Maxime Marquette
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Columns by Maxime Marquette
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DECODING: How the West Is Structuring Its Deterrence Against Four Threats
The West no longer faces a single isolated threat, but a strategic convergence between four authoritarian regimes: Russia, China, Iran, and North Korea.
ANALYSIS: The West Reasserts Its Centrality With $1.8 Trillion
Combined defense spending across NATO's 32 members is projected to reach $1.81 trillion in 2026, according to the Alliance's latest defense spending estimates published…
ANALYSIS: Air Defense, the Achilles' Heel Kyiv Can No Longer Ignore
On July 6, 2026, Ukrainian air defenses shot down none of the 23 ballistic missiles fired by Russia, according to air force data cited…
REPORT: How Kyiv Is Methodically Draining the Oil That Funds Putin
On the night of July 11 into July 12, 2026, Ukrainian forces carried out one of their most massive operations against Russian oil logistics…
DECODING: The Industrial Battle Putin Cannot Win
On July 8, 2026, in Ankara, American President Donald Trump promised Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky something Kyiv had been demanding for months: a license…
EDITORIAL: Zelensky, the tightrope walker who must please both Washington and Brussels
There is a diplomatic exercise that few leaders in the world master with as much forced consistency as Volodymyr Zelensky.
DECODING: Ukraine's economy refuses to bend under Russian strikes
Some images contradict, almost by their sheer existence, a narrative Moscow has been trying to sell for months. While Ukrainian drones turn Russian refineries…
REPORT: Hormuz shut down, the global bill nobody wants to pay
Some sentences alone are enough to send the price of a barrel soaring before a single ship changes course. On July 12, 2026, the…
ANALYSIS: Iran isolated but still defiant after the American response
In the days following the American strikes of July 11 to 12, 2026, against roughly 140 targets linked to the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps…