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EDITORIAL: £752 Million of Putin's Money to Arm Ukraine — Justice Finally Has a Price
On June 18, 2026, Britain announced 150,000 drones and 350 air defense missiles for Ukraine — funded by frozen Russian sovereign assets. The aggressor…

ANALYSIS: The Supreme Court Strikes Down Trump's IEEPA Tariffs — and the West Holds Its Breath
On February 20, 2026, the Supreme Court ruled 6-3 that the president had no authority to impose sweeping tariffs under an emergency law not…

ANALYSIS: Around Kyiv, the West Finally Builds a Wall of Shields and Promises
In a single week of June 2026, the West made more concrete commitments to Ukraine than in months of hesitation. G7 summit, NATO meetings,…

OPEN LETTER: To the Betrayed MAGA Base on Visas — Your Anger Is Legitimate, but Its Source Eludes You
You voted for America First, for workers over corporations, for the end of the foreign-hiring advantage. On that score, your anger is justified. The…

FIELD REPORT: On the Pokrovsk Line, Death Knocked 259 Times in a Single Day
Some numbers look like zip codes — administrative references forgotten as soon as read. And then there is 259. Two hundred and fifty-nine engagements…

PORTRAIT: Four French Mirages, Sixteen Months of Combat, and Not One Shot Down by Russia
There are heroes you will never see. They fly at night, at eighteen kilometers altitude, in what experts call the most dangerous airspace on…

COLUMN: Ramstein Holds — Colby, Rutte, and the Ukraine That Changes Everything
At the 35th Ukraine Defense Contact Group in Brussels, a senior Pentagon official said — without hyperbole — that Ukraine's situation has improved. Rutte…

TESTIMONY: Dnipro Under the Bombs — Putin's Strike on the Organ Music House
Dnipro, June 2026. The city holds. It holds because its people decided long ago that capitulation was not an option — and because every…

ANALYSIS: Xi Changes Tactics — Fewer Jets Near Taiwan, More Diplomatic and Maritime Strangulation
The warplane count fell by half, but the pressure on Taiwan has never been more systematic. Xi Jinping abandoned visible provocations for an invisible…