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DECODING: Digital Tax — Trump Brandishes 100% to Protect Silicon Valley Giants
On June 26, 2026, President Donald Trump published a message on Truth Social that sums up in a few lines a commercial doctrine with…
ANALYSIS: The Scarborough Floating Platform — Beijing Methodically Tests Manila's Limits
In June 2026, China placed a floating platform of approximately 300 square feet in the immediate vicinity of Scarborough Reef, that contested atoll in…
DECODING: Gaza without weapons — Mladenov demands everything, Hamas resists, Egypt tries to save the deal
On June 17, 2026, American mediator Nickolay Mladenov — operating within the "Board of Peace" framework mandated by Washington — presented to
ANALYSIS: The Iran-USA deal reshapes the Gulf — Israel isolated, Qatar and Pakistan as mediators
On June 15, 2026, at Versailles, representatives of the United States and Iran signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) comprising 14 points.
TESTIMONY: At Eurosatory 2026 — I witnessed France arming its satellites with lasers for 2030
Eurosatory 2026 — the global defense and security exhibition held in Paris from June 16 to 20, 2026 — brought together more
OPEN LETTER: To Putin — your Dubna and Vladimir satellite centers are down, and this is just the start
Mr. Vladimir Putin, on June 22, 2026, the Ukrainian armed forces struck the Dubna satellite communications complex in the Moscow region. The
FACT-CHECK: Volna Kupol Garant — Russia jams Starlink, Ukraine destroys the system in 48 hours
In June 2026, Russia operationalized a new electronic warfare system: the Volna Kupol Garant. Its declared mission — jam communications between Ukrainian
ESSAY: The "Big Beautiful Bill" by the numbers — $4 trillion in tax cuts, 11.8 million losing Medicaid
On July 4, 2025 — a date carefully chosen for maximum patriotic symbolism — Donald Trump signed the One Big Beautiful Bill.
NARRATIVE: $12 billion in 6 months — Silicon Valley militarizes global defense at wartime speed
In the first half of 2026, global venture capital invested $12.3 billion in defense-tech startups — a figure that already surpasses the