We shouldn’t allow Russia to define Georgia – said Lt. General Ben Hodges, former Commanding General of the US Armed Forces while in Europe at the 5th Tbilisi International Conference jointly organized by the McCain Institute and the Economic Policy Research Center.

The artist received a lavish welcome when she returned to Belgrade, Serbia, the city of her birth, for her first exhibition there in nearly 50 years.

Seventy years ago, after the experience of two world wars and centuries of conflict on the European continent, twelve countries came together to preserve peace and safeguard their freedom. Based on a shared commitment to each other, they signed the North Atlantic Treaty in 1949—establishing a binding covenant between North Americans and Europeans. Decades later, the defeat of European communism between 1989 and 1991 was a ringing validation of the faith that allies had placed in each other—as well as the aspirations of formerly captive peoples who desired to live free.

STUTTGART, Germany — A new NATO command focused on speeding up the movement of allied troops and tanks around Europe has reached “initial operating capability,” the alliance said.

Rather than distributing military burdens equitably, Washington’s rollbacks weaken both the United States and its allies.