SIGNAL No. 80
‘No plan, no minister’
Thursday · 11 June 2026
Britain’s Defence Investment Plan was due; what arrived was the defence secretary’s resignation — and the distance between declared and funded ran through the whole day: NATO’s commander confirmed the capabilities Washington will withdraw, eight firms offered Berlin a fighter that still has no requirement and no money behind it,…

SIGNAL No. 79
‘Russia's rear on rations’
Wednesday · 10 June 2026
Russia’s rear is being run as an interdicted space — Mariupol’s port dark, the Chonhar bridge twice-hit, military cargo reportedly banned from the Rostov–Crimea highway, fuel sales restricted in twenty regions — while a second Flamingo in five weeks went through the same Cheboksary guidance plant; at ILA Berlin, Merz gave…