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BREAKDOWN: The Kim-Putin Pact Turns Two — and It Is Reshaping the World at Our Expense
Two years after Putin and Kim Jong Un signed their mutual defense treaty in Pyongyang, what seemed like diplomatic theater has become an operational…
FIELD REPORT: At the Évian G7, the West Finds Its Voice and Tightens the Vise on Putin
From June 15–17, 2026, the leaders of the seven major industrialized democracies met in Évian-les-Bains for what became one of the most decisive G7…
EDITORIAL: Moscow Burns, and Russia Can No Longer Fill Up Its Own Lie
We were told Russia was a wall. On June 18, 2026, Ukrainian drones breached Moscow's defenses and struck the Kapotnia refinery, 15 kilometers from…
FIELD REPORT: 992 Drones Over Moscow — The Kapotnya Refinery in Flames
On the night of June 17–18, 2026, Ukraine launched the largest drone strike of the entire war. Moscow burned. And this time, there was…
BRIEF: A 50–70 km Front Freeze — The Informal Plan Circulating, The Economist, and Trump's Envoys
The Economist reported informal contacts between Russia, Ukraine, and Trump's team have resumed, with a two-stage ceasefire including a 50–70 km buffer zone on…
EDITORIAL: £752 Million of Putin's Money to Arm Ukraine — Justice Finally Has a Price
On June 18, 2026, Britain announced 150,000 drones and 350 air defense missiles for Ukraine — funded by frozen Russian sovereign assets. The aggressor…
PORTRAIT: Four French Mirages, Sixteen Months of Combat, and Not One Shot Down by Russia
There are heroes you will never see. They fly at night, at eighteen kilometers altitude, in what experts call the most dangerous airspace on…
COLUMN: Ramstein Holds — Colby, Rutte, and the Ukraine That Changes Everything
At the 35th Ukraine Defense Contact Group in Brussels, a senior Pentagon official said — without hyperbole — that Ukraine's situation has improved. Rutte…
TESTIMONY: Dnipro Under the Bombs — Putin's Strike on the Organ Music House
Dnipro, June 2026. The city holds. It holds because its people decided long ago that capitulation was not an option — and because every…