Maxime Marquette
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Columns by Maxime Marquette
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OPINION: Russian GPS-Jamming Satellites — Moscow Launches Its Invisible War from Space
On June 5, 2026, the New York Times revealed what navigation and defense experts had suspected for years: Russian satellites belonging to the missile-launch…
PROFILE: Spies from Beijing and Moscow — the United Kingdom, a global intelligence battlefield
On June 18, 2026, a British court convicted two men for spying on behalf of China. This verdict arrived in a documented context of…
INVESTIGATION: Murder of a Russian dissident in Poland — Moscow strikes at the heart of Europe
On June 8, 2026, Semyon Skrepetsky, a 44-year-old Russian dissident, was shot dead in a city in eastern Poland, near the Belarusian border. This…
COMMENTARY: Gazprom Germania, the time bomb Moscow had buried beneath German soil
On June 24, 2026, investigators from the German Federal Prosecution Office descended simultaneously on Berlin and Frankfurt. Not for a routine corruption case or…
EDITORIAL: The Starmer Plot and 192 Attacks — Putin Declares War on Europe
On June 19, 2026, a British court convicted two men for having set fire to properties belonging to Prime Minister Keir Starmer. What could…
REPORT: The Belarusian Spy in Toulouse — How Russia Films Our Drone Factories
On June 3, 2026, agents of the General Directorate for Internal Security detained a 48-year-old man born in Belarus, near Toulouse. The scene belongs…
DECODING: Lithuania — Anti-Drone Ammunition at €2 Per Round to Hold NATO's Skies
June 2026. In the Kaunas district, Lithuania, the state-owned Giraitė factory has launched production of ammunition that may seem unremarkable at first glance: cartridges…
ANALYSIS: EDIP — 83 Proposals and €165 Million to Rebuild Europe's Ammunition Arsenal
On June 16, 2026, the first call for proposals under the European Defence Industry Programme — EDIP, for European Defence Industry Programme — recorded…
FACT-CHECK: ELSA — Six European Nations and a Common Missile, Separating Fact from Fiction
In February 2026, six European nations signed a letter of intent to jointly develop a long-range loitering cruise missile under the ELSA initiative —…