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TESTIMONY: The US-Iran Accord — A Giant Bandage on a Wound That Has Not Healed
On June 15, 2026, a memorandum of understanding was announced between the United States and Iran, establishing a 60-day pause in hostilities following the…
NARRATIVE: The US-Iran Geneva Accord — 60 Days to Avoid Nuclear War
On June 17, 2026, in Geneva, representatives of the United States and Iran initial a 14-point memorandum of understanding. This document is not yet…
ESSAY: China Nibbles at Taiwan One Island at a Time — and the World Looks Away
In June 2026, Chinese coast guard vessels approached or breached the restricted waters of three different Taiwanese island chains in less than three weeks.…
COLUMN: A French NATO Jet Shoots Down a Ukrainian Drone Over Latvia — Russia Turns Our Allies into Targets
On June 8, 2026, a French NATO fighter jet deployed as part of the alliance's Baltic air policing mission in Latvia shot down a…
OPINION: Russian GPS-Jamming Satellites — Moscow Launches Its Invisible War from Space
On June 5, 2026, the New York Times revealed what navigation and defense experts had suspected for years: Russian satellites belonging to the missile-launch…
PROFILE: Spies from Beijing and Moscow — the United Kingdom, a global intelligence battlefield
On June 18, 2026, a British court convicted two men for spying on behalf of China. This verdict arrived in a documented context of…
INVESTIGATION: Murder of a Russian dissident in Poland — Moscow strikes at the heart of Europe
On June 8, 2026, Semyon Skrepetsky, a 44-year-old Russian dissident, was shot dead in a city in eastern Poland, near the Belarusian border. This…
COMMENTARY: Gazprom Germania, the time bomb Moscow had buried beneath German soil
On June 24, 2026, investigators from the German Federal Prosecution Office descended simultaneously on Berlin and Frankfurt. Not for a routine corruption case or…
EDITORIAL: The Starmer Plot and 192 Attacks — Putin Declares War on Europe
On June 19, 2026, a British court convicted two men for having set fire to properties belonging to Prime Minister Keir Starmer. What could…