Maxime Marquette
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Columns by Maxime Marquette
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DECODING: Structural exhaustion — what the Kiel Institute report really says
The Kiel Institute — the Kiel Institute for the World Economy (IfW), based in Germany — is one of Europe's most reputable economic research…
ANALYSIS: Eighty billion in deficit — Putin's deadly arithmetic
The Kremlin has spent four years insisting that the Russian economy was holding up against Western sanctions with remarkable vitality. State-aligned newspapers published growth…
COMMENTARY: Testing Article 5 — why a Baltic state could trigger everything
There are questions that diplomats avoid raising publicly, because asking them amounts to admitting a fragility one would prefer not to exhibit. Here is…
ANALYSIS: Latvia alerts — drones and missiles, the hybrid war has already begun
Latvia is not a country that cries wolf. It is a NATO and European Union member state, with a civil intelligence service — the…
OPINION: Kaliningrad rehearses its strikes — the Russian threat on our doorstep
There are things the military does that civilians do not watch. Maneuvers. Exercises. "Operations rehearsals." That is precisely what Russia was doing on June…
DECODING: Russian provocation in the Baltics — the scenario NATO dreads
For months, this possibility had been circulating in the hallways of Western defense ministries — whispered, never officially stated, for fear of rattling markets…
REPORT: Gdansk Declaration — the Eastern Flank draws its own iron line
There is something deliberately symbolic about the choice of Gdansk. It is where the Second World War began, where Solidarność lit the fuse that…
ANALYSIS: Quadrupling shells — the West's industrial lag laid bare
When NATO's Deputy Supreme Allied Commander, General Christopher Stringer, publicly calls for a fourfold increase in 155mm shell production ahead of the Ankara summit…
EDITORIAL: Hegseth's six-month review — the blackmail fracturing the alliance
Some announcements change the climate of an alliance. One of them came before the Ankara summit: Pete Hegseth, the American Secretary of Defense in…