Mastodawn

via @[email protected] I haven't finished this article yet, but it reminds me of another really important article I have read all the way through 1/2

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Joanna Bryson Feb 20

www.newyorker.com/magazine/202... Norway Russia Arctic – but mostly how Russia weaponises right-wing views, and Christianity. At the #cinemaForPeace #worldSummit some people were sure RU invaded UA because CN wanted them to. I'm more persuaded RU wants to be bigger so CN doesn't make RU irrelevant.

Russia’s Espionage War in the ...

Russia’s Espionage War in the Arctic

For years, Russia has been using the Norwegian town of Kirkenes, which borders its nuclear stronghold, as a laboratory, testing intelligence operations there before replicating them across Europe, Ben Taub writes.

The New Yorker

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Joanna Bryson Feb 21

Working my way through @[email protected]'s article; I can't believe: 1) The EU hasn't realised which party is in office impacts the quality of US information. 2) Not just DE's FDP, but US & UK didn't get what I got from 3 hours of opensource laptop research re: Ukraine's 2014-2022 war prep.

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Joanna Bryson

So in the end, Ukraine WAS like Iraq. The US has great access to people next to leaders, but those leaders are deluded about their own capacities (IIRC, the FT wrote once that Hussein thought he'd restarted his nuke programme, but the UN inspectors were right because his physicists lied to him.)