Romania Faces Possible Nuclear Reactor Shutdown as Danube Water Levels Continue to Fall

Romania’s state-owned nuclear power producer Nuclearelectrica could be forced to shut down its last operating reactor at the Cernavodă Nuclear Power Plant as early as Thursday, Aug. 13, if water levels in the Danube River continue to decline, officials said on Tuesday. The warning comes as southeastern Europe experiences a prolonged heatwave and severe drought […]

Its Russia’s Geopolitical Sovereignty vs. NATO Expansion

Its Russia’s Geopolitical Sovereignty vs. NATO Expansion

The West’s narrative frames Russia as the aggressor, but from a realist standpoint, NATO’s eastward expansion since the 1990s directly threatened Russia’s security sphere. Promises made to Gorbachev that NATO would not move “one inch eastward” were broken repeatedly as former Warsaw Pact countries and even Soviet republics were absorbed. Russia views this as encirclement, […]