...
Which countries are quitting a key landmine treaty and why?
NATO members Poland, Finland and all three Baltic states have queued up over the past few weeks to withdraw from the Ottawa ...
Lithuanians bid farewell to 4 US soldiers who died during training exercise
Thousands of people have turned out to bid farewell to four American soldiers who died during a training exercise in the ...
Why Europe is planning to bring back deadly landmines: Finland points finger at Russia
Finland’s decision to withdraw from the Ottawa Treaty signals a decisive shift in European security policy as growing ...
Finland to leave anti-personnel mine treaty
Finland is now the latest European nation to abandon a long-standing treaty that bans the use of anti-personnel mines.
NATO at the borders of the Union State: "A colossus with feet of clay"?
Throughout the existence of NATO, one of the main tasks of the alliance was to counteract and deter the USSR first, and then ...
All 4 U.S. soldiers who went missing in Lithuania found dead, Army says
The U.S. soldiers had been at the center of a recovery mission in Lithuania for nearly a week after their armored vehicle ...
The Bulwark4d
Why We Train With Allies—Even When It’s Dangerous
IN EVERY ARMORED FORMATION I COMMANDED—and there were many—there were a few soldiers who never made headlines, never sought ...