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ANALYSIS: Five countries, one threshold: who clears 3.5% of GDP on NATO defense
There is a number that NATO does not exactly advertise to please its most powerful members. According to the Alliance's own data relayed by…
FACT CHECK: NATO's eastern flank facing drones, what the facts confirm
Since March 27, 2026, a series of documented drone incidents on NATO's eastern flank has revived the debate over defense spending, all the way…
DECODING: Lithuania, the budget champion of an alliance under strain
With 5.33% of its GDP dedicated to pure defense in 2026, Lithuania holds, according to figures published by Reuters on July 7, the top…
INVESTIGATION: Novak and the five-figure import gamble
On July 8, 2026, Russian deputy prime minister Alexander Novak uttered a sentence that, on its own, sums up the scale of an unprecedented…
INVESTIGATION: Western Sanctions, What the Numbers Actually Confirm
On October 22, 2025, the U.S. Treasury sanctioned Rosneft and Lukoil, Russia's two largest oil companies, a decision presented at the time as a…
OP-ED: Putin faces his own price cap, the extended-decree maneuver
A presidential decree extending a mechanism to 2027 announces nothing spectacular; it quietly reveals that no quick exit from the economic war is being…
INVESTIGATION: Rosneft and Lukoil under U.S. sanctions, the Trump maneuver
A signature at the U.S. Treasury, two Russian oil logos suddenly marked with a red flag: this is how, in October 2025, the Trump…
REPORT: Russian oil price cap extended into 2027
A decree signed quietly, a cap lowered without fanfare: the economic war over Russian oil is no longer fought in grand speeches, but in…
DECODING: Ukraine's economic resilience under Russia's summer strikes
As the Russian military multiplies its strikes against Ukrainian energy and industrial infrastructure, Ukraine's economy continues, against the expectations of some pessimistic observers, to…