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Jan 10, 2025 | 
aei.org | Giselle Donnelly
OLIGARCHY GETS A BAD RAP. Elon Musk, Vivek Ramaswamy, Peter Thiel, and their ilk are perhaps more accurately styled as plutocrats, for they have few accomplishments other than their wealth to recommend them as civic or political leaders.
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Jan 10, 2025 | 
thebulwark.com | Giselle Donnelly
OLIGARCHY GETS A BAD RAP. Elon Musk, Vivek Ramaswamy, Peter Thiel, and their ilk are perhaps more accurately styled as plutocrats, for they have few accomplishments other than their wealth to recommend them as civic or political leaders.
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Dec 20, 2024 | 
thebulwark.com | Giselle Donnelly
IN 1981, THE REAGAN ADMINISTRATION rolled out the first edition of what would become an annual publication: Soviet Military Power. Written under the aegis of the Defense Intelligence Agency, the 100-page assessment was chock full of vivid paintings of Soviet military hardware and installations and jam-packed with charts and graphs, all presented in a lurid, fire-engine-red design scheme. Thirty-six thousand copies were printed.
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Dec 12, 2024 | 
thebulwark.com | Giselle Donnelly
BISMARCK PROBABLY DID NOT REALLY SAY that “God had a special providence for fools, drunkards, and the United States,” but the aphorism has survived because it so often appears true. We are at such a moment now. The combination of Eastern Europeans’ refusal to submit to Vladimir Putin’s imperialist ambitions and the fracturing of Iran’s “Axis of Resistance” proxies has created a huge window of geopolitical opportunity that the Biden administration did very little to create.
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Oct 3, 2024 | 
aei.org | Giselle Donnelly
EXPLODING PAGERS, THE STRIKES THAT KILLED Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah and Iranian Gen. Mohammad Reza Zahedi, raids into southern Lebanon, Iranian retaliatory missile attacks: To many eyes, it appears that the greater Middle East is being sucked up in a cycle of escalation. “The long-feared ‘wider war,’” declares New York Times reporter David Sanger, “is here.”In the narrow sense, this is undeniably true. But focusing on recent battles obscures that a big, wide war has been here for decades.
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Oct 3, 2024 | 
thebulwark.com | Giselle Donnelly
EXPLODING PAGERS, THE STRIKES THAT KILLED Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah and Iranian Gen. Mohammad Reza Zahedi, raids into southern Lebanon, Iranian retaliatory missile attacks: To many eyes, it appears that the greater Middle East is being sucked up in a cycle of escalation. “The long-feared ‘wider war,’” declaresNew York Times reporter David Sanger, “is here.”In the narrow sense, this is undeniably true. But focusing on recent battles obscures that a big, wide war has been here for decades.
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Jul 17, 2024 | 
aei.org | Dalibor Rohac |Giselle Donnelly |Iulia Joja |Kira Rudik
Though Ukraine’s ‘irreversible path’ towards NATO membership was announced at the NATO 75 conference, a lack of more concrete actions left supporters of Ukraine feeling disappointed. On this episode of The Eastern Front, Giselle, Dalibor, and Iulia welcome Kira Rudik, a Ukrainian member of parliament and leader of the Holos party to discuss the Ukrainian reaction to the NATO summit. What message was Russia sending with its bombing of the children’s hospital?
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Jul 8, 2024 | 
aei.org | Dalibor Rohac |Giselle Donnelly |Iulia Joja |Todor Tagarev
Bulgaria is an important member of NATO’s eastern flank, with a multinational battle group stationed there and a role in securing the Black Sea. On this episode of The Eastern Front, Giselle, Dalibor, and Iulia welcome Todor Tagarev, the former minister of defense of Bulgaria to discuss his insights ahead of the upcoming NATO summit. Is NATO focused enough on its Eastern flank? What role does Bulgaria play in NATO’s security? What positive developments can we expect from the NATO at 75 conference?
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Jul 3, 2024 | 
aei.org | Dalibor Rohac |Giselle Donnelly |Iulia Joja
Facing coordinated aggression from Russia, China, and Iran, NATO must update its strategy to counter the threats facing the alliance and its allies. On this episode of The Eastern Front, Giselle, Dalibor, and Iulia detail the plan for NATO’s strategy moving forward that they outlined in their new report NATO Beyond 75: The Task That Remains Before US. How does NATO benefit US national interests? What would good strategic policy in NATO look like?
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Jun 26, 2024 | 
aei.org | Dalibor Rohac |Giselle Donnelly |Iulia Joja
Ahead of the NATO summit, Ukraine’s potential future membership in NATO and its implications for regional security is being hotly debated. On this episode of The Eastern Front, Giselle, Dalibor, and Iulia report their insights from Dalibor’s recent travels to Chisinau, Moldova and Odessa, Ukraine. How are demographic declines impacting these cities? What are the roadblocks to NATO and EU membership in countries like Moldova, Georgia and Ukraine?
