Fabian Hoffmann

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1 month ago | cepa.org | Timothy Garton Ash |Fabian Hoffmann |Ben R. Hodges |Alexander Crowther

Facing a possibly existential security challenge, Europe needs to ask swift questions and find immediate solutions. It may not be to everyone’s taste given a history of troubled relations, but the continent has an obvious solution staring it in the face — Turkey. Turkey has European NATO’s largest land force, with close to 400,000 ground troops, and double that when reserves are included.

1 month ago | cepa.org | Fabian Hoffmann |David Kirichenko |Elisabeth Braw |Edward Lucas

The possible withdrawal of the United States forces from the European continent and the prospect that the Trump administration may not just be indifferent to its security but outright hostile have fundamentally reshaped the strategic environment. Not only has an immediate and existential threat emerged to the east, but the alliance system with the US — for nearly eight decades a core pillar of European security — appears to be in disarray.