While Tartus and Khmeimim remain active, Russia’s dispersed airbase network in Libya, including Maaten al-Sarra, is now more critical for power projection. These sites facilitate Africa Corps deployments and arms flows, complicating U.S.-led efforts to unify Libya and stabilize the Sahel region.
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The 2025 NSS marks a fundamental departure from post-WWII American leadership, embracing a multipolar order that risks fragmenting the transatlantic community. As Washington refocuses on the Western Hemisphere and China, Europe must urgently transform the EU into a credible military power to avoid strategic irrelevance.
Russia’s friendship with Iran has limits. When crisis hit, Moscow offered rhetoric, not real support, revealing a partnership of convenience, not commitment.
Europe faces a moment of reckoning as U.S. support wanes. To sustain Ukraine and defend its own sovereignty, Europe must overcome internal divisions, invest seriously in its own capabilities, and prove it has the collective will to stand without America.
Europe must overcome internal divisions and strategic dependency to provide Ukraine sustained military and economic support. The continent’s collective willpower is now the decisive factor in determining whether Ukraine survives as a sovereign state or falls under lasting Russian domination.
Russia’s shadow fleet of hundreds of aging, uninsured tankers is a strategic and environmental hazard. Countering it requires modern “commerce raiding”—using open-source intelligence, lawfare, and sanctions to disrupt maritime trade, not direct military confrontation, to cripple the Kremlin’s war economy.