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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…
INVESTIGATION: Bashneft, Kapotnya, Ryazan: the secret map of refineries Ukraine wants to extinguish
When you connect the dots on a map — Kapotnya south of Moscow, Ufa in the Urals at 1,300 km from Ukraine, the Ryazan…
COMMENTARY: Russia imports its gasoline by ship: the logistical humiliation of an empire at its limit
Some images capture an era better than any speech ever could. Mine, for this June 2026, is a tanker heading toward Russia, loaded with…
EDITORIAL: Strike far, strike true: why Ukrainian drones are worth more than a thousand speeches
While Western diplomats polish their communiqués, while experts debate red lines and escalation risks, while governments measure their support to the millimeter of political…
REPORT: Forty days of fire: Zelensky's pressure operation targeting the nerves of Russia's war
In late June 2026, Volodymyr Zelensky publicly announced the launch of a 40-day pressure operation — not on the front lines, not in the…