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Entre Amis, 1976. Entre Ennemis, 2026
Canada says it was attacked. Fifty years after Ottawa gave America a book celebrating their border friendship, Carney walked from a trade deal…
 • Michael Bociurkiw
The Week Washington Stopped Pretending
World Briefing Plus: A 1930 law aimed at Canada, the last carrier out of Asia, and drills cut to flatter Kim Jong Un. Three stories, one lesson - and…
 • Michael Bociurkiw
Russia Isn't Closing Odesa's Back Door. It's Jamming It
Death by a thousand diversions — friction is cheaper than a blockade, and harder to dramatise
 • Michael Bociurkiw
The Concession Racket
Trump gives up the drills for nothing · Moscow fires ballistics at Kyiv · the last anti-war party is jailed off the ballot · Putin hasn't risked Sochi…
 • Michael Bociurkiw
Zelensky's Most Dangerous Day
His ousted defence minister wants elections. Hours later, a money-laundering probe reached the presidential office.
 • Michael Bociurkiw
Everyone's Out of Office. Except the One Man Who Can't Be
Macron got caught on a jet ski, Sánchez on the wrong island, Burnham two weeks into the job. In Kyiv, the president hasn't taken a holiday since 2020 …
 • Michael Bociurkiw
The Ally That Cannot Say No
Trump cut the Korea drills with a social media post. But Seoul has been quietly losing pieces of its defence all year — and the men who fought for…
 • Michael Bociurkiw
Vacancy in the Western Pacific
Washington pulls its last carrier out. Hanoi starts cutting steel for a navy that assumes nobody is coming.
 • Michael Bociurkiw
The Unreliable Ally
World Briefing Plus: From Bangkok to Odesa, the price of American distraction, and why Zelensky's next phone call should be to Beijing
 • Michael Bociurkiw
China Goes Prospecting in Iran
For just $4,200 a workshop, Beijing is getting an early look at Iran’s rare earths - and showing how knowledge can move where sanctioned goods cannot
 • Michael Bociurkiw
The Speech That Never Said “China”
Washington’s top defence policy official told Southeast Asia to stop hedging. He just couldn’t bring himself to name the threat
 • Michael Bociurkiw
Two Wars Built Europe's Busiest Airport. Concrete Will Keep It
Istanbul has passed Heathrow while running well below capacity. London is still re-litigating a third runway
 • Michael Bociurkiw
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