The Kremlin does not need the Alternative für Deutschland (AfD) to govern to achieve the victory it seeks in Germany. It needs only the party’s electoral strength to trap exhausted incumbents in increasingly brittle exclusion coalitions that struggle to sustain rearmament, support for Ukraine, and Germany’s long-term security commitments.

By Thomas O Falk

Andy Burnham has entered Downing Street at a moment when British bases are supporting an ongoing American war. U.S. aircraft operate from RAF Fairford in Gloucestershire and Diego Garcia in the Indian Ocean under an authorization Keir Starmer granted in March. Burnham did not choose it, yet he now owns it.

By Thomas O Falk

Keir Starmer’s defense spending plan is at war with his own vision. He had called drones and autonomous systems the “defining technology of modern warfare.” Yet, under his plan, those devices receive far less funding than the flagship program, a crewed stealth fighter due for service in the late 2030s.

By Thomas O Falk

Keir Starmer announced his resignation as prime minister today, becoming the sixth British leader since 2016 to leave Downing Street before completing a full term. His departure clears the way for Andy Burnham, the former mayor of Greater Manchester, to become Britain’s seventh prime minister in a decade.

By Thomas O Falk

Wars often end with agreements that appear more important than they ultimately prove to be. The U.S.–Iranian memorandum of understanding may be one such accord. Indeed, the MoU’s significance lies less in its contents than in what it reveals about the balance of power in the Middle East.

By Thomas O Falk

Britain’s current impasse goes well beyond Keir Starmer’s fragile position against a rising right-wing challenge. Beneath the Westminster drama is a deeper structural problem: elevated borrowing costs are not just a reaction to political instability but a judgment on the long-term sustainability of the UK’s fundamental economic model.

By Thomas O Falk

King Charles III and Queen Camilla arrived in Washington in late April for a four-day state visit framed around the 250th anniversary of American independence. But the political objective was less comfortable than the itinerary.

By Thomas O Falk

Keir Starmer’s problem is not that Labour lost votes. It is that it lost them for different reasons, to different parties, and in different parts of the country. That is what makes the local election results more than a temporary electoral setback. The coalition of voters behind Labour’s 2024 landslide are not merely disappointed.

By Thomas O Falk

Germany is not merely rearming, nor is it seeking the role of an autonomous great power. It is redefining the function of the Bundeswehr as an enabling instrument for European deterrence within NATO. In this framework, military power is measured not by size alone, but by the capacity to make collective defense operational.

By Thomas O Falk

Europe is often described as fragmented, but that is only part of the story. The deeper problem is that several crises now converge within the same decision-making structures, forcing trade-offs and exposing the limits of EU’s capacity to translate shared priorities into coordinated action. The union remains united in principle but divided in practice.

By Thomas O Falk

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Britain’s Gamble: Preserving Access, Reducing Exposure

Britain’s Fragmentation and Labour’s Dilemma

Germany’s Gamble to Make Europe Defensible

Overlapping Crises Strain EU’s Strategic Coherence

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