Maxime Marquette
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Columns by Maxime Marquette
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FIELD REPORT: On the Pokrovsk Line, Death Knocked 259 Times in a Single Day
Some numbers look like zip codes — administrative references forgotten as soon as read. And then there is 259. Two hundred and fifty-nine engagements…
PORTRAIT: Four French Mirages, Sixteen Months of Combat, and Not One Shot Down by Russia
There are heroes you will never see. They fly at night, at eighteen kilometers altitude, in what experts call the most dangerous airspace on…
COLUMN: Ramstein Holds — Colby, Rutte, and the Ukraine That Changes Everything
At the 35th Ukraine Defense Contact Group in Brussels, a senior Pentagon official said — without hyperbole — that Ukraine's situation has improved. Rutte…
TESTIMONY: Dnipro Under the Bombs — Putin's Strike on the Organ Music House
Dnipro, June 2026. The city holds. It holds because its people decided long ago that capitulation was not an option — and because every…
ANALYSIS: Xi Changes Tactics — Fewer Jets Near Taiwan, More Diplomatic and Maritime Strangulation
The warplane count fell by half, but the pressure on Taiwan has never been more systematic. Xi Jinping abandoned visible provocations for an invisible…
BRIEF: CAR — Bozizé Trial In Absentia for Crimes Against Humanity: Africa Facing Its Demons
On June 16, 2026, the Special Criminal Court in Bangui opened the trial of former president François Bozizé for crimes against humanity. The accused…
EDITORIAL: FISA Section 702 expired — Trump torpedoes national security for the SAVE America Act
On June 12, 2026, America's most powerful foreign surveillance tool lapsed for the first time since 2008 — not because of a principled debate…
FIELD REPORT: The Night the Kyiv-Pechersk Lavra Burned Under Russia's Rain of Fire on Kyiv
In the night of June 14–15, 2026, Russia launched one of the most massive combined attacks of the entire war: 681 weapons — 70…