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COMMENTARY: Europe warns Beijing on Taiwan: a genuine wake-up call, or an empty word without follow-through?
On June 24, 2026, according to a report by Yahoo News, the major European powers issued a rare and explicit warning to the People's…
EDITORIAL: Zelensky extends a hand, Putin spits on it — diplomacy against the wall of Russian contempt
There is a fundamental asymmetry in the diplomacy surrounding the war in Ukraine that should provoke far more outrage than it does. On one…
COMMENTARY: Nine thousand five hundred returned — the only channel that still holds between Kyiv and Moscow
There is something almost incomprehensible, and yet real, about the following situation: Russia and Ukraine have been in total war for more than four…
EDITORIAL: Twenty-first sanctions package — Europe must stop bargaining with an aggressor
There is a word that surfaces too often in the corridors of Brussels when the conversation turns to sanctions against Russia: «pragmatism». Pragmatism, we…
COMMENTARY: Four to Five Trillion Extra Rubles: Moscow Is Burning Its Future to Hold the Front
Four to five trillion additional rubles. Let us take a moment to let this figure resonate in all its excess. According to Bloomberg, relayed…
EDITORIAL: If Putin Tests Article 5: Why a Baltic State Could Become the Spark for Everything
There are questions that diplomats carefully avoid voicing, not because they are absurd, but precisely because they are too serious to formulate without consequences.…
COMMENTARY: Latvia Sounds the Alarm: Drones and Missiles, Russia's Hybrid War Is Already at Our Door
There are truths that only those who live the threat directly have the courage to speak. Latvia, a country of 1.8 million people on…
COMMENTARY: Tens of billions in contracts: Ankara, or the war transformed into an industrial fair
There is something dissonant about the imagery that surrounds a NATO summit in wartime. The press releases about "tens of billions in defense contracts."…
EDITORIAL: Is Trump abandoning us? The eastern flank's fear and Europe's belated defense awakening
The question circulates in whispers through the corridors of every NATO foreign ministry, in the margins of every bilateral briefing, in the private assessments…