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COMMENTARY: Putin extends the embargo through 2027: a sword stroke in the water
On June 26, 2026, Vladimir Putin signed a presidential decree extending Russia's ban on selling oil to buyers that apply the G7 price cap…
COMMENTARY: Zaporizhzhia Burns — Nine Wounded and the World's Indifference
On the morning of June 26, 2026, Russia struck Zaporizhzhia with at least two ballistic missiles and several attack drones targeting residential and commercial…
EDITORIAL: Zelensky Hero, Putin Tyrant — Why Moral Clarity Remains a Weapon
There is an intellectual reflex I encounter frequently among intelligent, well-informed people: the refusal to make sharp moral judgments about the protagonists of a…
COMMENTARY: Stringer and NATO "Cohesion" — The Honest Conversations of Ankara
There are moments when a senior officer says something so direct that it stops you cold — not from shock, but from the sheer…
EDITORIAL: The West Must Remain the Center of the World: Lesson from Kyiv's Night
On June 25, 2026, shortly before 9 p.m., ballistic missile alert sirens wailed across the sky of Kyiv. Russian Iskander-M missiles were streaking toward…
COMMENTARY: A Zelensky-Putin Meeting? The Dictator's Friends Have Received the Message
On June 26, 2026, President Volodymyr Zelensky confirmed what some diplomats have been whispering for weeks: Ukraine had transmitted proposals not only to its…
EDITORIAL: 40% of the Russian Budget for War — A Country Sacrificed on Putin's Altar
Some figures do not lie. When a state devotes 40% of all its public spending to war and security, that is no longer a…
COMMENTARY: Why Russia Cannot Stop Ukrainian Drones
Every week since the start of 2026, the same images repeat: columns of smoke over Russian cities, refineries on fire, air-raid sirens in the…
EDITORIAL: The West Under Dual Fiscal and Military Pressure — How to Finance Freedom
The West faces in 2026 a budgetary equation unlike any in its recent history. It must simultaneously pay for the fiscal mistakes of the…