Day 937.

Today, we analyse last weekend's Yalta European Strategy (YES) conference, report on another Ukrainian incursion into Russia, and hear from Central Asia where German Chancellor Olaf Scholz is taking his first visit to the region.

Articles Referenced:

Planning for a Post-American NATO (Phillips P. O’Brien and Edward Stringer in Foreign Affairs):

https://www.foreignaffairs.com/europe/planning-post-american-nato

Aliona Hlivco on how NATO could come apart (The Telegraph):

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2024/05/29/putin-plot-to-destroy-nato-reaching-its-climax/

Poem by Shelley:

Music, when soft voices die,

Vibrates in the memory—

Odours, when sweet violets sicken,

Live within the sense they quicken.

Rose leaves, when the rose is dead,

Are heaped for the belovèd's bed;

And so thy thoughts, when thou art gone,

Love itself shall slumber on.

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