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“Some see the limited fallout — in a public arena where infidelity or even smoking marijuana were once enough to sink a career — as a reflection of the diminished standards of the Trump era, when Trump’s indiscretions has led to a greater tolerance of scandal.” www.politico.com/news/2026/02...
The Epstein scandal is taking down Europe’s political class. In the US, they’re getting a pass.
As Europe moves to address its shame, it’s highlighting the comparative lack of accountability in the U.S.
www.politico.com
February 8, 2026 at 7:15 AM
“Some see the limited fallout — in a public arena where infidelity or even smoking marijuana were once enough to sink a career — as a reflection of the diminished standards of the Trump era, when Trump’s indiscretions has led to a greater tolerance of scandal.” www.politico.com/news/2026/02...
“Cyber warfare has evolved at a higher level in warfighting, because it is now being integrated with kinetic warfighting elements in attack plans. This is a big deal.” www.nytimes.com/2026/01/27/u...
How Computer Warfare Is Becoming Part of the Pentagon’s Arsenal
www.nytimes.com
January 28, 2026 at 7:08 AM
“Cyber warfare has evolved at a higher level in warfighting, because it is now being integrated with kinetic warfighting elements in attack plans. This is a big deal.” www.nytimes.com/2026/01/27/u...
“The taboo around discussing Hizbullah’s disarmament has evaporated; Lebanese television panel shows now debate it openly.” www.economist.com/middle-east-...
Hizbullah, Iran’s most powerful proxy, has been humbled
The militia is still a force in Lebanese politics, but its ability to menace abroad has been severely weakened
www.economist.com
January 28, 2026 at 6:51 AM
“The taboo around discussing Hizbullah’s disarmament has evaporated; Lebanese television panel shows now debate it openly.” www.economist.com/middle-east-...
“Authorities have already seized mobile devices from officers who rose through the ranks with Zhang and Gen. Liu Zhenli, chief of the Joint Staff, whose investigation was also announced Saturday, as thousands of officers with ties to the men become potential targets.” www.wsj.com/world/china/...
Exclusive | China’s Top General Accused of Giving Nuclear Secrets to U.S.
Bribery allegations have also been leveled against Gen. Zhang Youxia, whose downfall carries implications for the country’s military readiness.
www.wsj.com
January 25, 2026 at 8:09 PM
“Authorities have already seized mobile devices from officers who rose through the ranks with Zhang and Gen. Liu Zhenli, chief of the Joint Staff, whose investigation was also announced Saturday, as thousands of officers with ties to the men become potential targets.” www.wsj.com/world/china/...
“There is a shift in U.S. policy and in many ways it is permanent. Waiting it out is not a solution. What needs to be done is an orderly and coordinated movement to a new reality.” www.politico.eu/article/dona...
Trump’s Greenland threats push Europe toward divorcing America
With NATO thrown into question, some officials see the “coalition of the willing” as the basis for a new alliance without the U.S.
www.politico.eu
January 19, 2026 at 3:24 PM
“There is a shift in U.S. policy and in many ways it is permanent. Waiting it out is not a solution. What needs to be done is an orderly and coordinated movement to a new reality.” www.politico.eu/article/dona...
“China quietly mobilized thousands of fishing boats twice in recent weeks to form massive floating barriers of at least 200 miles long, showing a new level of coordination that could give Beijing more ways to impose control in contested seas.” www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
Thousands of Chinese Fishing Boats Quietly Form Vast Sea Barriers
China is practicing vast maneuvers that could be used to disrupt U.S. naval movement, a New York Times analysis of ship data reveals.
www.nytimes.com
January 17, 2026 at 7:15 AM
“China quietly mobilized thousands of fishing boats twice in recent weeks to form massive floating barriers of at least 200 miles long, showing a new level of coordination that could give Beijing more ways to impose control in contested seas.” www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
“De Kustwacht heeft te weinig informatie en mensen om verdachte signalen goed te analyseren. Het is meermaals voorgekomen dat een door de Kustwacht ontvangen signaal pas een paar dagen later door inlichtingendiensten of marine werd geduid.“ www.nrc.nl/nieuws/2026/...
Kustwacht kan niets uitrichten tegen spionage op de Noordzee wegens gesteggel over geld
Spionage: Rusland heeft het gemunt op internet- en elektriciteitskabels op de Noordzee. Maar de Nederlandse Kustwacht komt zo veel personeel en geld tekort dat het deze kritieke infrastructuur niet ka...
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January 14, 2026 at 3:45 PM
“De Kustwacht heeft te weinig informatie en mensen om verdachte signalen goed te analyseren. Het is meermaals voorgekomen dat een door de Kustwacht ontvangen signaal pas een paar dagen later door inlichtingendiensten of marine werd geduid.“ www.nrc.nl/nieuws/2026/...
“The Venezuelan armed forces were practically unprepared for the U.S. attack. Their troops were not dispersed, the detection radar was not activated, deployed or operational. It was a chain of errors that allowed the United States to operate with ease.” www.nytimes.com/2026/01/12/w...
Russia’s Fearsome Arsenal Fizzled in Venezuela. Here’s Why.
www.nytimes.com
January 12, 2026 at 3:49 PM
“The Venezuelan armed forces were practically unprepared for the U.S. attack. Their troops were not dispersed, the detection radar was not activated, deployed or operational. It was a chain of errors that allowed the United States to operate with ease.” www.nytimes.com/2026/01/12/w...
“Despite the growing importance of subsea cables, the laws and institutions governing them have not kept pace.” www.foreignaffairs.com/new-arteries...
The New Arteries of Power
Subsea Cables Are This Century’s Hidden Battleground
www.foreignaffairs.com
January 6, 2026 at 10:26 AM
“Despite the growing importance of subsea cables, the laws and institutions governing them have not kept pace.” www.foreignaffairs.com/new-arteries...
“The CIA team remained undetected for months while it was in the country. The intelligence gathered, combined with a human source close to Mr. Maduro and a fleet of stealth drones flying secretly above, enabled the agency to map out minute details about his routines.” www.nytimes.com/2026/01/03/u...
Inside ‘Operation Absolute Resolve,’ the U.S. Effort to Capture Maduro
www.nytimes.com
January 4, 2026 at 10:23 AM
“The CIA team remained undetected for months while it was in the country. The intelligence gathered, combined with a human source close to Mr. Maduro and a fleet of stealth drones flying secretly above, enabled the agency to map out minute details about his routines.” www.nytimes.com/2026/01/03/u...
“Foucault and his philosophical kin wrote some of the source code for the woke in the last century. But it took Americans to turn it into an organised force, which the US right was powerless to stop until the movement itself over-reached.” www.ft.com/content/ccbe...
Maga’s strange rage against Europe
The cradle of western civilisation is wrongly accused of betraying it
www.ft.com
January 3, 2026 at 7:19 AM
“Foucault and his philosophical kin wrote some of the source code for the woke in the last century. But it took Americans to turn it into an organised force, which the US right was powerless to stop until the movement itself over-reached.” www.ft.com/content/ccbe...
“The CIA secretly taught Ukraine how to target crucial components of Russia’s oil refining infrastructure and its sanction-busting shadow fleet, according to officials.” www.telegraph.co.uk/world-news/2...
January 1, 2026 at 12:10 PM
“The CIA secretly taught Ukraine how to target crucial components of Russia’s oil refining infrastructure and its sanction-busting shadow fleet, according to officials.” www.telegraph.co.uk/world-news/2...
“The general started sending Hegseth the same daily reports only to be told they were too long. He sent abbreviated daily reports, only to be told they were too frequent and still too long. Henceforth, Cavoli would send a single weekly summary, 4 or 5 sentences long.” www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
The Separation: Inside the Unraveling U.S.-Ukraine Partnership (Gift Article)
As President Trump sought a peace deal and Vladimir V. Putin sought victory, factions in the White House and Pentagon bled the Ukrainian war effort.
www.nytimes.com
January 1, 2026 at 12:07 PM
“The general started sending Hegseth the same daily reports only to be told they were too long. He sent abbreviated daily reports, only to be told they were too frequent and still too long. Henceforth, Cavoli would send a single weekly summary, 4 or 5 sentences long.” www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
“Europeans did agree that they are not ready. On average 69% said their country would not be able to defend itself against Russia, including 85% of Italians, 69% of Germans, 58% of Poles and 51% of the French.” www.economist.com/europe/2025/...
www.economist.com
December 31, 2025 at 9:36 AM
“Europeans did agree that they are not ready. On average 69% said their country would not be able to defend itself against Russia, including 85% of Italians, 69% of Germans, 58% of Poles and 51% of the French.” www.economist.com/europe/2025/...
“Shadow warfare is changing. Countries are now using proxy agents: criminals, freelancers and online recruits to carry out acts of sabotage while keeping their own agents out of sight.” www.thetimes.com/video/origin...
Spying for Russia: how British civilians are recruited as proxies
As sabotage is outsourced to freelancers, we explore the global digital game of cat-and-mouse
www.thetimes.com
December 28, 2025 at 12:41 PM
“Shadow warfare is changing. Countries are now using proxy agents: criminals, freelancers and online recruits to carry out acts of sabotage while keeping their own agents out of sight.” www.thetimes.com/video/origin...
“The Chinese would only have to calculate the number of missiles and drones the U.S. could intercept at any one time and deploy more than that—which, considering Chinese manufacturing capacity, would not be a challenge.” www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2025/1...
A ‘Trump Class’ Folly on the High Seas
Ukraine sees the future of naval warfare. The White House doesn’t.
www.theatlantic.com
December 28, 2025 at 6:22 AM
“The Chinese would only have to calculate the number of missiles and drones the U.S. could intercept at any one time and deploy more than that—which, considering Chinese manufacturing capacity, would not be a challenge.” www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2025/1...
“The developments in eastern Yemen point to a quiet but consequential Riyadh—Abu Dhabi rivalry, one whose spillover effects risk intensifying proxy violence across both Yemen, Sudan and beyond.” www.ft.com/content/9c30...
Saudi strikes UAE-backed faction in Yemen as Gulf rift deepens
Crisis has laid bare the increasingly fraught relations between Riyadh and Abu Dhabi
www.ft.com
December 28, 2025 at 12:35 AM
“The developments in eastern Yemen point to a quiet but consequential Riyadh—Abu Dhabi rivalry, one whose spillover effects risk intensifying proxy violence across both Yemen, Sudan and beyond.” www.ft.com/content/9c30...
“Mensen die binnen een kilometer van een geitenhouderij wonen, hebben 19 procent meer kans op een longontsteking dan andere Nederlanders. Voor mensen die minder dan 500 meter van een geitenhouderij wonen, is de kans zelfs 73 procent hoger.” nos.nl/artikel/2596...
'Merendeel geitenhouderijen zit te dicht op zorglocaties en basisscholen'
Bij 60 procent van de geitenhouderijen is de afstand van dergelijke instellingen minder dan een kilometer. Bij 20 procent is dat zelfs minder dan een halve kilometer, meldt het FD.
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December 27, 2025 at 2:29 AM
“Mensen die binnen een kilometer van een geitenhouderij wonen, hebben 19 procent meer kans op een longontsteking dan andere Nederlanders. Voor mensen die minder dan 500 meter van een geitenhouderij wonen, is de kans zelfs 73 procent hoger.” nos.nl/artikel/2596...
“Witkoff has declined multiple offers from the CIA for a briefing on Russia. The State Department assigned a group of staffers to support him, but members of that team, and others across the administration, have struggled to get summaries of Witkoff’s foreign meetings.” www.wsj.com/world/putin-...
How Putin Got His Preferred U.S. Envoy: Come Alone, No CIA
The Kremlin fueled the rise of Trump’s friend Steve Witkoff with a prisoner release, sidelining career diplomats.
www.wsj.com
December 21, 2025 at 1:39 AM
“Witkoff has declined multiple offers from the CIA for a briefing on Russia. The State Department assigned a group of staffers to support him, but members of that team, and others across the administration, have struggled to get summaries of Witkoff’s foreign meetings.” www.wsj.com/world/putin-...
“There should be a full fledged investigation into every government employee who knew about this document and allowed a narrative to be publicized that it did not exist.” www.nytimes.com/2025/12/19/u...
Epstein Files Include 1996 Child Porn Complaint That F.B.I. Ignored
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December 20, 2025 at 8:38 AM
“There should be a full fledged investigation into every government employee who knew about this document and allowed a narrative to be publicized that it did not exist.” www.nytimes.com/2025/12/19/u...
“In 1989, Gen. Xu Qinxian defied orders to crush the pro-democracy protests in Beijing. Now, leaked video from his court-martial is on YouTube.” www.nytimes.com/2025/12/17/w...
The Secret Trial of the General Who Refused to Attack Tiananmen Square
www.nytimes.com
December 18, 2025 at 10:45 PM
“In 1989, Gen. Xu Qinxian defied orders to crush the pro-democracy protests in Beijing. Now, leaked video from his court-martial is on YouTube.” www.nytimes.com/2025/12/17/w...
“All the official sources across multiple agencies who spoke to this masthead said there was consensus in the law enforcement community that Australia’s firearms monitoring systems are badly outdated and plagued by siloing and jurisdictional inconsistencies.” www.theage.com.au/politics/fed...
Bondi shooter was interviewed two years before father was granted a gun licence
ASIO and NSW Police both interviewed Naveed Akram over his associations with Islamic extremists long before his father obtained a gun licence.
www.theage.com.au
December 18, 2025 at 12:03 PM
“All the official sources across multiple agencies who spoke to this masthead said there was consensus in the law enforcement community that Australia’s firearms monitoring systems are badly outdated and plagued by siloing and jurisdictional inconsistencies.” www.theage.com.au/politics/fed...
“Belgian politicians and senior finance executives have been subject to a campaign of intimidation orchestrated by Russian intelligence aimed at persuading the country to block the use of €185bn assets for Ukraine.” www.theguardian.com/world/2025/d...
Belgian politicians and finance bosses targeted by Russian intelligence over seized assets
Exclusive: Key figures at frozen assets depository among targets of intimidation campaign, say European intelligence agencies
www.theguardian.com
December 18, 2025 at 6:29 AM
“Belgian politicians and senior finance executives have been subject to a campaign of intimidation orchestrated by Russian intelligence aimed at persuading the country to block the use of €185bn assets for Ukraine.” www.theguardian.com/world/2025/d...
“China's machine is operational and successfully generating extreme ultraviolet light, but has not yet produced working chips.” www.reuters.com/world/china/...
Exclusive: How China built its ‘Manhattan Project’ to rival the West in AI chips
In a high-security Shenzhen laboratory, Chinese scientists have built a prototype of a machine capable of producing cutting-edge semiconductor chips that power artificial intelligence, smartphones and...
www.reuters.com
December 18, 2025 at 5:51 AM
“China's machine is operational and successfully generating extreme ultraviolet light, but has not yet produced working chips.” www.reuters.com/world/china/...
“The Kandahar-based hard-liners who lead the regime appear comfortably in control in conservative southern Afghanistan and may not need to pool their resources there. But they are competing with a faction that’s active in the capital and east of the country.” www.washingtonpost.com/world/intera...
Trump wants Bagram back. Satellite images show how the Taliban are using it.
Taliban propaganda has depicted a flurry of activity at former U.S. bases in Afghanistan. Aerial images show aircraft decoys and equipment scavenged for parts.
www.washingtonpost.com
December 13, 2025 at 9:21 AM
“The Kandahar-based hard-liners who lead the regime appear comfortably in control in conservative southern Afghanistan and may not need to pool their resources there. But they are competing with a faction that’s active in the capital and east of the country.” www.washingtonpost.com/world/intera...