'Will Iran escalate? Will Hezbollah? This is the wrong question, not least because it is what they want us to ask. A better question is: how does Iran stand to gain from the current state of affairs?'

Good new article by Jay Mens, Jay Mens, Belfer Center Belfer Center's Applied History Project on exactly…

Great to be back in Blighty

Stopped by my local Waterstones and picked up a copy of this cracking looking work by ⁦Peter Apps⁩

Looking forward to getting stuck in

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'What would winning look like? China’s communist rulers would give up trying to prevail in a hot or cold conflict with the United States and its friends.'

A useful article on US-China relations, and what 'victory' would look like

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'Between 2017 and 2021, the Austrian warrant says, Ott collected sensitive information on people of interest to Russia “for the purpose of transmission to Jan Marsalek and to unknown representatives of Russian authorities” by conducting numerous searches in national police…

Insanity

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Reminder:

Hong Kong customs to alert police if visitors caught with seditious materials
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For anyone interested in the Kinahan cartel, The Sunday Times Ireland and Bellingcat will be publishing another major story shortly after midnight. #kinahancartel #organisedcrime #sanctions

“Russia has made “thousands” of attempts to interfere with European rail networks in a campaign to destabilise the EU and sabotage critical infrastructure, the Czech Republic’s transport minister has said.” ft.com/content/f82078…

Mark S. Zaid As a CIA officer, I was injured in Moscow in ‘17, then sent to NIH AHI study in ‘19. Since early ‘21, I have been undergoing treatment by DoD docs at Walter Reed
The NICoE - & was diagnosed by same docs w/traumatic brain injury (TBI). Don't tell me this isn't real. Receipts..

To those journalists who are questioning the diagnosis of TBI, or lapping up IC denials …. Here you go, from DoD docs. That I am compelled to put my personal health records out there is disgusting, but obviously required. Multiple other victims have the same diagnoses.

BREAKING: Antony Blinken used meetings with European allies to warn that China was aiding Russia 'at a concerning scale'

'The warrant against Ott contains significant new information and indicates that Austria — a country with deep ties to Moscow, permissive espionage laws and a political establishment dogged by corruption and scandal in recent years — was at the heart of Marsalek’s own network.'…

The former Austrian intelligence officer Egisto Ott is said to have spied on people for #Russia , providing Moscow with sensitive information. Among them: an FSB deserter, a former banker and Christo Grozev, whose apartment in Vienna was then broken into. tagesschau.de/investigativ/o…

'I think Russian propaganda has made its way into the United States, unfortunately, and it’s infected a good chunk of my party’s base,' says House Foreign Relations Committee Chairman, Michael McCaul.

My latest.

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NEW: Trump Media only made it to its stock market debut last week after being loaned millions in 2022 by a Russian-American — who came under criminal investigation after his friend insider traded on the Trump Media deal. The Guardian exclusive theguardian.com/us-news/2024/a…

'The attack was detected and stopped before it could cause widespread damage.'

A remarkable piece of on-line human intelligence

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'Paxum Bank does not offer loans in the US as it lacks a US banking license and is not regulated by the FDIC. Postolnikov appears to have used the trust to loan money to help save Trump Media – and the Truth Social platform – because his bank itself could not furnish the loan'…

That same year, Putin created a military R&D program that was tasked with developing 'directed energy weapons', among other 'futuristic' weapons. This was clearly Putin's pet project.