H. Michiel 13 May 2022 (This English translation of Zweden en Finland bij de NATO … was published on Defend Democracy Press) Looking back over the last 30 years, since…
Dangerous gas smell around Ukraine
Herman Michiel (*) 11 February 2022 “If Russia invades Ukraine, the pipeline between Russia and Germany will not become operational. There will be no more Nord Stream 2. We…
Human Rights Day?
10 December 2021 December 10th is ‘Human Rights Day’. On this day in 1948 the Universal Declaration of Human Rights was adopted. It is very cynical that today of…
The election defeat of Die Linke
Herman Michiel (*) 20 October 2021 In the Bundestag elections of 26 September, Germany’s left party Die Linke achieved a dire result. Some 2.3 million people voted for the…
Die Wahlniederlage der Partei Die Linke
Herman Michiel (*) 20. Oktober 2021 Bei den Bundestagswahlen am 26. September hat Die Linke ein katastrophales Ergebnis erzielt. Nur 2,3 Millionen Menschen stimmten für die Partei, 2…
Afghanistan: Drawing the lessons
by Herman Michiel 17 August 2021 We saw Taliban troops parade in the presidential palace in Kabul, from which President Ashraf Ghani fled abroad. The largely US-educated professor and…
Fighter jets as a European project
by Herman Michiel (*) 23 June 2021 You can’t be blamed if the acronym FCAS doesn’t mean anything to you. FCAS stands for ‘Future Combat Air System’, and is…
The selective indignation of the EU
Herman Michiel, 27 May 2021 – European leaders are outraged by the manoeuvre with which Lukashenko handcuffed an opponent. But the selectivity of their indignation shows that they are not…