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FACT CHECK: No Cuba war order is signed, but Trump’s blockade is already measured in hours
“REVEALED: Trump Wants to Start Another War This Year.” That is the headline AlterNet America ran on September 26, 2026, under the byline of…
EXPLAINER: Brussels pays for Kyiv’s drones and ties its budget aid to a parcel law
There is a number on this parcel: €150. It is the threshold below which a parcel ordered from abroad enters Ukraine free of VAT.…
ANALYSIS: €6.6 billion unlocked for Ukraine, and only €1.9 billion with an EU address
1.9. Remember that number before the other one. On Friday, September 25, 2026, in Brussels, the 27 member states unlocked €6.6 billion from the…
FACT CHECK: Belousov celebrates a namesake, and ISW puts Russian lines 10.2 km from Dobropillia
Ten point two. That is kilometers. On September 24, at 10:15 p.m. ET, the Institute for the Study of War publishes its daily assessment.…
ANALYSIS: Moscow claims 592 drones intercepted, Rostov counts a refinery shut down
Five hundred ninety-two. On the morning of September 25, Russia’s Defence Ministry publishes its overnight count. Between 8 p.m. on the 24th and 8…
ANALYSIS: The Kremlin’s party holds 349 seats, and its first job is taxes
One party, one number, and a chamber almost full. Despite the millions of votes independent analysts consider suspect, the Central Election Commission signed off…
EXPLAINER: Kyiv targets the Iskander before its first flight, in Voronezh rubber
It all comes down to one tiny component. Not a missile. Not a launcher. A diode.
FACT CHECK: Marceau’s 28th place and Girard’s Alberta study don’t measure Quebec
One ranking crossed the room, then the airwaves: twenty-eighth. It isn’t a lie. It isn’t a calculation either. Not one that anybody has published,…
EXPLAINER: Duhaime’s letter to 46,221 young people, or what parties know about your age
It drops into the mailbox, and it knows your age. Your first name. Your last name. Your address. Inside, a letter signed by a…