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COMMENTARY: The Pentagon's Historic Budget, Between the Headline Number and Its Shadows
Every large number invites a simpler story than the one underneath it, and the Pentagon's $1.01 trillion FY2026 budget, a 13.4% increase according to…
EDITORIAL: How Sanctions Redrew the Map of Russian Oil Trade
Sanctions are supposed to work slowly, and that slowness is precisely why the October 22, 2025 measures against Rosneft and Lukoil deserve a serious…
COMMENTARY: What 69 F-35s and $3.8 Billion for the B-21 Reveal About the Balance of Power
The American defense budget for 2026 contains, buried within a total of $1.01 trillion, two line items that deserve separate scrutiny: $8.5 billion for…
EDITORIAL: Twelve Companies, One Number, What the Facts Actually Confirm
Some numbers, once verified, confirm exactly what they seemed to announce. That is the case with the Golden Dome contract awarded on April 24,…
COMMENTARY: Russian oil sanctions, between rhetoric and measured reality
Between the announcement of a sanction and its measured reality often stretches a space that political rhetoric prefers to ignore; it is precisely in…
EDITORIAL: The $185M arms sale to Ukraine, what Washington is really signaling
One hundred and eighty-five million dollars, against a defense budget of nearly a trillion, is almost nothing; and that is precisely why the figure…
COMMENTARY: The MATCH Act, America's technological weapon against Chinese chips
On April 3, 2026, Reuters reported that the United States had proposed the MATCH Act, legislation aimed at restricting exports of chipmaking equipment to…
EDITORIAL: 69 F-35s and $3.8 billion for the B-21, the fine print of the American arms budget
Two numbers are enough to sum up the aerial ambition of the American defense budget for 2026: 69 F-35 fighters funded at $8.5 billion,…
COMMENTARY: decoding $282 billion in three movements
A single figure can hide at least three different stories, and China's $282 billion defense budget for 2026 is the perfect example.