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PROFILE: The Ravlyk — the Ukrainian tortoise conquering NATO and defense giants
There is something deeply moving about the story of a 50-person company that invents a military robot while its country burns, tests it in…
COMMENTARY: Two years of the Russia-North Korea alliance — Pyongyang glorifies its dead in Ukraine
I find it impossible to read about North Korean soldiers dying in Ukraine without feeling something that analysis alone cannot contain. These are young…
EDITORIAL: Rare earths, July 15 — China tightens its grip on the West and its industries
I have been watching this story for months, and I want to name something that rarely appears in the financial analyses: what is happening…
TESTIMONY: What I saw in Kim Jong Un's weapons tests — the North Korea rewriting the rules
I read these specifications and do the simple math. Ninety kilometers from the border: Seoul enters range. Warheads designed to destroy a nation's infrastructure.…
NARRATIVE: The $14 billion on hold — how Trump turned Taiwan's weapons into a bargaining chip
Fourteen billion dollars in weapons turned into a "bargaining chip." If anyone still doubts how Trump conceives of alliances, that phrase should be enough…
COLUMN: One more year — the EU extends its sanctions against Russia through July 2027
Economic sanctions do not win wars on their own. But they deprive the adversary of resources, complicate its military imports, and impose a political…
OPINION: Kostiantynivka, the fortress that holds — but for how much longer?
There is something vertiginous about looking at a map and understanding that the survival of a city of 70,000 — reduced to 2,000 souls…
PROFILE: Dubna, second strike — Ukraine dismantles Russia's military space constellation
When Zelensky says "long-range sanctions," he is choosing his words with precision. This is not a metaphor — it is a doctrine. Ukraine is…
INVESTIGATION: The Hornet drone forces Russia to build a five-layer defense
What Ukrainian engineers accomplished with the Hornet exemplifies what the war in Ukraine has produced at its best: local solutions, adapted to real threats,…