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EDITORIAL: Beijing and Moscow Tighten Their Naval Grip on the Pacific
From July 6 to 13, 2026, the Chinese and Russian navies conducted, in the Yellow Sea, the joint exercise Marine Interaction 2026, also called…
EDITORIAL: Beijing fires a nuclear missile into the Pacific and dares call it routine
On July 6, 2026, around noon Beijing time, a Chinese navy submarine, likely a Type 094 Jin-class ballistic missile boat, launched an intercontinental ballistic…
EDITORIAL: Turkey Gets Its F-35s Back, a Gift That Embarrasses NATO
The NATO summit in Ankara, on July 7 and 8, 2026, was supposed to focus mainly on Patriot systems, on billions promised to Kyiv,…
EDITORIAL: A tanker burns in the Don-Azov canal, and the shadow fleet cracks
On the night of July 11 to 12, 2026, a Ukrainian drone struck a tanker as it entered the Don-Azov canal, causing a fire…
EDITORIAL: The Merz gamble — 34 measures to save a breathless Germany
On July 1, 2026, after nearly seven hours of tense negotiations, the coalition led by Chancellor Friedrich Merz finally agreed on a sweeping "growth…
EDITORIAL: Eight months after resolution 2803, Gaza's peace hangs by a thread
The UN Security Council convened in July 2026 for its quarterly briefing on the Middle East, a meeting that falls almost symbolically eight months…
Zero ballistic missiles intercepted, the West's silent shame
On the night of July 6, 2026, Ukraine intercepted none of the twenty-nine ballistic and anti-ship missiles fired at it. Zero out
Erdogan, the tightrope walker keeping both NATO and the Kremlin close
By hosting the NATO summit in Ankara this week, Recep Tayyip Erdogan confirms a unique position within the Atlantic Alliance: that of
Silencing a Ukrainian TV Station Digitally Is Also an Act of War
For three hours, hackers bombarded the website of a Ukrainian national television channel with up to 200,000 requests per minute, a denial-of-service