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PROFILE: 9,463 Kamikaze Drones in One Day — the Face of Russia's Total War
9,463 drones in one day. That figure should appear in every Western leader's speech when they hesitate over increasing support for Ukraine. Not as…
INVESTIGATION: Rutte Plays the Trump Card — 195,000 American Jobs and NATO Under Pressure Before Ankara
A NATO chief translating Atlantic solidarity into American jobs — I wish he hadn't had to. But we live in the real world, and…
COMMENTARY: The CRINK Axis on Patrol — When Beijing and Moscow Test the Free World's Nerves
Eleven patrols in seven years. Chinese diplomatic rhetoric speaks of "neutrality" — but one does not conduct eleven joint military demonstrations of force with…
EDITORIAL: Gdańsk 2026 — 160 Agreements and €10 Billion, but the War Still Burns
I acknowledge that there is something absurd about commenting from the outside on a conference aimed at rebuilding a country fighting for its existence.…
DECODING: The UK Cuts Its Destroyers for £5 Billion in Drones — Thanks, Ukraine
There is a painful irony in this story: Ukraine is teaching the West how to fight, after the West spent years refusing to supply…
FACT-CHECK: What Ukraine's arms export mechanism actually says — and what it does not
It is tempting, faced with an announcement this symbolically powerful, to be swept along by the enthusiasm. But journalistic rigor demands precisely that one…
OPEN LETTER: Rome takes over from London — Italy leads Ukraine's cyber defense
The Tallinn Mechanism is not a line in the NATO budget. It is a voluntary construction — countries individually deciding to contribute to something…
FACT-CHECK: Did Ukraine's IT Army really pivot toward Russian military targets?
I want to begin with a warning I apply to myself: it is easy to glorify the IT Army because it is fighting for…
ESSAY: Transatlanticism as a Convenience Partnership — and Why That Is Enough, for Now
A convenience partnership. The formula is honest and a little sad. NATO was founded on the principle that democracies sharing common values would defend…