Maxime Marquette
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Columns by Maxime Marquette
4,540 columns published
Record EU-US trade hides a very real industrial fracture
Introduction: a record number that deceives too easily
Nine Democratic governors sound the alarm on Trump's postal voting plan
Introduction: a letter that says out loud what Washington whispers
Only 57,000 jobs created in June, the US economy sputters
Introduction: a number that breaks the spring's momentum
Trump says Iran is folding, then insults Jews who vote Democrat
Introduction: two sentences, one man, one bout of vertigo
ESSAY: Finland opens the door to NATO nuclear weapons — and Europe follows
We need to name what is actually happening: a series of countries on NATO's eastern flank — countries that once shared the conviction that…
COLUMN: Donetsk airport, from the Cyborgs' defense to Russia's Geran-3 launch pad
The Cyborgs' airport becoming the home base of Russian drones — there is no more brutal symbol to measure the gap between the heroic…
INVESTIGATION: Hunting the Msta-S — how Ukrainian drones neutralize Russian artillery
A 65 percent increase in one year in the destruction of Russian artillery: that figure deserves a pause. This is not luck. It is…
COMMENTARY: Russia exports more oil and earns less — the war economy in a spiral
4.13 million barrels per day at sea, $1.9 billion in revenue: these numbers tell a story Putin does not want his citizens to hear.…
REPORT: The Prymary unit strikes Crimea — radar, locomotives, and fuel tankers reduced to ash
There is something methodical, almost artisanal, about the Prymary unit's work. It does not strike at random — it dismantles the nervous system of…