Editorial
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EDITORIAL: AI Models Are Strategic Weapons — Welcome to the Digital Iron Curtain
On June 12, 2026, the U.S. Department of Commerce sent a letter to Anthropic's headquarters: two language models, Fable 5 and Mythos 5, had…
EDITORIAL: The Big Beautiful Bill at 51-49 — the Senate on the Trumpian razor's edge
Late in the night of Saturday June 28, 2026, after a vote held open for more than four hours in a tension that gripped…
EDITORIAL: Striking Moscow is not escalation — it is coercion, and Ukraine is right to use it
On June 16 and 18, 2026, Ukrainian drones struck the Kapotnya refinery in Moscow — one of the largest refining facilities in Russia and…
EDITORIAL: Ankara, the summit that will reshape the Atlantic Alliance
On July 7 and 8, 2026, the leaders of 32 NATO member nations will converge on the Beştepe Presidential Complex in Ankara. This will…
EDITORIAL: DeepSeek V4 Pro under MIT license — poisoned gift or Beijing's masterstroke?
On April 24, 2026, DeepSeek, the artificial intelligence startup based in Hangzhou, published its V4 Pro model on Hugging Face under an MIT license.…
EDITORIAL: UK, France, Germany "concerned" about China near Taiwan — and that's it
On June 24, 2026, the British, French, and German representations in Taipei published a rare joint statement expressing their "concern" over China's recent activities…
EDITORIAL: European digital sovereignty — the Franco-German paper arrives late, but it matters
On June 17, 2026, France and Germany co-signed a joint document titled the Franco-German Joint Paper on Digital Sovereignty — a policy text intended…
EDITORIAL: The Lebanon-Israel Deal — A "Beginning of the Beginning" or Peace Without Hezbollah
On June 26, 2026, surrounded by Lebanese and Israeli representatives in the hushed corridors of the State Department, Marco Rubio announced what he called…
EDITORIAL: Merz, €90 Billion and the Phantom Status — Europe Patches Together Ukraine's Future
There is in European policy toward Ukraine a painful paradox that few leaders dare name clearly: we are ready to lend €90 billion to…