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COMMENTARY: Beijing Arms Moscow, Threatens Taiwan: The Great Chinese Threat as Seen from the West
Here is a fact that too many Western leaders still struggle to fully absorb: the war in Ukraine and the threat to Taiwan are…
INVESTIGATION: The Diplomacy of Deception: Inside the Kremlin's Machinery for Simulating Peace While Striking
On June 23, 2026, Vladimir Putin declared that Russia was «ready to negotiate» with Ukraine — on the basis of the 2022 Istanbul agreements…
REPORT: On the Road of Debt: The Russian Regions Paying the Price for Putin's War
In Moscow, restaurants are packed, shop windows glow, and official statements speak of a «special military operation» proceeding «according to plan». Thousands of kilometers…
ANALYSIS: Belarus, Armed Vassal: How Lukashenko Became Russia's Launchpad Against NATO
Alexander Lukashenko's Belarus is no longer a neutral state wedged between Russia and the European Union. It is a Russian military operations base disguised…
COMMENTARY: The EU Sanctions Wall Holds Until 2027: Patience Against Putin's Chaos
On June 26, 2026, the European Union confirmed what its critics had doubted: its economic sanctions wall against Russia holds. Trade, banking, energy, cryptocurrencies…
ANALYSIS: The Refinery War: How Ukraine Is Turning Russian Oil Into an Achilles' Heel
On June 25, 2026, Ukrainian drones traveled more than 1,300 kilometers to strike the Bashneft refineries in Ufa, in the Bashkortostan region, hitting two…
DECODING: Two Years of the Moscow-Pyongyang Treaty: the Axis of Authoritarians Fueling War in Europe
On June 22, 2026, North Korea marked the second anniversary of the mutual defense treaty with Russia, signed with great ceremony in Pyongyang during…
EDITORIAL: Zelensky extends a hand, Putin spits on it — diplomacy against the wall of Russian contempt
There is a fundamental asymmetry in the diplomacy surrounding the war in Ukraine that should provoke far more outrage than it does. On one…
COMMENTARY: Nine thousand five hundred returned — the only channel that still holds between Kyiv and Moscow
There is something almost incomprehensible, and yet real, about the following situation: Russia and Ukraine have been in total war for more than four…