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EDITORIAL: Europe Is Funding Ukraine at €45 Billion — and Should Be Proud, Not Ashamed
On June 22, 2026, at a joint meeting of the European Parliament's committees on international trade, security and defense, and the budget, the representative…
EDITORIAL: Iran Sanctions Relief — Tehran Expects Far More Than 60 Days for the MoU
On June 17, 2026, in Versailles, Donald Trump and Iranian Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei signed a memorandum of understanding that opens a 60-day negotiating…
EDITORIAL: Ankara Summit — Rutte, Turn Promises Into Steel or Go Home
On July 7, 2026, the leaders of the 32 NATO member nations will gather in Ankara, Turkey, for what Secretary General Mark Rutte himself…
EDITORIAL: The $55 Billion Autonomous Drone Revolution — the West Must Win or Lose Everything
The figure is staggering: $55 billion by 2032. That is the projected size of the global autonomous defense drone market — some independent analyses…
EDITORIAL: Water Cannons, Cyanide and Silence — China Torments Philippine Fishermen with Impunity
Somewhere in the South China Sea, a few nautical miles from a rock that an international tribunal confirmed belongs to the exclusive economic zone…
COMMENTARY: Russia running on empty — 53 regions short on fuel, Kyiv hits the refineries
In June 2026, Russia is experiencing what economic observers are calling the "worst national fuel crisis" since the war began. More than
EDITORIAL: 50,000 cameras hacked by Moscow in Europe — cyberwarfare has changed in scale
On June 21, 2026, Russian media outlet Mash — considered close to Russian intelligence services — reveals that Russian hackers have compromised
TESTIMONY: Europe closes its technological defence gap — AGILE, their collective wager
On June 25, 2026, the European Parliament adopts its position on the AGILE programme — Agile and Rapid Defence Innovation. This vote
COMMENTARY: NATO Ankara Summit — "tens of billions" and the 5% GDP target
On June 25, 2026, Mark Rutte — Secretary General of NATO — took the floor at the Atlantic Council in Washington to