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ESSAY: The North Korean 155mm howitzer and the war of attrition — Pyongyang arms Putin for eternity
On June 25, 2026, North Korean leader Kim Jong-un personally oversaw a series of weapons tests whose results were broadcast by the official KCNA…
ESSAY: Kim Jong Un's Exponential Escalation — Pyongyang Caught Democracies Off Guard
For twenty years, the international community treated North Korea as a manageable problem — a dangerous but peripheral curiosity, a miserable regime that would…
ESSAY: Maduro Caged in New York — Trump's Monroe Doctrine Tested in Venezuela
In the night of January 2 to 3, 2026, American special forces entered the Venezuelan capital, Caracas, and captured Nicolás Maduro — Venezuela's sitting…
ESSAY: Hormuz, the jugular artery of the world economy — this strait is worth more than any nuclear bomb
The Strait of Hormuz is thirty-three kilometres wide at its narrowest point. Through it flows approximately 21 million barrels of oil per day —…
ESSAY: €45 Billion for Ukraine — Europe Pays Its Moral and Strategic Debt
The city of Gdańsk, symbol of Polish resistance against oppression, birthplace of Solidarity — this choice of venue for the Ukraine Reconstruction Conference of…
ESSAY: The theology of security — how Israel justifies its "zone" empire with no withdrawal horizon
On June 25, 2026, at an officers' promotion ceremony in the Negev, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Defense Minister Israel Katz made statements…
ESSAY: The "Big Beautiful Bill" by the numbers — $4 trillion in tax cuts, 11.8 million losing Medicaid
On July 4, 2025 — a date carefully chosen for maximum patriotic symbolism — Donald Trump signed the One Big Beautiful Bill.
ESSAY: Ankara muzzled, engines sold — Turkey plays its own tune in NATO
The NATO summit in Ankara, scheduled for July 7 and 8, 2026, is already tainted by a symbolically loaded controversy: on June
ESSAY: ASEAN uses the Hormuz crisis to accelerate the South China Sea Code of Conduct
History holds crises that, instead of paralyzing, catalyze. The Strait of Hormuz crisis of March to June 2026 belongs in that category