Maxime Marquette
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Columns by Maxime Marquette
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PROFILE: Volodymyr Zelensky, the President Who Made Drones His Ambassadors
There is an image that captures the evolution of Volodymyr Zelensky since 2022: this president elected without prior military experience, an actor turned head…
EDITORIAL: Zelensky Hero, Putin Tyrant — Why Moral Clarity Remains a Weapon
There is an intellectual reflex I encounter frequently among intelligent, well-informed people: the refusal to make sharp moral judgments about the protagonists of a…
ANALYSIS: The Axis of Aggressors — Russia, China, Iran, North Korea: One Front?
The Foundation for Defense of Democracies has just published a volume whose title alone demands attention: Axis of Aggressors. Not a poetic metaphor —…
COMMENTARY: Stringer and NATO "Cohesion" — The Honest Conversations of Ankara
There are moments when a senior officer says something so direct that it stops you cold — not from shock, but from the sheer…
ANALYSIS: Hungary Is No Longer Alone — The New Geometry of European Blockades
Ever since Viktor Orbán turned Hungary into the European Union's principal institutional sparring partner, the image had crystallized: one holdout against twenty-six. That comforting…
REPORT: Vtorovo Struck Three Times — Ukraine's Oil War Fought at 700 km
The Vtorovo pumping station appeared in no geopolitical handbook until just a few months ago. This industrial complex, located in the Russian region of…
DECODING: Russian technology transfers to Pyongyang — submarines, air defense, and electronic warfare
Since the start of Russia's full-scale invasion of Ukraine in February 2022, the world has learned to document the arms flows between Moscow and…
ANALYSIS: Vance and the Iran deal "foundation" — cautious optimism or strategic blindness?
The world held its breath in mid-June 2026. The United States and Iran initialed a 14-point memorandum of understanding aimed at ending the armed…
EDITORIAL: The West Must Remain the Center of the World: Lesson from Kyiv's Night
On June 25, 2026, shortly before 9 p.m., ballistic missile alert sirens wailed across the sky of Kyiv. Russian Iskander-M missiles were streaking toward…