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INVESTIGATION: Golden Dome, the Strategic Context Too Often Forgotten
Behind every major weapons program lies a context that official press releases rarely summarize in full. Golden Dome, the American national missile-shield program, is…
REPORT: The Pentagon Lands a Historic $1.01 Trillion Budget
A trillion dollars. That is the symbolic threshold the Pentagon's budget crosses for the first time, in a context of marked increase, for fiscal…
DECODING: Golden Dome, Between Rhetoric and Budget Reality
When the Pentagon presents its FY2026 budget, one figure immediately grabs attention: $25 billion in initial funding for Golden Dome, a space and missile-defense…
ANALYSIS: How American Sanctions Redrew Russia's Oil Trade
On October 22, 2025, the U.S. Treasury Department struck at the heart of Russia's war economy by sanctioning Rosneft and Lukoil simultaneously, the country's…
NOTE: Revisiting Golden Dome, what the numbers confirm
Revisiting a file already covered only makes sense if the numbers, once rechecked, confirm or qualify what was announced the first time; that is…
FACT CHECK: The Pentagon's historic budget and the context we forget
A historic figure never exists alone; it only takes on its real meaning once placed against the budgetary history that preceded it, without which…
PORTRAIT: Decoding American military space in three movements
A military budget is never read in a single glance; it must be decoded in layers, each one revealing a distinct strategic priority behind…
COMMENTARY: Russian oil sanctions, between rhetoric and measured reality
Between the announcement of a sanction and its measured reality often stretches a space that political rhetoric prefers to ignore; it is precisely in…
COLUMN: The Pentagon crosses the symbolic $1.01 trillion threshold
A trillion dollars doesn't sound like an ordinary number; it sounds like a confession, one made by an era that chose its budget before…