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With his recent comments on NATO, Donald Trump shocked the Western world. Is the U.S. preparing to abandon its allies? Europe finally seems to be considering a future in which the American nuclear umbrella no longer exists.

The worldwide peace movement after the end of the Second World War, and especially Germany’s (“Never again war!”), set out fundamentally to end wars as a means of conflict resolution. This goal is shared by all people of good will, as expressed in the United Nations Charter of 1945.

A look back—and ahead—at the arc of cooperation between Japan and Europe.

As the world begins 2023, the geopolitical situation around the world is not bright. In Europe, the Russia-Ukraine War has dragged on for nearly a year, while the prospects of an escalation are stoking international security anxieties. In East Asia, North Korea threatens to conduct a seventh nuclear test and perfect its ICBM capability to place the U.S. mainland in its crosshairs.

The house searches are meant to criminalise and intimidate peaceful protest, civil disobedience and other forms of resistance.

Putins war has unleashed a debate in Berlin that has been taboo for decades: Does Europe need a share nuclear deterrence of its own?

To tyrants like Vladimir Putin, restraint is only an invitation to escalate further.

Germans are in shock. Few people really thought that an invasion of Ukraine was possible, perhaps because of the historical relationship between Germany and Russia, DW's Jens Thurau writes.

Last Monday, NATO held its yearly summit in Brussels, where heads of state and Foreign and Defense Ministers gathered to discuss the general outlines of - Bas Spliet for Antiwar.com Original