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COMMENTARY: The GCAP Stealth Fighter, a Shared Bet by Tokyo, London and Rome
On July 3, 2026, Japan, the United Kingdom, and Italy announced the extension of their joint contract for the development of the Global Combat…
FACT-CHECK: EU Repeats That Greenland's Future Belongs to Greenlanders
On July 8, 2026, as the NATO summit was taking place in Ankara and Donald Trump was reasserting his territorial ambitions over Greenland, European…
REPORT: Starmer Refuses to Drag Britain Into Iran War, Trump Bristles
The NATO summit held in Ankara on July 7 and 8, 2026 was supposed to celebrate the Alliance's renewed unity after months of transatlantic…
DECODING: why Erdogan is right to call Ankara historic
Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan, host of the NATO summit in Ankara, called the July 7-8, 2026 meetings "historic," according to Al Jazeera.
REPORT: Germany and Canada lead the spending, Europe finally wakes up
On July 7, 2026, NATO published a report that would have seemed unthinkable a decade ago: average defense spending among the Alliance's European countries…
COMMENTARY: co-producing drones together, the idea NATO was waiting for
Since 2022, the Western debate over support for Ukraine has often revolved around a single question: how much to give, and for how long.
COLUMN: Kyiv signs three drone deals, and Europe finally gets it
For a long time, Ukraine at NATO summits was described as a country showing up to ask — for weapons, funding, guarantees. On July…
FACT-CHECK: Rutte tells the truth on Iran, and Putin takes note
The NATO summit in Ankara was not supposed to be about Iran. Officially it was about collective defense, about budgets, about coordination among allies…
ANALYSIS: Trump Targets Spain, Threatens to "Cut" Trade Ties
On the sidelines of the NATO summit in Ankara, on July 7 and 8, 2026, Donald Trump declared that "Spain is a lost cause,"…