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ESSAY: Ukraine Between Two Chairs — Associate Membership Rejected, 90 Billion Promised, Accession Suspended
On June 15, 2026, in Luxembourg, at the second intergovernmental EU-Ukraine conference, the official opening of Cluster 1 — Fundamentals of accession negotiations was…
ESSAY: Taiwan under pressure — war games, maritime standoff, and democratic lethargy
On June 22, 2026, in Taoyuan — home to the island's largest international airport — Taiwanese army tanks rolled through streets and onto highways.…
ESSAY: Kim Jong Un and the bomb at sea — what North Korea's nuclear navy changes for Asia
On June 23, 2026, at the port of Nampo on the west coast of North Korea, Kim Jong Un personally presided over the official…
ESSAY: The Iran-USA 14-point deal — what the text says, omits, and truly threatens
On June 20, 2026, after weeks of secret negotiations conducted under American and Israeli military pressure on Iranian nuclear sites, the Trump and Pezeshkian…
ESSAY: DeepSeek V4, Open Source as a Geopolitical Weapon
On April 24, 2026, DeepSeek released on Hugging Face two models under an MIT license: DeepSeek V4-Pro, a Mixture-of-Experts architecture with 1.6 trillion total…
ESSAY: 1,569 Days — What the Length of Ukraine's War Tells Us About European Civilization
On June 11, 2026, journalist Constant Méheut of the New York Times wrote it plainly: the war in Ukraine has officially lasted longer than…
ESSAY: Trump refuses to sign the housing bill to force the end of the filibuster — a dangerous precedent
On June 24, 2026, Donald Trump announced via Truth Social that he was canceling the signing ceremony for the housing bill — the 21st…
ESSAY: Why China No Longer Needs Nvidia — Technological Autonomy as a Doctrine of Power
In June 2026, China made official what many Western analysts still refused to accept: Beijing no longer needs Nvidia, AMD, or any other American…
ESSAY: AUKUS, drones, and the Indo-Pacific — the Western response to Xi Jinping's expansionism
On the plains of Salisbury, England, the summer of 2026 witnessed something that would have seemed like science fiction a decade ago: Australian, American,…