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Battlefield wins embolden Russia as Putin hardens terms for peace
James Davis reports that Russian forces are closing in on Pokrovsk and Kupyansk, tightening control across Donbass and eyeing new offensives toward Kyiv. Moscow’s growing leverage is hardening its peace terms, stalling diplomacy, and deepening rifts within Europe.
Germany budgets €377bn path to military revival by 2035
Diego Faßnacht writes that Berlin’s €377 billion rearmament plan turns rhetoric into procurement to rebuild the Bundeswehr and its defense industry. Yet questions linger: can Germany fund, train, and staff this ambition, or will legal and logistical limits blunt Europe’s “strongest force”?
Takaichi and Trump pledge new ‘golden age’ for US-Japan alliance
Scott Foster reports from Tokyo where Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi and President Trump sealed their partnership with pageantry and pledges of deeper defense and tech cooperation, a strategy to bind Trump closer even as Tokyo braces for potential unpredictability going forward.
