Maxime Marquette
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Columns by Maxime Marquette
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ANALYSIS: Moscow's Kapotnya refinery offline until 2027 — Ukraine strikes at the heart of Russia's war economy
On June 16 and 18, 2026, Ukraine struck the Kapotnya refinery — Moscow's largest — with a precision and persistence that left
COLUMN: THE WEST MUST REMAIN THE CENTER — WHAT ONE WEEK IN JUNE 2026 REVEALS
The week of June 17 to 24, 2026 could have passed like any ordinary week in the continuous flow of international news. It was…
REPORT: GCAP — THE FIGHTER OF THE FUTURE REDRAWING THE WESTERN ALLIANCE TO 2035
In December 2022, the United Kingdom, Italy and Japan signed a founding agreement to jointly develop the Global Combat Air Programme — GCAP. In…
ANALYSIS: LITHUANIA-CHINA, THE HUMILIATING RETURN OF A COUNTRY THAT DEFIED BEIJING AND NOW NEGOTIATES
In 2021, Lithuania did something very few countries dare to do: it authorized Taiwan to open on its territory a representation office named not…
DECODING: MDA SPACE SWALLOWS BLUE CANYON FOR $620 MILLION AND ENTERS AMERICAN SPACE DEFENSE
On June 19, 2026, MDA Space announced the acquisition of Blue Canyon Technologies, a subsidiary of RTX (Raytheon), for the sum of 620 million…
INVESTIGATION: DAIMLER-ROSHEL, THE INDUSTRIAL ALLIANCE CHANGING DEFENCE
On June 16, 2026, in Paris, in the corridors of Eurosatory 2026 — the world's largest land defence and security show — two companies…
ANALYSIS: BIOSECURE ACT AND WUXI APPTEC — THE PROXY BIOLOGICAL WAR
On June 8, 2026, the United States Department of Defense published its annual update to the so-called 1260H list — the registry of Chinese…
EDITORIAL: FREE-RIDING IS OVER — THE ATLANTIC ALLIANCE OR DEATH
There are words you cannot take back once they have been spoken publicly. "Shameful" is one of them. US Secretary of War Pete Hegseth,…
DECODING: THREE CRISES IN ONE WEEK — IRAN, CHINA TECH AND NATO
The week that ended on June 21, 2026 produced three simultaneous developments each capable, taken in isolation, of redefining the foreign policy of a…