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EDITORIAL: Gdańsk 2026 — 160 Agreements and €10 Billion, but the War Still Burns
I acknowledge that there is something absurd about commenting from the outside on a conference aimed at rebuilding a country fighting for its existence.…
EDITORIAL: LinkedIn as a battlefield — China is recruiting spies from your network, right now
What strikes me about this operation is its brutal elegance. No complex hacking. No high-risk undercover agent. Just a job posting on a platform…
COMMENTARY: North Korean Coal Thrives in the Shadows — When the UN Looks Away
50,000 to 80,000 people condemned to work in mines because they were born into the wrong family at the wrong moment in history —…
ESSAY: NATO Ankara, July 2026 — The Alliance Survives Trump, Ukraine Awaits Its Guarantees
This conversion of Atlanticist discourse into economic argument is both clever and troubling. It may work with Trump. It also means the alliance's value…
COMMENTARY: Xi in Pyongyang — the shadow alliance reshaping the world order
I won't pretend this is a total surprise. What strikes me is the speed with which Beijing decided to publicly drop the ideal of…
EDITORIAL: The FORGE Alliance — 54 nations against China's rare earth empire
Twenty to thirty years to build an alternative. Twelve to eighteen months to decide to act. This temporal gap is the core of the…
COMMENTARY: Two years of the Russia-North Korea alliance — Pyongyang glorifies its dead in Ukraine
I find it impossible to read about North Korean soldiers dying in Ukraine without feeling something that analysis alone cannot contain. These are young…
EDITORIAL: Rare earths, July 15 — China tightens its grip on the West and its industries
I have been watching this story for months, and I want to name something that rarely appears in the financial analyses: what is happening…
COLUMN: Zelensky cuts Belarus drone relays — the most silent of victories
What strikes me about this episode is the economy of means. Zelensky did not fire a missile. He asked a public question, set a…