Mila Tanghe

1 week ago | cepa.org | Stephen Twitty |Mila Tanghe

“All of them are pretty doggone essential with what we have to do as a nation,” said Lt. Gen. (Ret.) Stephen Twitty, a distinguished fellow at CEPA and former Deputy Commander of US European Command, when asked about the most critical US bases in Europe. “Our military bases in Europe provide a strategic depth,” he added — in terms of influence, deterrence, logistics, and because the US doesn’t fight wars on its homeland, but away from it.

1 month ago | cepa.org | Julius Strauss |Ruth Deyermond |Mila Tanghe |Marija Golubeva

It makes for haunting viewing.  A Russian soldier, almost certainly a 32-year-old father-of-two-daughters called Oleg Yakovlev from the city of Saratov, shouts “Film me! Film me!” as a Ukrainian captive, one of six who have surrendered, walks slowly away from him. As a member of his squad films, Yakovlev raises his Kalashnikov assault rifle and riddles the unarmed Ukrainian with bullets.