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EDITORIAL: If Putin Tests Article 5: Why a Baltic State Could Become the Spark for Everything
There are questions that diplomats carefully avoid voicing, not because they are absurd, but precisely because they are too serious to formulate without consequences.…
COMMENTARY: Latvia Sounds the Alarm: Drones and Missiles, Russia's Hybrid War Is Already at Our Door
There are truths that only those who live the threat directly have the courage to speak. Latvia, a country of 1.8 million people on…
INVESTIGATION: Kaliningrad, Forward Base: What Russia's Baltic Strike Rehearsals Reveal
On June 21, 2026, NATO surveillance radars once again registered the familiar and unsettling activity coming out of Kaliningrad's skies. Su-24M tactical bombers of…
ANALYSIS: Baltic Provocation: The Scenario Every NATO Commander Dreads This Summer
There are signals that diplomats and military officers send through official communiqués, carefully weighed statements, and calculated announcements. And then there are different signals…
DECODING: Quadrupling 155mm Shells: The Brutal Admission of the West's Industrial Lag
The 155mm artillery shell is a cylindrical steel piece roughly forty centimeters long, filled with explosive, fired by Western heavy howitzers. It is not…
COMMENTARY: Tens of billions in contracts: Ankara, or the war transformed into an industrial fair
There is something dissonant about the imagery that surrounds a NATO summit in wartime. The press releases about "tens of billions in defense contracts."…
EDITORIAL: Is Trump abandoning us? The eastern flank's fear and Europe's belated defense awakening
The question circulates in whispers through the corridors of every NATO foreign ministry, in the margins of every bilateral briefing, in the private assessments…
DECODING: Five percent of GDP: the budget revolution Rutte wants carved in marble at Ankara
Five percent. Two digits, one percentage sign, and a seismic shift in how the Western alliance understands its own survival. When NATO Secretary General…
ANALYSIS: Ankara July 7-8: the NATO summit where the West stakes its credibility against Putin
On July 7 and 8, 2026, the leaders of 32 allied nations plus partners from the Indo-Pacific and the Middle East will gather at…