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DECODING: Lavrov Says No — Why Moscow Sabotages Every Peace Attempt
Since Russia launched its full-scale invasion of Ukraine in February 2022, Sergei Lavrov has mastered a particular art: the elaborate diplomatic refusal. Not a…
EDITORIAL: Trump, Digital Taxes and the EU — One Ultimatum Too Many
It happened the way it always happens with Donald Trump: without warning, without diplomatic consultation, without regard for the fragile commercial balances that months…
REPORT: Ukraine-Russia, Summer 2026 — the Attrition Moscow Is Losing but Refuses to Acknowledge
In the direction of Kostyantynivka, in the Donbas, Russian forces absorb approximately 53 casualties per day for territorial gains limited to minor group infiltrations.…
REPORT: Trump and China — Friend on Monday, Enemy on Friday, Strategist on the Weekend
On Thursday, June 25, 2026, the Chinese Ministry of Commerce announces that China and the United States have agreed to establish a bilateral trade…
PROFILE: ASEAN Facing Beijing — Portrait of an Institution That Cannot Defend Itself
In June 2026, China positioned a floating platform inside the lagoon of Scarborough Shoal, a rocky formation disputed in the South China Sea, claimed…
OPEN LETTER: To the Generals Who Still Thought Drone Swarms Were Science Fiction
To you, senior officers, strategic planners, defense procurement bureaucrats who spent years reading reports on autonomous drone swarms and telling yourselves it is ten…
EDITORIAL: Iran at Geneva in the Morning, Iranian Drones in Lebanon at Night — Duplicity as Doctrine
On June 17, 2026, in Versailles, President Trump and Iranian Supreme Leader Mojtaba Khamenei signed a 14-point memorandum of understanding. The world applauded. Europeans…
REPORT: European Rearmament in 2026 — the Speeches Are Grand, the Factories Can't Keep Up
Europe is rearming. That sentence, repeated like a mantra since 2022, is both true and misleading. True because European defense budgets have indeed increased…
OPEN LETTER: To Those Who Still Doubted Ukraine Could Build a War Industry
To you, European policymakers, skeptical journalists, experts who spent two years repeating that Ukraine lacked the industrial capacity to sustain a prolonged war of…