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DECODING: 5% of GDP on Defense by 2035 — NATO Faces Its Historic Bill
In 2025, at the Hague summit, NATO leaders adopted an objective that had seemed unthinkable to many of them: dedicating 5% of GDP to…
OPINION: OFAC Removes Russians from Sanctions — Trump Quietly Yields to Moscow
On June 24, 2026, OFAC — the Office of Foreign Assets Control within the U.S. Treasury Department — quietly removed from its SDN list…
INVESTIGATION: The Patriot license — how Ukraine convinced Trump with its own drones
On June 16, 2026, in Évian, on the sidelines of the G7 summit in France, Ukrainian president Volodymyr Zelensky met with American president Donald…
COLUMN: Trump says Zelensky is holding up — and Moscow is genuinely worried
On June 25, 2026, in the hushed corridor of the Oval Office, Donald Trump said something few observers saw coming. Asked about the state…
DECODING: Tanks in Taipei: the five-day exercise preparing for the unthinkable
Military tanks patrolling the streets of Taipei. To an uninformed observer, the image might evoke a coup d'état or an occupation. In reality, it…
EDITORIAL: Hegseth's six-month review — the blackmail fracturing the alliance
Some announcements change the climate of an alliance. One of them came before the Ankara summit: Pete Hegseth, the American Secretary of Defense in…
OPINION: Is Trump abandoning us? The fear haunting NATO's eastern flank
In the diplomatic corridors of Tallinn, Riga, Warsaw, and Vilnius, there is a question everyone asks in private and no one wants to put…
DECODING: Five percent of GDP — the figure redefining Western defense
Ten years ago, discussions about defense spending within NATO revolved around a target that the majority of members were not meeting: 2% of GDP.…
PROFILE: Mark Rutte, the Man of Ankara: Portrait of the Secretary Who Must Keep Trump in the Alliance
Mark Rutte. The name does not stir patriotic emotions the way Churchill's or de Gaulle's does. Nor does it provoke the emotional devotion of…