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PROFILE: China's supply chain security law — Beijing's new tool of coercion
I want to be precise about what this law does, because the word "coercion" gets thrown around too easily in geopolitical commentary. This is…
TESTIMONY: Sybiha Expects Air Defense Decisions at Ankara — And Ukraine Cannot Afford to Wait
There is a particular kind of courage in a diplomat who speaks plainly about existential needs in front of cameras that the whole world…
PROFILE: 9,463 Kamikaze Drones in One Day — the Face of Russia's Total War
9,463 drones in one day. That figure should appear in every Western leader's speech when they hesitate over increasing support for Ukraine. Not as…
TESTIMONY: 18 Months of Russian Drones Over European Nuclear Sites — The Kremlin's Espionage Unmasked
I cannot testify to having seen these drones. Nobody I know has seen them either — and that is precisely the problem. An 18-month…
TESTIMONY: The Strait of Hormuz as hostage — Iran plays its survival on a maritime route
A negotiation between the United States and Iran on maritime freedom, while within Iran itself the IRGC and the pragmatists fight over who controls…
PROFILE: Kateryna Lykhohliad — the 425th Regiment Journalist Soldiers Called an Enemy
There is something chilling in the symmetry of this story: a journalist who documents real deaths in a real regiment ends up designated as…
TESTIMONY: Russia–North Korea Bridge Delayed — Fractured Symbol of a Hollow Alliance
North Korea built its side of the bridge. Russia did not build its own. In a relationship supposedly between equal partners — or at…
PROFILE: Bohdan, Oleksandr, Serhii — Three Soldiers Ukraine's Military Reform Leaves Behind
Before discussing numbers and contractual structures, we need to name what these soldiers have been through. Four years at the front. Comrades killed beside…
PROFILE: The Ravlyk — the Ukrainian tortoise conquering NATO and defense giants
There is something deeply moving about the story of a 50-person company that invents a military robot while its country burns, tests it in…