Wall St. Insights NATO was founded in 1949 for the collective self-defense of the Western allied countries against Soviet ...

Since 1949, NATO has been preparing to defend Western Europe from a Russian attack. Until 1989 Russia had massed several hundred thousand troops in East Germany along with several thousand tanks, most ...

The conclusion of the Cold War was a great victory for the policy of restraint and deterrence, termed “containment.” Every ...

Russia relationship has survived, out of shared instincts for sovereignty. It remains one of the world’s most quietly ...

Venezuelan reform leader Maria Corina Machado represents the movement to overcome Venezuela's economic and political ...

Catherine Connolly, an independent socialist, was elected Ireland's next president in a landslide on Saturday. Connolly, 68, ...

Ukraine was part of the Soviet Union and suffered millions of starvation deaths in the 1930s as the Soviet Government ordered nearly all Ukrainian crops exported, leaving little food for the ...

August 2025 marked the 80th anniversary of the 1945 atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki. Just a month after the attacks ...

At a meeting with the Nato chief, Trump had a model of his new, disco-and-waltzing-friendly White House ballroom sitting on a ...

Europe vows to boost defense amid Russia’s threat, but national divisions could derail efforts to turn promises into real military power.

In her radical socialism and vociferous support for minorities, Catherine Connolly represents precisely that spirit of ...