Maxime Marquette
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Columns by Maxime Marquette
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COMMENTARY: The SAVE America Act — four GOP senators hold the line in a silent civil war
Collins, Murkowski, McConnell, Tillis. Four Republican senators have blocked Donald Trump's voter-ID bill — again and again. It is a quiet institutional rebellion inside…
COMMENTARY: The Caves Monastery in Flames — Putin Just Struck the Heart of Civilization
On the night of June 14–15, 2026, Russia sent 70 missiles and 611 drones at Ukraine. One struck the Kyiv Pechersk Lavra — a…
BRIEF: The NATO 5% GDP Deal — Who's Really Paying, and Who's Still Bluffing Before Ankara?
June 18, 2026: NATO defense ministers convened in Brussels with $139 billion in new allied spending to show. Behind the record numbers, a brutal…
BREAKDOWN: The Kim-Putin Pact Turns Two — and It Is Reshaping the World at Our Expense
Two years after Putin and Kim Jong Un signed their mutual defense treaty in Pyongyang, what seemed like diplomatic theater has become an operational…
ESSAY: Japan–Philippines Maritime Security — The Quiet Alliance That Has Beijing Alarmed
Tokyo and Manila have been quietly building the most consequential security partnership in the Indo-Pacific. Beijing's furious reaction to routine EEZ negotiations just proved…
ANALYSIS: China's New 155mm Naval Gun — 200km Range, Built to Invade Taiwan
The PLAN is testing the heaviest naval artillery system mounted on a modern warship. At 21.8 tons, with a claimed 200km range and stealth…
INVESTIGATION: Trump Relaunches the Global Trade War — and His Allies Are in the Crosshairs
On June 2, 2026, the Trump administration dusted off a legal weapon few thought it would use: Section 301 of the Trade Act of…
PORTRAIT: Elbridge Colby at Ramstein — The American Strategist Who Still Believes in a Ukrainian Victory
On June 18, 2026, the man who once slowed weapons deliveries to Ukraine appeared via video at Ramstein to declare the situation had improved…
ANALYSIS: Ukraine-Germany, the Anti-Ballistic Forge and TerMIT Robots Are Changing the War
On June 18, 2026, in Brussels, Ukraine and Germany signed two agreements: jointly developing a new anti-ballistic system and co-producing TerMIT ground robots in…