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Mark Greenmantle

@markgreenmantle.bsky.social
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Ethics, strategy, counterterrorism, anti-misogynist, and a dose of fella mischief. Commercial aviation, military, history in photography and design. #NAFO #Aviation

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Mark Greenmantle @markgreenmantle.bsky.social · 29/08/2026
This year I'm cycling for a couple of fundraisers, one of which is the Royal Flying Doctor Service Australia. This serves to help them retain remote medical aid across this vast nation. Any donations greatly appreciated. www.oceanstooutback.org.au/fundraisers/...
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Please support my challenge to keep the Flying Doctor flying!
I'm going further this October and I need your help! I've registered for Oceans to Outback, a month-long challenge to raise vital funds for the Royal Flying Doctor Service. I'll be pushing myself to t...
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Anarchists Without Borders @anarchswoborders.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
Anyone who studies domestic violence can see the same pattern in fascist propaganda. The fascist and the abuser--the same person--accuse everyone who might help of not being helpful enough and that therefore they cannot be trusted, and nobody can be trusted, so submit to the abuse/fascism instead.
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Darth Putin @darthputinkgb.bsky.social · 24/08/2026
The fact Ukraine still has an independence day in the 5th year of my 3 day war shows I remain a master strategist.
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Mark Greenmantle @markgreenmantle.bsky.social · 09/08/2026
When Trump has his back against the wall for treason, war crimes, fascism, corruption, for running his pedocabal, insider trading, and more, I hope those getting to pull the trigger can get to taunt him first, "From the radical left, the anti-fascists., consequences." Pictured, OG anti-fascists.
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Mark Greenmantle @markgreenmantle.bsky.social · 06/08/2026
Watching Russia's failures in their illegal war on Ukraine as we all are, I can see the fishermen of Ireland turning their backs at the bar to the Russian whingers, muttering that it's less a bear and more a mutant chicken. "Póg mo thóin, a amadán" www.irishpoliticsnewsletter.ie/p/russia-war...
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RUSSIA WARNS IRELAND — FOR THE EIGHTH TIME
Most serious consequences!
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RUSI @rusi.bsky.social · 29/05/2026
In the latest episode of the Suspicious Transaction Report, @keatingetom.bsky.social is joined by @liambyrnemp.bsky.social, author of 'Why Populists Are Winning and How to Beat Them', to explore the financial architecture behind contemporary populism. Listen to the episode: bit.ly/3RRVk2K
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RUSI @rusi.bsky.social · 22/05/2026
'By February 2026, roughly 90% of Gaza’s desalination and water-treatment infrastructure had been damaged or destroyed. Human Rights Watch’s December 2024 report described the destruction as deliberate.' writes Nick Loxton in the latest RUSI Commentary.
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Water and Cognitive Warfare
The targeting of water supply is being normalised by cognitive warfare. More must be done to reverse this.
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Mark Greenmantle @markgreenmantle.bsky.social · 07/05/2026
As always, Russian ceasefire requests are false flags, so I hope Moscow gets what it deserves on the 9th. ☠️
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Rick Stengel @rickstengel.bsky.social · 06/05/2026
Can reporters stop using the word deal? It’s an agreement, a settlement, a treaty, an understanding, an MOU etc. Using the word deal is accepting his simple-minded TV game-show framing and contributes to the bogus drama he is trying to create.
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Mark Greenmantle @markgreenmantle.bsky.social · 07/05/2026
@ambvasyl.bsky.social joined The Information Advantage Centre of Excellence (IACOE) hosting the 'Practitioners Workshop and Information Operations Symposium – #Disinformation and #HybridWarfare in the Current Russia- #Ukraine Conflict' in Canberra with the ADF: www.defence.gov.au/news-events/...
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Mark Greenmantle @markgreenmantle.bsky.social · 04/03/2026
The Strategist published a timely look at the current (dire) potential for Australian military mobilisation capacity in a brief introduction to the national mindset challenges faced compared to during WWII. www.aspistrategist.org.au/a-lesson-fro...
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RUSI @rusi.bsky.social · 03/03/2026
The military operations against Iran have killed Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei and begun a war that threatens to engulf the region, marking Roaring Lion and Epic Fury as significant violent events. Read the latest RUSI Commentary from Alaa Zoubi.
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Israel's ‘Roaring Lion': Military Target to Political Decision in Iran
The military operations against Iran have killed Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei and begun a war that threatens to engulf the region, marking Roaring Lion and Epic Fury as significant violent events.
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Chatham House @chathamhouse.org · 02/03/2026
If Tehran emerges either significantly enfeebled or forced into a coercive settlement with Washington, Moscow will lose leverage in the Middle East.
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The Iran war exposes the limits of Russia’s leverage in a fragmenting regional order
The war will not affect Russian plans in Ukraine – but it will likely force a rethink of long-held Russian strategic concepts.
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Gill Bennett @gillhistory.bsky.social · 28/02/2026
Very powerful piece from Jade McGlynn here: engelsbergideas.com/notebook/rus...
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Russia's empire of ruins
From blackouts in Kherson to water shortages in Luhansk, Russia’s new imperial domains in Ukraine’s occupied territories are in turmoil.
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RUSI @rusi.bsky.social · 20/10/2025
'It is not only impractical to plan for reconstitution to be ad hoc and "on-the-night", it is an immoral gamble' writes Hamish Mundell in the latest RUSI Commentary.
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The Long War: Fighting Beyond the First Battle
It is irresponsible to conceal the prospect of war from a population you will call on for second and third echelon reinforcements, for whom survival hinges on preparation.
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Foreign Affairs @foreignaffairs.com · 09/10/2025
“The United States is in the grip of an era of violent populism,” writes Robert Pape. “Left to its own momentum, political violence is likely to escalate further, with major consequences for American liberal democracy.”
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America’s New Age of Political Violence
What happens when the threat comes from both left and right.
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Chatham House @chathamhouse.org · 07/10/2025
Self-defence, terrorism and a state of conflict have all been invoked as justification for attacks by the US military near Venezuela. None are convincing.
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Attacks on ‘drug boats’ are pushing the US away from the consensus on the rules of international law
Self-defence, terrorism and a state of conflict have all been invoked as justification for attacks on the high seas. None are convincing.
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Olga Patlyuk @olgapatluyk.bsky.social · 03/10/2025
Watch carefully, everyone. The whole world must see this. This is what russia brings to the world — only dеstruction. Nothing else. This country knows no other way. Every day, russia dеstroys more and more Ukrainian cities. World, do not stay silent.
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Амбасадор дідівства @ambassador.name · 02/10/2025
Polish internal security agency ABW uncovered russian plot for terrorist attacks in Europe. The attacks were planned in Poland, Lithuania and Germany. One russian GRU agent has been arrested. How is 'we're not at war with russia' going? #UkrainianView #UAView
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Rosyjski wywiad ukrył materiały wybuchowe na cmentarzu. Podejrzane puszki wjechały do Polski
Kurier rosyjskiego wywiadu wojskowego GRU odbierał polecenia: kup łopatę, jedź na cmentarz, wykop puszki, zostaw niedaleko Łodzi. Puszki idealnie pasują do uchwytów mocowanych do dronów.
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Mark Greenmantle @markgreenmantle.bsky.social · 03/10/2025
Babet again trying to get firearms into the hands of his far right mates. Disinformation designed to cause alarm and risking harm from gun owners in Australia - unbelievably stupid. There's no place for unhinged Trumpism down under. He's unfit for Senate.
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RUSI @rusi.bsky.social · 02/10/2025
Former PM of Ukraine Arseniy Yatsenyuk took to the stage at RUSI today to warn that Putin seeks to divide the US and Europe and weaken NATO and the EU, to ultimately pave the way for a China-led global order. RUSI Members can watch the event in full: bit.ly/42ZTqjc
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Anthony Glees @anthonyglees.bsky.social · 29/09/2025
Exactly so
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Mark Greenmantle @markgreenmantle.bsky.social · 26/09/2025
Finland's suggestion for a full reform of the UN, especially of the format of the UN Security Council offers real advances in peace worldwide are exactly what's needed in the soonest instance. More Security Council members, no singular veto, and breaches see members ejected. 🛡️ youtu.be/ECaqX1hCQ6g
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Finland’s President Delivers Most Inspiring, Powerful UN Speech Yet on Multipolar World Order | AC1G
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Dr. Chase A. Thompson @chaseathompson.bsky.social · 12/09/2025
Great quotes of history, "The most difficult thing is the decision to act, the rest is merely tenacity. The fears are paper tigers. You can do anything you decide to do. You can act to change and control your life." Amelia Earhart
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Dr. Chase A. Thompson @chaseathompson.bsky.social · 12/09/2025
"There is nothing which I dread so much as a division of the republic into two great parties, each arranged under its leader, and concerting measures in opposition to each other. This, in my humble apprehension, is to be dreaded as the greatest political evil under our Constitution." -John Adams
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Mark Greenmantle @markgreenmantle.bsky.social · 12/09/2025
Hopefully Sewell will face a proper prison term for his crimes in the near future, but we're all waiting to still hear if prosecution for the Neo-Nazi attack on the first nations' sacred place camp will be assessed as domestic terrorism (& it should be). www.thenewdaily.com.au/news/crime-n...
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Neo-Nazi leader Thomas Sewell guilty of intimidating police officer
Neo-Nazi leader Thomas Sewell faces jail after being found guilty of intimidating a police officer and his wife.
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RUSI @rusi.bsky.social · 10/09/2025
In light of a recent Israeli airstrike in Qatar, RUSI's Burcu Ozcelik explores how the attack challenges the principle of state sovereignty and intensifies regional tensions. For the full analysis, visit our website: bit.ly/46wgJDu
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Mark Greenmantle @markgreenmantle.bsky.social · 08/09/2025
Ukraine should safeguard its cutting edge drone development and block war criminal Erik Prince recently in Kyiv seeking to buy stakes in drone and other battle tech. His long term ties to Russian assets are not to be ignored - by @olgalautman.bsky.social open.substack.com/pub/olgalaut...
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War Criminal Erik Prince Was Just In Ukraine
We are living through a nightmare version of Groundhog Day, where, because no one is ever truly held accountable, we are forced to relive the same cycle of corruption, espionage, and betrayal over and...
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RUSI @rusi.bsky.social · 22/08/2025
'Most importantly, the successful implementation of the EU’s new Black Sea strategy will depend not only on internal cohesion within the EU, but also on effective alignment with regional stakeholders – both littoral and non-littoral states' writes Natia Seskuria in the latest RUSI Commentary.
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A Strategy Long Overdue: The EU's New Vision for the Black Sea
The EU's Black Sea strategy is a vital first step towards protecting the region, and how it is implemented will serve as a key test of the EU's credibility.
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Bellingcat @bellingcat.com · 22/08/2025
Finally @tristanl.ee and @stevanzetti.bsky.social's work identifying white extremist networks in Texas and online has been nominated for the Al Neuharth Innovation in Investigative Journalism Award awards.journalists.org/entries/open...
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Open-Source Extremist Identifications - Online Journalism Awards
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Mark Greenmantle @markgreenmantle.bsky.social · 10/08/2025
Retired Australian Army Major General Mick Ryan summarises a few topics on global security in this post, all worthy reads, yet I'll focus here on the one, Ukraine. Txt in screenshot, link follows. @warinthefuture.bsky.social mickryan.substack.com/p/trumps-pea...
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Mark Greenmantle @markgreenmantle.bsky.social · 08/08/2025
Australian navy should go hybrid to outlast a big war | The Strategist share.google/qYTERjSejQiX...
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Australian navy should go hybrid to outlast a big war | The Strategist
The Royal Australian Navy’s force structure of small numbers of warships and submarines is ill-suited to major wars. These vessels simply take far too long to build. For the RAN to stay relevant to ma...
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Mark Greenmantle @markgreenmantle.bsky.social · 06/08/2025
Once again, Germany's far right wing AfD party has been exposed as a risk to EU security, this time via either failure to vet staff for job security or being complicit in having direct ties back to Chinese intelligence agencies. www.euronews.com/my-europe/20...
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Ex-aide to AfD lawmaker goes on trial in Germany for spying for China
Two suspected spies for China, including a former aide to Alternative for Germany (AfD) lawmaker Maximilian Krah, have gone on trial in Dresden. #EuropeNews
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War on the Rocks @warontherocks.bsky.social · 04/07/2025
Paris is publicly pointing the finger — and it’s aimed at Moscow. warontherocks.com/20...
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Calling Out Russia: France’s Shift on Public Attribution - War on the Rocks
Is silence strategic when your adversary barely hides? For years, France maintained a policy of quiet restraint, generally refusing to publicly name
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Mark Greenmantle @markgreenmantle.bsky.social · 03/07/2025
Of course the usual suspects. Orcs. Researchers home in on origins of Russia’s Baltic GPS jamming www.defensenews.com/global/europ...
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Researchers home in on origins of Russia’s Baltic GPS jamming
Analysts have been tracking Russian electronic warfare from across the Gdańsk Bay, pinpointing familiar sites in Kaliningrad.
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Elena Grossfeld @kloosha.bsky.social · 30/06/2025
Excited to share my latest research examining how Russia's sabotage operations could extend from Europe to orbit. The space domain presents unique vulnerabilities that mirror—and amplify—the hybrid threats we're already seeing on Earth.
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CyberLens Newsletter @cyberlensnews.bsky.social · 29/06/2025
The FBI warns of Scattered Spider attacks on airlines using advanced social engineering and are grounding trust in aviation cybersecurity. #Cybersecurity #AviationThreat #ScatteredSpider #FBIAlert #SocialEngineering #Infosec #CyberLens #ZeroTrust cyberlens.beehiiv.com/p/high-flyin...
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High-Flying Threat: FBI Warns of Scattered Spider’s Expanding Airline Attacks
Ruthless Social Engineering Campaigns Target Aviation Giants as Scattered Spider Reinvents Its Tactics
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Veli-Pekka Kivimäki @vpkivimaki.bsky.social · 28/06/2025
Agree with @davidpriess.bsky.social 100%: investments in intelligence should not be bypassed while Europe makes historic raises in defense spending. Good observations on making intelligence relevant for the policymaker in his recent article. icds.ee/en/seizing-t...
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Seizing the Opportunity to Enhance Intelligence-Policy Relations - ICDS
The unusual geopolitical moment created by Russia's full-scale invasion of Ukraine and, now, by the shift in official US policy and tone present enormous challenges for Europe’s political leaders, nat...
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David Priess @davidpriess.bsky.social · 28/06/2025
How to motivate citizens to contribute to national defense? Using the Finnish case, @alanderminna.bsky.social highlights two elements: “a threat perception on the negative side, and the feeling that the country is worth defending on the positive side.” phillipspobrien.substack.com/p/fighting-f...
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Fighting For Your Country
In this week’s Europe Dispatch, Minna Ålander continues on a topic related to last week’s discussion on conscription: what makes people willing to defend their country, and why that matters.
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Mark Greenmantle @markgreenmantle.bsky.social · 26/06/2025
Grey zone warfare veering closer to stark black and white. Russian Saboteurs Reportedly Torch German Military Trucks in Erfurt in Brazen Attack on NATO Soil — UNITED24 Media united24media.com/latest-news/...
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Russian Saboteurs Reportedly Torch German Military Trucks in Erfurt in Brazen Attack on NATO Soil
At a Bundeswehr base in Erfurt, Germany, an arson attack reportedly destroyed six military trucks, raising concerns about Russian sabotage on NATO territory.
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Andrii Katriuk 🇺🇦 @andriikatriuk.bsky.social · 26/06/2025
How's it going folks? [44] #UkrainianView
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Mark Greenmantle @markgreenmantle.bsky.social · 26/06/2025
The deployment to Lithuania isn’t just a policy decision. It’s a strategic pivot. Germany’s finally aligning its military commitments with its political and economic weight. www.aspistrategist.org.au/germany-step...
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Germany steps up from reluctant power to Baltic deterrent | The Strategist
Germany’s decision to permanently station a combat brigade in Lithuania is more than a military deployment. It’s a strategic signal that Berlin is finally ready to lead from the front. The foreign bas...
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Luca Trenta @lucatrenta.bsky.social · 20/06/2025
'By mistaking language as merely a tool that’s a means to an end—little different from a spatula—too many people have lost sight of the fact that understanding language provides the basis of smart thinking.' www.forkingpaths.co/p/the-death-...
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The Death of the Student Essay—and the Future of Cognition
One professor's reflections on the end of an era, as AI tools such as ChatGPT have murdered the student essay (RIP). Here's why that threatens the future of human cognition—and how to save ourselves.
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UNITED24 @u24.gov.ua · 13/06/2025
Requesting NAFO Article5, Paragraph 24: #DarkNight🫡 Together with Fellas, we've successfully closed 4 drone fundraisers to fight off russian invaders. This time, let's fundraise an air defense turret to protect Ukrainians from terrorist UAVs and name it, too: u24.gov.ua/nafo-dark-ni...
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Mark Greenmantle @markgreenmantle.bsky.social · 16/06/2025
Looking weaker than ever, Trump whined to G7 members that Putin was kicked out of what was the G8. Over and over he shows clearly he's under Putin's thumb. The Kompromat would barely count for much these days but he's clearly submissive to Russia.
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Mark Greenmantle @markgreenmantle.bsky.social · 15/06/2025
"...any nuclear strike to eradicate a developing nuclear programme would destabilize the entire international security architecture, invite further proliferation – and create a frightening precedent"
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Secrets & Spies Podcast: Global Affairs | Intelligence @secretsandspies.bsky.social · 14/06/2025
Democratic state politician dead, another shot in targeted attack in Minnesota, officials say www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/cv...
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Democratic state politician dead, another shot in targeted attack in Minnesota, officials say - live updates
Melissa Hortman and her husband have been killed, while another local Democrat and his wife have been injured, Governor Tim Walz says.
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Mark Greenmantle @markgreenmantle.bsky.social · 13/06/2025
US for JAG attorney offers free legal advice to soldiers deployed to cities given unlawful orders regarding force or policing duties against civilians. www.instagram.com/reel/DK0ool2...
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RUSI @rusi.bsky.social · 12/06/2025
Democracies need to fight back against harmful disinformation. Sanctions can be a useful tool to counter malign operations – if enforced correctly, writes Balázs Gyimesi in the latest RUSI Commentary.
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Defending Democracy: Sanctions on Disinformation
Democracies need to fight back against harmful disinformation. Sanctions can be a useful tool to counter malign operations – if enforced correctly.
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