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NATO’s call to arms: Time to muscle up ‘at the speed of fear’

1 week ago | washingtonpost.com | Lee Hockstader

NATO’s call to arms: Time to muscle up ‘at the speed of fear’ (washingtonpost.com) NATO’s call to arms: Time to muscle up ‘at the speed of fear’ By Lee Hockstader 2025062012002700 LONDON — NATO chief Mark Rutte visited Britain this month and had a bracing message for his hosts, along with other nations in the alliance: Start bulking up militarily, he said, or "you had better learn to speak Russian." Vladimir Putin isn't about to invade England.
NATO’s call to arms: Time to muscle up ‘at the speed of fear’

1 week ago | almendron.com | Lee Hockstader

NATO chief Mark Rutte visited Britain this month and had a bracing message for his hosts, along with other nations in the alliance: Start bulking up militarily, he said, or “you had better learn to speak Russian”. Vladimir Putin isn’t about to invade England. But don’t forget that, shortly before invading Ukraine in 2022, he did casually threaten then-British Prime Minister Boris Johnson with a missile strike that “would only take a minute”.
Heading to Paris and hungry? Maybe bring some trail mix.

1 week ago | washingtonpost.com | Lee Hockstader

Heading to Paris and hungry? Maybe bring some trail mix. (washingtonpost.com) Heading to Paris and hungry? Maybe bring some trail mix. By Lee Hockstader 2025061710154500 PARIS — More than half a century ago my father was lucky enough to visit Paris, where, he said, you couldn't get a bad meal. Like most clichés, that one probably stood on shaky evidence. But Dad's take was also gospel to the best-known food writers at the time.
Haiti is an object lesson in the costs of global apathy

3 weeks ago | washingtonpost.com | Lee Hockstader

Haiti is an object lesson in the costs of global apathy (washingtonpost.com) Haiti is an object lesson in the costs of global apathy By Lee Hockstader 2025060510455900 Haiti's four-year spiral into chaos is not only the chronicle of a disaster foretold. It was also one of the modern world's most preventable tragedies. Describing Haiti as a "failed state" is an almost comically antiseptic description of the horrific meltdown underway there.
In Poland’s golden hour, a looming threat to Europe’s unity

4 weeks ago | washingtonpost.com | Lee Hockstader

In Poland’s golden hour, a looming threat to Europe’s unity (washingtonpost.com) In Poland’s golden hour, a looming threat to Europe’s unity By Lee Hockstader 2025053012004200 KRAKOW, Poland — In this golden moment of Polish history, why do so many Poles see the future as fraught, grim, even dangerous?
Europe has so far dodged a US-style opioid epidemic. Here’s why

1 month ago | jhnewsandguide.com | Lee Hockstader

There are plenty of unhappy shocks these days for an American who visits the United States after years spent in Europe. But few compare to the jaw-dropping misery I saw last week in the addiction-ravaged wasteland of Philadelphia’s Kensington neighborhood. I went with friends, longtime Philadelphians who know the city well and who warned me that Kensington, for years one of the country’s most notorious open-air drug dens, was a rough place.
Europe has so far dodged a U.S.-style opioid epidemic. Here’s why.

1 month ago | washingtonpost.com | Lee Hockstader

Europe has so far dodged a U.S.-style opioid epidemic. Here’s why. (washingtonpost.com) Europe has so far dodged a U.S.-style opioid epidemic. Here’s why. By Lee Hockstader 2025052212203200 PARIS — There are plenty of unhappy shocks these days for an American who visits the United States after years spent in Europe. But few compare to the jaw-dropping misery I saw last week in the addiction-ravaged wasteland of Philadelphia's Kensington neighborhood.
Europe’s military buildup: A breakneck race that’s not fast enough

1 month ago | washingtonpost.com | Lee Hockstader

Europe’s military buildup: A breakneck race that’s not fast enough (washingtonpost.com) Europe’s military buildup: A breakneck race that’s not fast enough By Lee Hockstader 2025051412324700 STOCKHOLM — Europe's race to rearm is accelerating at warp speed — and not nearly fast enough.
Lee Hockstader: Any US-brokered ‘peace deal’ must not allow Russia to escape accountability for war crimes

1 month ago | independent.ie | Lee Hockstader

Lee Hockstader: Any US-brokered ‘peace deal’ must not allow Russia to escape accountability for war crimesThere are growing fears that a Trump deal would enable Putin to harvest the fruits of his aggressionAn explosion from a ballistic missile lights up the sky over the city during a Russian missile and drone strike, amid Russia's attack on Ukraine in Kyiv, Ukraine last month.
Russia’s war crimes are horrific. The victims deserve justice.

1 month ago | washingtonpost.com | Lee Hockstader

Russia’s war crimes are horrific. The victims deserve justice. (washingtonpost.com) Russia’s war crimes are horrific. The victims deserve justice. By Lee Hockstader 2025050811450200 STOCKHOLM — The suffocating stench of Russian war crimes in Ukraine — now classified as crimes against humanity by a United Nations-mandated commission — seeps from mountains of reports and journalism.