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INVESTIGATION: A Strategic Reading of the $1.01 Trillion Pentagon Budget
A trillion dollars is easy to say and almost impossible to picture, which is exactly why the Pentagon's FY2026 budget of $1.01 trillion, a…
PORTRAIT: Washington Sanctions Rosneft and Lukoil, the Questions Few Outlets Are Asking
On October 22, 2025, the U.S. Treasury Department imposed sanctions on Rosneft and Lukoil, Russia's two largest oil companies.
PORTRAIT: Decoding American military space in three movements
A military budget is never read in a single glance; it must be decoded in layers, each one revealing a distinct strategic priority behind…
INVESTIGATION: Lukoil, a strategic reading of American sanctions
A deadline pushed back three times is never a mere administrative detail; it is the visible trace of an economic arm-wrestling match whose outcome…
PORTRAIT: the NDAA 2026 and its $800 million for Ukraine, the questions worth asking
Eight hundred million dollars, buried inside a nine-hundred-billion-dollar bill, can travel through an entire legislative session without a single headline of its own.
PORTRAIT: PURL, the American mechanism that mobilized 21 allies for Ukraine
The PURL mechanism — Prioritized Ukraine Requirements List — has mobilized 21 allied countries and two partners around a shared goal: funding the purchase…
PORTRAIT: the chip war intensifies, the context we keep forgetting
Two measures, two capitals, a single battlefield: semiconductors. This portrait retraces the forgotten context of a confrontation that has been intensifying for months between…
PORTRAIT: field notes on the Chinese coast guard east of Taiwan
On July 5, 2026, Beijing announced new coast guard patrols off the east coast of Taiwan, according to the New York Times. This move,…
FACT CHECK: Two new Type 055 destroyers for the Chinese navy, a strategic reading
In early 2026, according to IDSA, the Chinese navy commissioned two new Type 055-class destroyers, the Dongguan and the Anqing.