Maxime Marquette
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Columns by Maxime Marquette
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Rheinmetall Is Arming Ukraine, and That Is Exactly What Must Happen
On June 30, 2026, German defense giant Rheinmetall announced it had secured a new Ukrainian contract to supply 155-millimeter artillery ammunition and
LongCat-2.0, the Chinese Alarm Bell the West Refuses to Hear
On June 30, 2026, Chinese delivery giant Meituan announced, almost quietly, the open-source release of LongCat-2.0, an artificial intelligence model with 1.6
39.7 trillion in debt the day America turned 250
On July 4, 2026, while the United States celebrated with great fanfare the 250th anniversary of its independence, the American federal debt
SpaceX denies the AI phone, but Musk's silence speaks loudly
On July 1, 2026, the Wall Street Journal published a report that immediately set social media and financial circles ablaze: SpaceX reportedly
Meta becomes an AI vendor, a confession disguised as strategy
On July 1, 2026, Meta Platforms confirmed it is developing a new cloud business called Meta Compute, designed to resell its surplus
Five years of Merovingian reenactment at Orville, what the facts confirm
On July 5, 2026, the archaeological site of Orville, in Louvres, in the Val-d'Oise, celebrated the fifth anniversary of its annual historical
Measles in America, the worst year in 35 years is not fate
I am writing this letter because the numbers coming out of the CDC these past few weeks deserve a moment of pause,
The Defense budget held hostage by Trump's voter-ID obsession
On June 30, 2026, the U.S. House of Representatives sent its members home two days earlier than planned for the July 4
In the Netherlands, Defense wants veto power over the software that flies its drones
On Friday, July 3, 2026, the Dutch Ministry of Defense announced a three-year strategic partnership with Amsterdam-based company Intelic, worth more than