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COMMENTARY: NATO Ankara Summit — "tens of billions" and the 5% GDP target
On June 25, 2026, Mark Rutte — Secretary General of NATO — took the floor at the Atlantic Council in Washington to

COMMENTARY: The United States gives the Philippines underwater eyes to face China
On June 22, 2026, at the Subic Bay naval base in Zambales province, the United States transferred to the Philippines 4 Ocean

COMMENTARY: Vance to Israel — "Wake Up, Trump Is Your Only Ally — Don't Torpedo Him"
On June 18, 2026, U.S. Vice President JD Vance crossed a line that few American leaders had ever dared cross so explicitly:

COMMENTARY: Russia at the UN, Ukraine at the EU — The Fractured World Will Not Reconcile Halfway
June 15, 2026 will stand as a turning point in contemporary European history. On that day, the European Union formally opened accession

COMMENTARY: Autonomous Shaheds — Russia programs drones that choose their own targets
There is a threshold we long believed was protected by international law, by the weight of ethical consensus, by a shared revulsion

COMMENTARY: Trump-Zelensky at the G7 — the American pivot on Ukraine that shocks Moscow
At the G7 summit in France, mid-June 2026, something unexpected happens: Donald Trump and Volodymyr Zelensky meet face to face, and Trump

COMMENTARY: Russian Hackers Target Ukraine, EU and US Officials — Cyberwar Intensifies
On June 25, 2026, two of the world's most important intelligence and security agencies — the Security Service of Ukraine (SBU) and

COMMENTARY: The BIOSECURE Act, WuXi AppTec, and the Technological War Against the CRINK Axis
While the world was watching the Strait of Hormuz and the Versailles USA-Iran negotiations, another war was unfolding silently in laboratories, American

COMMENTARY: GOP vs. Trump — The Party's Fractures Six Months Before the Midterms
Six months out from the November 2026 midterms, the American Republican Party presents a paradoxical spectacle: it simultaneously controls the White House,