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COLUMN: Ramstein 35 — $4 billion, the Freya interceptor, and the promise of a Ukrainian sky finally defended
June 18, 2026, Brussels. The 35th meeting of the Ukraine Defense Contact Group — the so-called "Ramstein" format — produced military commitments
COLUMN: THE WEST MUST REMAIN THE CENTER — WHAT ONE WEEK IN JUNE 2026 REVEALS
The week of June 17 to 24, 2026 could have passed like any ordinary week in the continuous flow of international news. It was…
COLUMN: China Wants 9 Aircraft Carriers — And It Has Nothing to Do With Defense
In May 2026, satellite images captured above the Dalian shipyard in northeastern China revealed something Western strategists had been dreading for years: a 286-meter…
COLUMN: Beijing, May 2026 — Trump and Xi Redrew the World in Two Days
There are moments when history tilts and nobody really sees it — because the event is too large to grasp in a single glance.…
COLUMN: RUTTE HAILS THE TRUMP-IRAN DEAL — A PRAGMATISM THAT UNSETTLES
There are moments in international politics when you brace for the worst and get something more complicated. The agreement between the Trump administration and…
COLUMN: Trump at Camp David, alone with his fragile peace — two days after signing, everything wavers
On June 19, 2026, just two days after signing the memorandum of understanding with Iran, Donald Trump headed to Camp David. The presidential retreat…
COLUMN: Zelensky Wants to Bring the War Home to Putin — and He Is Right
On June 22, 2026, as swarms of Ukrainian drones disrupted Moscow's airspace once again, President Volodymyr Zelensky declared on social network X that he…
COLUMN: Regime Change lays bare the imperial presidency of Donald Trump
When two New York Times reporters spend three years reconstructing the inside of a presidency, it is no longer a book. It
COLUMN: Meloni hurls Trump back at his own diplomatic ugliness
There are sentences that don't humiliate the person they target. They humiliate the one who speaks them.