Emerging Risks

The major threat to the security and prosperity of the West today emanates not from abroad but from its own dire social instability, structural and economic decline, cultural desiccation and elite incompetence which is leading to civil war. It is vital to understand the causes of this and to anticipate the likely conduct and strategic logic of the violent eruptions of civil conflict which loom on the West’s horizon.

So far, the conflict has remained within manageable bounds for the international community, but the prospect of further conflagration is not far off.

Across much of the world, the ideas of a democratic liberal political order, of multilateral international collaboration, and of liberal free-market capitalism are now in retreat.

The chairman of a House Armed Services subcommittee told defense industry leaders to shift from the current peacetime production pace and get the Pentagon on a "war footing."

Finnish President Sauli Niinistö warns Europe to be cautious concerning the risk of escalation of the full-scale Russian war against Ukraine. Source: Niinistö expressed this opinion in an interview for The New York Times, as reported by European Pravda Niinistö thinks that the war against Ukraine will last a long time and even though Russia's invasion of Ukraine in February 2022 was a "wake-up call" for Europe and NATO, now this fact is being gradually forgotten.

Retired Major-General Alexander Vladimirov wrote the Russian “war bible.” His words have weight. Now he has declared that the use of nuclear weapons in the war in Ukraine is inevitable, citing a justification that consigns the principle of deterrence to the history books.

Gatestone Institute senior fellow Gordon Chang sounded the alarm over U.S. policies leading China to strengthen its defenses as tensions remain inflated on the world stage.

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The Air Force is not moving fast enough to prepare for war with China, which is expanding its forces for military aggression in the Asia Pacific region, Air Force Secretary Frank Kendall warned in a r

Taipei tracks at least 143 warplanes and 56 warships entering air defence zone in recent days, and military expert says intensifying pressure from mainland could be form of ‘cognitive warfare’ to make Taiwanese people drop their guard.

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UN chief Antonio Guterres warned nations Monday that he fears the likelihood of further escalation in the Russia-Ukraine conflict means the world is heading towards a "wider war.""I fear the world is not sleepwalking into a wider war.

Putin's recent shift in strategy in Ukraine is likely to have a lasting impact on Europe and the way the war is fought. The conflict threatens to become a lasting, one not just with Ukraine but with the Europe as a whole.

State TV host Margarita Simonyan said in the future Russia may have to produce a more threatening ultimatum that could include nuclear weapons.

Ally of Russian President Vladimir Putin and Deputy chairman of Russia's Security Council Dmitry Medvedev warned NATO allies Thursday that a defeat for Russia in Ukraine could mean nuclear war.

Russian dictator Vladimir Putin, through his close personal friend Viktor Medvedchuk, is threatening Europe with nuclear war, according to an article published by the Russian propaganda newspaper Izvestia on Jan. 16 under the name of the former Ukrainian MP.

The Kremlin on Thursday warned of escalation in Ukraine if the West gives the pro-Western country more weapons capable of striking Russia.  "Potentially, this is extremely dangerous, it will mean bringing the conflict to a whole new level, which, of course, will not bode well from the point of view of global and pan-European security," Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov told reporters.

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Russia "would use a nuclear weapon before it allowed its military to be defeated in the field," retired US Army Brig. Gen. Kevin Ryan told Insider.

The unending Russo-Ukrainian conflict that has added another dark chapter to the European history is now at the threshold of what can be called ‘the most uncalled for moment’, the use of nukes. This has increased the chances of ‘Mutual Assured Destruction’ (MAD) and the catastrophic time for Europe ahead, and the peril looms high with […]

The echoes of history are clear at every juncture of the unfolding conflict of the Russo-Ukrainian war.

Russia is now retreating our of Kherson in what is a major blow to President Putin and his effort to try and conquer Ukraine.

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The more the Kremlin has signalled its readiness to drop a nuclear bomb, the more the rest of the world has sought a reason to believe that it will not.

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A senior official from Russia's Foreign Ministry has warned that Western commercial satellites could become legitimate targets for Moscow if they were involved in the war in Ukraine.