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EDITORIAL: If Putin Tests Article 5: Why a Baltic State Could Become the Spark for Everything
There are questions that diplomats carefully avoid voicing, not because they are absurd, but precisely because they are too serious to formulate without consequences.…
COMMENTARY: Latvia Sounds the Alarm: Drones and Missiles, Russia's Hybrid War Is Already at Our Door
There are truths that only those who live the threat directly have the courage to speak. Latvia, a country of 1.8 million people on…
INVESTIGATION: Kaliningrad, Forward Base: What Russia's Baltic Strike Rehearsals Reveal
On June 21, 2026, NATO surveillance radars once again registered the familiar and unsettling activity coming out of Kaliningrad's skies. Su-24M tactical bombers of…
ANALYSIS: Baltic Provocation: The Scenario Every NATO Commander Dreads This Summer
There are signals that diplomats and military officers send through official communiqués, carefully weighed statements, and calculated announcements. And then there are different signals…
ANALYSIS: Ankara July 7-8: the NATO summit where the West stakes its credibility against Putin
On July 7 and 8, 2026, the leaders of 32 allied nations plus partners from the Indo-Pacific and the Middle East will gather at…
INVESTIGATION: Bashneft, Kapotnya, Ryazan: the secret map of refineries Ukraine wants to extinguish
When you connect the dots on a map — Kapotnya south of Moscow, Ufa in the Urals at 1,300 km from Ukraine, the Ryazan…
COMMENTARY: Russia imports its gasoline by ship: the logistical humiliation of an empire at its limit
Some images capture an era better than any speech ever could. Mine, for this June 2026, is a tanker heading toward Russia, loaded with…
EDITORIAL: Strike far, strike true: why Ukrainian drones are worth more than a thousand speeches
While Western diplomats polish their communiqués, while experts debate red lines and escalation risks, while governments measure their support to the millimeter of political…
REPORT: Forty days of fire: Zelensky's pressure operation targeting the nerves of Russia's war
In late June 2026, Volodymyr Zelensky publicly announced the launch of a 40-day pressure operation — not on the front lines, not in the…