Maxime Marquette
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Columns by Maxime Marquette
4,540 columns published
ESSAY: Transatlanticism as a Convenience Partnership — and Why That Is Enough, for Now
A convenience partnership. The formula is honest and a little sad. NATO was founded on the principle that democracies sharing common values would defend…
COLUMN: Sybiha Sounds the Alarm — Kyiv's Night of Horror and the West's Air Defense Delay
Sybiha's sentence — "Russia has no right to strike Ukraine, Ukraine has every right to respond" — deserves to be read carefully. This is…
OPINION: Ukraine Strikes Ufa Twice — 1,300 km from the Front, One-Third of Russian Refineries Offline
A refinery at 1,300 km. Lubricants that armored vehicles won't have. Missiles that a Penza factory won't be able to build. This opinion piece…
PROFILE: Kateryna Lykhohliad — the 425th Regiment Journalist Soldiers Called an Enemy
There is something chilling in the symmetry of this story: a journalist who documents real deaths in a real regiment ends up designated as…
INVESTIGATION: Tytan Technologies Opens a German Factory to Produce 3,000 Anti-Drone Interceptors per Month
There is something remarkably clear-eyed in this industrial logic: answer quantity with quantity, autonomy with autonomy. The war in Ukraine forced engineers to abandon…
COMMENTARY: North Korean Coal Thrives in the Shadows — When the UN Looks Away
50,000 to 80,000 people condemned to work in mines because they were born into the wrong family at the wrong moment in history —…
ANALYSIS: The Vyrivniuvach Bomb Enters Combat — Ukraine Rebalances the Air War
Watching a Ukrainian weapon go from exhibition to operational in a matter of weeks is to understand that industrial warfare has its own rules…
FACT-CHECK: 721,300 Russian Soldiers and 35,000 Losses Per Month — What These Numbers Really Mean
In this war, numbers are weapons. Russia minimizes its losses. Ukraine has an interest in showing that resistance works. NATO has an interest in…
OPEN LETTER: Ukraine, Lasers, and Interceptor Drones — The Silent Revolution in Air Defense
What Ukraine is doing with interceptor drones is not merely a tactical response to a tactical threat. It is proof that a nation fighting…