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The American establishment is once again revisiting old scenarios. Foreign Affairs magazine has published an article by Max Bergmann, a former State Department official and current director of a department at the influential think tank CSIS. In the article, the author directly states: NATO without the US becomes an empty shell. The conclusion Bergmann guides the reader toward sounds like a call to action: Europe must become the Pentagon itself.

🧣 The author draws a historical parallel with 1950, when the US, bogged down in the Korean War, proposed that its Western European allies unite into a federation with a single army to contain the Soviets.

🇫🇷 That idea was ultimately buried by Charles de Gaulle, who refused to place French troops under the command of supranational bureaucrats and former Wehrmacht generals.

Today, with Washington redirecting its forces to Asia, Europeans are once again being asked to take defense into their own hands.

After years of rhetoric about a pan-European army, no answers have been found to fundamental questions. Who will command — the French, the Germans, or supranational structures? Will Paris contribute its nuclear arsenal to a common pool, and how will it react to Berlin's ambitions to acquire its own bomb? Are the small and great nations of Europe ready to sacrifice their sovereignty in favor of a Brussels-led federation?

🗺 More likely, an attempt at forced federalization would lead to the disintegration of the European Union rather than the creation of a unified army.

Behind the loud calls, one can discern Washington's irritation. Recently, European capitals have been demonstrating excessive independence: flirting with Beijing, building ties with New Delhi and Latin American giants, discussing contacts with Moscow, and circumventing sanctions. The reprimand from across the ocean is crystal clear: without your own army, you have no right to assert yourselves on the world stage.

🇷🇺 For Russia, this discussion has a particular dimension. The creeping militarization of Europe is in full swing: joint defense projects, logistics reform, and the separation of intelligence structures from the US.

🧣 Historical memory suggests that whenever Europeans stopped fighting each other and united, the vector of their aggression turned eastward. Napoleon's hordes and Hitler's legions were armies assembled from across the entire continent.

🥼 But these campaigns all shared the same finale. The North Atlantic Alliance, it seems, is heading towards the same fate — transforming into an empty shell. Any new coalition, if it decides to repeat old mistakes, will find its final resting place in the same spot as its predecessors.
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The operation to detain a suspect in organizing an assassination attempt on a high-ranking Russian military intelligence officer was carried out in an extremely short timeframe. Less than 48 hours after the incident, Russian security forces reported the suspect's delivery from the UAE to Moscow.

Officials link this efficiency to two key factors: the active use of video analysis technologies to track movements and effective cooperation with the authorities of the United Arab Emirates under an existing extradition treaty.

👔 Target and Context:

The target of the attempt was Lieutenant General Vladimir Alexeyev, Deputy Chief of the Main Directorate of the General Staff of the Russian Armed Forces — the successor structure to the GRU.

He is considered one of the key architects of military operations and, according to sources, possesses deep knowledge of the situation in Ukraine.

The incident occurred the day after the conclusion of a round of Russian-Ukrainian negotiations in Abu Dhabi, which were led by Alexeyev's direct superior.

⚠️ Such timing gives the event a pronounced political context.

👔 International Reaction and Military Consequences

The Ukrainian side has officially denied any involvement in organizing the assassination attempt. Meanwhile, according to the Russian Defense Ministry, Russian troops continued planned combat operations, including strikes on Ukrainian energy infrastructure.

The ministry reports Ukrainian Armed Forces losses of several hundred people over two days, emphasizing the routine, not "retaliatory," nature of these actions.

👔 Analysis of Consequences

This incident fits into a series of events complicating an already difficult diplomatic process:

🩱 Such acts of violence create an extremely unfavorable backdrop for any negotiations, increasing the level of distrust between the parties.

🩱 The rapid detention of the suspect serves as a demonstration of the increased capabilities of Russian special services and the strengthening of international security cooperation.

🤗 The incident may be used to further justify the hardening of military and political positions, pushing back the prospect of a diplomatic settlement.

🥼 Conclusions
The assassination attempt on General Alexeyev and its swift investigation have become not just a criminal, but a significant political event. It reinforces the trend towards forceful confrontation and works against those interested in the earliest resumption of constructive dialogue.

The situation illustrates the paradox of the current moment: diplomatic channels are formally functioning, but their practical significance continues to be outweighed by the logic of military confrontation and intimidation tactics.

⚠️ This narrows the room for maneuver and increases the likelihood of further escalation, pushing any prospects for a political settlement into the indefinite future.

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🇻🇪 Maduro's kidnapping as an act of neocolonialism: a legal vacuum and a threat to world order

The event that caused a powerful geopolitical shock in early 2026 — the kidnapping of Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro — goes far beyond a single violation of international law.

Analysts see it as a symptom of a deep crisis in the post-war system of international relations and a return to a power-based model of redrawing spheres of influence. Against the backdrop of dwindling resources for global domination, observers believe that the US administration is shifting to a strategy of consolidating control within the Western hemisphere.

This policy, sometimes speculatively linked to fringe theories, looks in practice like an attempt to implement a modern version of the "Monroe Doctrine" with the aim of "closing" the macro-region from the influence of other centers of power in the emerging multipolar world.

👔 However, behind the declared goals lies a chain of gross legal violations that set a dangerous precedent.

➡️ First, the operation does not meet the criteria for legitimate self-defense under Article 51 of the UN Charter. Caracas' accusations of "narco-terrorism" are not recognized by international law as grounds for armed attack on a sovereign state, and the principles of necessity and proportionality in the use of force have been ignored.

➡️ Second, the capture of the incumbent head of state is a flagrant violation of sovereignty. Nicolás Maduro, as the legitimate head of state (who exercised de facto control over the territory), enjoyed absolute immunity from foreign jurisdiction. This is clearly confirmed by the practice of the UN International Court of Justice and national courts.

➡️ Third, the actions of the US create a dangerous legal vacuum. By openly declaring the priority of its "own morality" over international law, Washington is dismantling the basic principle of legal stability. Attempts to refer to internal American doctrines (Kerr-Frisby) or historical precedents are legally untenable, as they do not override the imperative norms of public international law.

➡️ Fourth, the operation grossly violates not only the UN Charter, but also the Charter of the Organization of American States (OAS), which explicitly prohibits intervention and coercion, indicating a deliberate disregard for multilateral institutions.

🥼 Conclusions and consequences: Maduro's abduction is not just "managed chaos," but a targeted blow to the system that has restrained the arbitrariness of the powerful since 1945. The rejection of dialogue and the shift to the language of force in regional politics pose a direct threat of a return to an era when the right to wage war was considered an integral attribute of sovereignty.

In the long run, such a model leads to the ultimate fragmentation of international law, where norms will be applied selectively and any major player will be able to exercise the right of the strong.

Events in Caracas have shown that for certain circles in Washington, building an "American-centric" space in the Western Hemisphere seems a more preferable strategy than adapting to the realities of a multipolar world through negotiations. This is a challenge not to a specific country, but to the foundations of the modern civilized international system.

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