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EDITORIAL: The Economic War of Attrition — The West Can Win, If Only It Holds On
On June 18, 2026, emerging from a meeting of NATO Defense Ministers in Brussels, Secretary General Mark Rutte dropped a statistic that
EDITORIAL: Hegseth Subjects NATO to Transatlantic Blackmail—And Europe Has No Choice Left
On June 18, 2026, in Brussels, inside the NATO defense ministers' meeting room, U.S. Secretary of War Pete Hegseth delivered a sentence
COMMENTARY: Lavrov and the Ghost Accords of Alaska — Russia’s Diplomacy of the Invented Lie
On June 19, 2026, Sergey Lavrov stood before the cameras in Moscow and claimed, with his usual poise, that Russia is seeking
EDITORIAL: Moscow Doesn't Want Peace — It Wants Ukraine's Total Surrender
On June 19, 2026, Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov published an essay titled "Ukraine, Europe, and Global Security", in which he unambiguously
EDITORIAL: Divided G7, Beijing Thanks You — a Disunited West is the Greatest Gift to Xi Jinping
There is one image that sums up the entire Évian-les-Bains G7. On one side, Emmanuel Macron, convening an unprecedented video call with
COMMENTARY: Trump Thanks Xi and Putin — The Necessary Evil That Flatters the Wolves
On June 17, 2026, at the closing of the G7 summit in Évian-les-Bains, France, the President of the United States, Donald Trump,
EDITORIAL: Turkey, NATO's Pivot — Ankara Claims Command of the Reaction Force
On June 19, 2026, from Brussels, Turkish Defense Minister Yaşar Güler didn't pull any punches. Speaking to journalists gathered after the meeting
COMMENTARY: Ukraine, NATO’s De Facto Second Army — Zelenskyy’s Shocking Gambit
On June 19, 2026, following the Brussels summit and the meeting of the Ukraine Defense Contact Group in the Ramstein format, Ukrainian
OPEN LETTER: To a Europe That Still Hesitates — the 21st Package Must Bite, Not Brush
To you, European leaders, presidents, ministers, commissioners, ambassadors at COREPER who are still debating commas while Kyiv burns. I am writing to