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ANALYSIS: Urals at $44 — The Barrel Strangling the Kremlin
There is a figure that should be on every Western decision-maker's lips in this June 2026: $44.10 per barrel. That is the cap fixed…
COMMENTARY: Zaporizhzhia Burns — Nine Wounded and the World's Indifference
On the morning of June 26, 2026, Russia struck Zaporizhzhia with at least two ballistic missiles and several attack drones targeting residential and commercial…
DECODING: Night of 660 Drones — Russia Discovers Its Own Vulnerability
For four years, Russia has presented its drone and missile strikes on Ukraine as a demonstration of military power. Shaheds by the hundreds over…
OPINION: Kyiv Under Missiles Again — The Unbearable Routine of Russian Terror
There are news items that no longer surprise — which makes receiving them even more painful. On the evening of June 25, 2026, at…
PROFILE: Volodymyr Zelensky, the President Who Made Drones His Ambassadors
There is an image that captures the evolution of Volodymyr Zelensky since 2022: this president elected without prior military experience, an actor turned head…
EDITORIAL: Zelensky Hero, Putin Tyrant — Why Moral Clarity Remains a Weapon
There is an intellectual reflex I encounter frequently among intelligent, well-informed people: the refusal to make sharp moral judgments about the protagonists of a…
ANALYSIS: The Axis of Aggressors — Russia, China, Iran, North Korea: One Front?
The Foundation for Defense of Democracies has just published a volume whose title alone demands attention: Axis of Aggressors. Not a poetic metaphor —…
COMMENTARY: Stringer and NATO "Cohesion" — The Honest Conversations of Ankara
There are moments when a senior officer says something so direct that it stops you cold — not from shock, but from the sheer…
ANALYSIS: Hungary Is No Longer Alone — The New Geometry of European Blockades
Ever since Viktor Orbán turned Hungary into the European Union's principal institutional sparring partner, the image had crystallized: one holdout against twenty-six. That comforting…