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EDITORIAL: FREE-RIDING IS OVER — THE ATLANTIC ALLIANCE OR DEATH
There are words you cannot take back once they have been spoken publicly. "Shameful" is one of them. US Secretary of War Pete Hegseth,…
COMMENTARY: Xi Purges His Own Army — And Calls It Loyalty
On June 17, 2026, at the National Defense University in Beijing, Zhang Shengmin — vice-chairman of the Central Military Commission (CMC), the sole general…
COMMENTARY: "Our patience is not endless" — Kyiv's warning
On June 23, 2026, Sergiy Melnyk, Ukraine's representative to the United Nations, delivered a sentence that The Guardian reproduced in its daily war briefing.…
EDITORIAL: SUMY — A 13-YEAR-OLD CHILD AND THE SILENCE OF THOSE WHO COULD STOP THIS
A Russian drone struck a residential building in Sumy, in northeastern Ukraine, on that Monday in June 2026. It killed three members of the…
REPORT: KOSTIANTYNIVKA — 53 RUSSIANS FALL EVERY DAY FOR A CITY THEY DO NOT HAVE
On June 23, 2026, from the Kostiantynivka front, Yuriy Madyar — deputy commander of the Ukrainian 19th Army Corps — made public a figure…
COMMENTARY: SYCOPHANTIC AI ON THE BATTLEFIELD — THE PLA ISSUES A WARNING FOR ALL OF US
On June 10, 2026, the PLA Daily — the official newspaper of the People's Liberation Army, the highest institutional mouthpiece of the Chinese military…
COMMENTARY: THE AMERICAN SENATE TRIES TO REIN IN TRUMP AND THE WAR — TENTH ACT
On June 23, 2026, the United States Senate adopts a War Powers resolution on Iran by 50 votes against 48. Four Republican senators join…
EDITORIAL: WHAT TRUMP SAID ON JUNE 23, 2026, AND WHAT IT REVEALS ABOUT AMERICA
On Monday June 23, 2026, Donald Trump takes the microphone at the White House to deliver what looks, structurally, like every one of his…
COMMENTARY: NATO Reduces KFOR in Kosovo — Prudence or Premature Signal?
On June 17, 2026, at the pre-ministerial press conference in Brussels, NATO Secretary General Mark Rutte delivered a sentence that many had been waiting…