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EDITORIAL: Twenty Billion for Football's Soul, FIFA Puts the World Cup Up for Sale
FIFA announced on July 28, 2026 that it plans to create a new, separate company, FIFA Forward Enterprise (FFE) , to manage commercial rights…
EDITORIAL: 86 to 12, the Senate Sets Its Own Russia Line Ahead of Trump
The current American legislature has produced, on most controversial foreign policy files, tight votes reflecting the partisan polarization that has defined Washington across several…
EDITORIAL: How Sanctions Redrew the Map of Russian Oil Trade
Sanctions are supposed to work slowly, and that slowness is precisely why the October 22, 2025 measures against Rosneft and Lukoil deserve a serious…
EDITORIAL: Twelve Companies, One Number, What the Facts Actually Confirm
Some numbers, once verified, confirm exactly what they seemed to announce. That is the case with the Golden Dome contract awarded on April 24,…
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…
EDITORIAL: 69 F-35s and $3.8 billion for the B-21, the fine print of the American arms budget
Two numbers are enough to sum up the aerial ambition of the American defense budget for 2026: 69 F-35 fighters funded at $8.5 billion,…
EDITORIAL: China's budget slowdown, what the numbers actually confirm
Beware of numbers that reassure too quickly. The 6.9% increase in China's 2026 defense budget, the weakest since 2021 according to Reuters, has been…
EDITORIAL: Scarborough in five numbers
Some territorial disputes are told better through their numbers than through their speeches. Scarborough Shoal, disputed between China and the Philippines for more than…
EDITORIAL: Xi Jinping shifts tactics on Taiwan, a strategic reading
Fewer jets, more calculated silence. The daily average of Chinese air incursions into the Taiwan Strait has fallen by half compared to 2025, according…