Maxime Marquette
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REPORT: RESOLUTE DRAGON 2026, 9,600 SOLDIERS ON THE EDGE OF THE INDO-PACIFIC
On June 20, 2026, at Camp Kengun in Kumamoto Prefecture, Japan, Lieutenant General Seiji Toriumi, commander of the Western Army of the Japan Ground…
DECODING: CHINA'S FINLESS SUBMARINE — A WEAPON THAT SHOULD NOT HAVE EXISTED
It was a satellite image dated June 1, 2026 that triggered everything. Captured by Vantor and published by the Paris-based military maritime analysis site…
ANALYSIS: PL-16 VS AIM-260, THE MISSILE RACE REDEFINING AIR WARFARE
There was no declaration of war. No speech at the UN. No joint communiqué. There were Chinese military seminar slides that leaked online, an…
OPINION: 5% of GDP or Zero — Hegseth Rang the Bell at NATO
There was something unusual in the NATO hall in Brussels on June 18, 2026. Not the rhetoric — Alliance meetings always carry their share…
FACTCHECK: One American in Four — The Brutal Numbers of an Unpopular War
Polls have this cruelty about them: they reflect the country as it is, not as its leaders would like it to be. The Reuters/Ipsos…
COLUMN: Beijing, May 2026 — Trump and Xi Redrew the World in Two Days
There are moments when history tilts and nobody really sees it — because the event is too large to grasp in a single glance.…
DECODING: TRUMP "NECESSARY EVIL" — WHAT THIS FORMULA REALLY REVEALS
Some political formulas, despite their apparent simplification, contain more truth than pages of analysis. "Trump, a necessary evil for the West" is one of…
ANALYSIS: TRUMP AND THE HORMUZ TOLLS — WHEN AMERICA REINVENTS ITS GLOBAL ROLE
On June 20, 2026, Donald Trump published on Truth Social a sentence that would circulate through foreign ministries around the world: "There will be…
REPORT: TRUMP AT THE ÉVIAN G7 — WHAT HE SAID ON IRAN, UKRAINE AND THE WORLD
The Évian G7 of June 17 and 18, 2026 is no ordinary summit. It takes place during a period of accelerated reshaping of the…