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EDITORIAL: The $185M arms sale to Ukraine, what Washington is really signaling
One hundred and eighty-five million dollars, against a defense budget of nearly a trillion, is almost nothing; and that is precisely why the figure…
INVESTIGATION: Lukoil, a strategic reading of American sanctions
A deadline pushed back three times is never a mere administrative detail; it is the visible trace of an economic arm-wrestling match whose outcome…
REPORT: A look at the Pentagon's $15.1 billion for cyber
Behind the headlines devoted to fighter jets and aircraft carriers, a quieter budget line deserves a factual accounting: cybersecurity within the Pentagon's fiscal year…
DECODING: PURL, a cold read one month later
A month after the last published figures, it is time to revisit the PURL program with the distance that breaking news never really allows.
ANALYSIS: Why the MATCH Act matters more than it looks
On April 3, 2026, Reuters reported that the United States had proposed a new law, the MATCH Act, designed to restrict exports of semiconductor…
FACT CHECK: field notes on 69 F-35s and $3.8 billion for the B-21
A budget line is a fact you can check; a delivery date is a promise you can only wait for. This fact check verifies…
PORTRAIT: the NDAA 2026 and its $800 million for Ukraine, the questions worth asking
Eight hundred million dollars, buried inside a nine-hundred-billion-dollar bill, can travel through an entire legislative session without a single headline of its own.
NOTE: Lukoil, the toxic asset nobody wants to buy
Lukoil has carried, since October 2025, a label few oil companies want to wear: that of a sanctioned asset, too toxic to sell, too…
FACT CHECK: $15.1 billion for cyberdefense, the Pentagon's new budget front
The American defense budget for fiscal year 2026 allocates $15.1 billion to cybersecurity, according to data published by MeriTalk in 2026.