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OPEN LETTER: Dear Xi Jinping — The Pentagon Just Blacklisted Your Best Companies
The Pentagon is not simply making a list. It is writing a narrative — the narrative that says Chinese civilian technology and Chinese military…
TESTIMONY: Sybiha Expects Air Defense Decisions at Ankara — And Ukraine Cannot Afford to Wait
There is a particular kind of courage in a diplomat who speaks plainly about existential needs in front of cameras that the whole world…
NARRATIVE: Ukraine Built Its Own Smart Bomb in 17 Months — And Took It to War
Seventeen months. That is how long it took Ukraine to go from concept to combat deployment for a precision-guided munition. The Pentagon takes longer…
PROFILE: 9,463 Kamikaze Drones in One Day — the Face of Russia's Total War
9,463 drones in one day. That figure should appear in every Western leader's speech when they hesitate over increasing support for Ukraine. Not as…
INVESTIGATION: Rutte Plays the Trump Card — 195,000 American Jobs and NATO Under Pressure Before Ankara
A NATO chief translating Atlantic solidarity into American jobs — I wish he hadn't had to. But we live in the real world, and…
COMMENTARY: The CRINK Axis on Patrol — When Beijing and Moscow Test the Free World's Nerves
Eleven patrols in seven years. Chinese diplomatic rhetoric speaks of "neutrality" — but one does not conduct eleven joint military demonstrations of force with…
EDITORIAL: Gdańsk 2026 — 160 Agreements and €10 Billion, but the War Still Burns
I acknowledge that there is something absurd about commenting from the outside on a conference aimed at rebuilding a country fighting for its existence.…
REPORT: A Russian Ka-52 Shot Down on July 2, 2026 — 353 Helicopters Lost, a Toll That Does Not Lie
I look at this figure of 353 helicopters and I think about what it represents in human and industrial terms. Rebuilding 353 modern helicopters…
DECODING: The UK Cuts Its Destroyers for £5 Billion in Drones — Thanks, Ukraine
There is a painful irony in this story: Ukraine is teaching the West how to fight, after the West spent years refusing to supply…