Maxime Marquette
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Columns by Maxime Marquette
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ESSAY: €45 Billion for Ukraine — Europe Pays Its Moral and Strategic Debt
The city of Gdańsk, symbol of Polish resistance against oppression, birthplace of Solidarity — this choice of venue for the Ukraine Reconstruction Conference of…
ANALYSIS: Lebanon, Israel, and the Regular Army — The Fragile Gamble of an American Framework Agreement
From June 23 to 26, 2026, Israeli, Lebanese, and American negotiators gathered in Washington, then the teams worked remotely during an unplanned fifth day…
COLUMN: Trump, Tariffs, and the Constitution — When the Supreme Court Reminds Everyone Who Runs America
On February 20, 2026, the United States Supreme Court issued one of the most important economic decisions of the decade: the "reciprocal" tariffs imposed…
ANALYSIS: AUKUS Deploys Its Drone Swarms — the Indo-Pacific Enters the Age of Autonomous Warfare
There were no official cameras, no high-profile press conferences. On the grassy plains of Salisbury Plain, in England, Australian, American, and British soldiers flew…
EDITORIAL: The $55 Billion Autonomous Drone Revolution — the West Must Win or Lose Everything
The figure is staggering: $55 billion by 2032. That is the projected size of the global autonomous defense drone market — some independent analyses…
ANALYSIS: Kostyantynivka, 53 versus 3 — what Madyar's data reveals about the war
On June 23, 2026, Yuriy Madyar, deputy commander of Ukraine's 19th Army Corps, published data that military analysts immediately described as among the most…
INVESTIGATION: Iran on the Strait of Hormuz — the silent maneuver changing the Gulf
It measures barely 39 kilometers at its narrowest point. Every day, before the war struck, roughly 20% of the world's oil supply passed through…
ANALYSIS: Trump pulls the 100% tariff on digital taxes — Europe in the crosshairs
On Friday, June 26, 2026, late in the afternoon, Donald Trump published a message on Truth Social that immediately rattled chancelleries across the Old…
COLUMN: Beijing-Washington, the great paradox — negotiating a tariff peace while Trump threatens 100%
Within the space of less than forty-eight hours, the world's two largest economies sent two perfectly contradictory signals about the state of their trade…