Maxime Marquette
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NATO and the EU urgently demand a stronger defense industry
European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen and NATO Secretary General Mark Rutte co-signed, on July 6, 2026, a joint op-ed in
A billion dollars for a hundred Patriots, the price of European hesitation
Ukraine's Ministry of Defense confirmed on July 2, 2026 that it had taken a first step toward purchasing around one hundred Patriot
Zero ballistic missiles intercepted, the West's silent shame
On the night of July 6, 2026, Ukraine intercepted none of the twenty-nine ballistic and anti-ship missiles fired at it. Zero out
Zelensky lands in Ankara, hands outstretched to Trump and NATO
Ukrainian PresidentVolodymyr Zelensky landed this Tuesday, July 7, in Ankara for the 36th NATO summit, a two-day gathering of leaders from the
The Chinese submarine missile launch that has the whole Pacific worried
On Monday, at 12:01 p.m. local time, the Chinese navy fired a long-range ballistic missile fitted with a dummy warhead from one
The PURL program, the trick that gets Europe to pay for Ukraine
Since July 2025, a quiet but powerful mechanism has been reshaping the military financing of Ukrainian resistance: the Prioritized Ukraine Requirements List,
Do Russian jet-powered drones really outpace Ukrainian interceptors
A video released in early July by the 427th Separate Regiment of Unmanned Systems "Rarog" shows a Ukrainian unit chasing down a
Todd Blanche facing the Senate, an Epstein file that won't go away
Ten Democratic senators, led by Richard J. Durbin, ranking member of the Judiciary Committee, sent a letter dated July 1, 2026 to
On the Iran-Pakistan border, a regime flexing its muscle
I can't claim to have walked along the Iran-Pakistan border, nor to have seen with my own eyes the troop movements described