Mr Linke, a 52-year-old father of two, is the alleged double agent in Germany’s foreign intelligence service (BND) arrested for treason last December
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We spent 2022 being told Russia would cut production to spike oil prices and drive the West into recession. What actually happened is that production rose from 2021. Putin is fightin an expensive war. He needs cash desperately, so can't cut output. The West holds all the cards...
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Key Republicans launch to pressure Biden to send ATACMS to Ukraine defenseone.com/policy/2023/02 my latest
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Casually waiting for those demanding hearings on the balloon to discover Chinese balloon crossings happened three times under the previous administration w no consequences defense.gov/News/News-Stor
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BREAKING: Portugal agrees to supply Leopard-2 tanks to Ukraine
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DEFINITIVE CHINESE SPY BALLOON THREAD!!!🎈
Nobody asked for it.
I'm doing it.
Here's everything technical you might want to know.... 🧵
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Where were you at the dawn of neo-Victorian balloon warfare?
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On 2022-01-31 #RCAF CC-150 Polaris 15005 supported CF-188 Hornets from #4WingColdLake, using call sign #HUSK99, a #NORAD operational call sign; not a domestic operation or an exercise.
This was to intercept the foreign hostile aircraft crossing BC.
#ADSBexchange #C2B37D
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Today's positive payrolls surprise is the biggest we have on record at +3.6 standard deviations, with the exception of exactly a year ago (+3.8). You don't get this kind of positive surprise if recession is imminent, so this report ends US recession fears. USD is much too low...
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As we’ve covered… Russian weapons maker looking to equip, train ground robots against Western-supplied tanks (But a lot of parts are foreign and increasingly hard to get) defenseone.com/technology/202
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Russia’s Dmitry Rogozin via his Telegram channel: “Marker UGVs have arrived in Donbas. We will start uploading target images and combat algorithms, and will install anti-tank weapons.” t.me/rogozin_do/3690
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1/ QUICK THREAD: How does Ukrainian military use small quadcopters to constantly keep pressure on the Russian forces? This pro-Kremlin Telegram post offered a few details - main points below:
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Kinda a big first move
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Today, I spoke with the president of Taiwan Tsai Ing-wen. I thanked her for her congratulations and I assured her that Taiwan and the Czech Republic share the values of freedom, democracy, and human rights. We agreed on strengthening our partnership.
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US has stopped issuing licenses to US companies to export to Huawei as the US administration is getting closer to imposing a total ban on American technology sale to the Chinese telecommunications company;
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When May a Robot Kill? New DOD Policy Tries to Clarify | An updated policy tweaks wording in a bid to dispel confusion, writes . Read the story:
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Test Flight Brings Hypersonic Program to Successful Close, DARPA Says defenseone.com/technology/202 my latest for
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Retired NATO General Petr Pavel has been elected as the new president of the Czech Republic in the presidential election against his populist challenger Andrej Babis. He is strongly in favor of the EU and NATO as well as the military aid for Ukraine. #Europe #CzechRepublic
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When the message from the troops is: 'We miss the comforts of Siberia!' you maybe have a morale problem
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1/ Mobilised Russians from Siberia are upset that their commanders lied to them about where they would be serving, say they are living in appalling conditions with little equipment or supplies, and appeal for relief after suffering heavy losses on the front line. 
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SCOOP: Japan and the Netherlands will join US semiconductor export controls in a big foreign policy win for the Biden administration. Negotiations on track to be done tomorrow. Japanese and Dutch officials are in Washington to finalize details tonight.
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Defending democracy abroad, undermining it home...
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At the beginning of an election year, the Polish ruling party begins altering electoral laws and media laws, in order to make sure that they don't lose wyborcza.pl/7,82983,294004
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A Russian manufacturer says it is adapting one of its ground robots to target Abrams and Leopard tanks—the types heading to Ukraine from the United States, Germany, Poland and other countries. But is it all just a PR stunt? defenseone.com/technology/202 My latest for
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. on Senate floor calls for Biden Administration to send ATACMS to Ukraine and “advanced drones like the Gray Eagle and the Reaper. We should deliver these assets quickly to make an immediate difference on the battlefield in concert with our allies.”
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But I was assured this was all a hoax! Bill Barr asked Italian officials to discredit Russia probe — they responded with evidence linking Trump to crimes
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Did you think the Pentagon had a hard rule against using lethal autonomous weapons? It doesn’t. But it does have hoops to jump through before such a weapon might be deployed—and, as of Wednesday, a revised policy, writes
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Then there's the Bradley Fighting Vehicles, the French AMX-10s and lots of tank-ish fighting vehicles, hundreds, heading to Ukraine in weeks and months
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Some 90 refurbished Russian T-72s, announced in November, are about to go to Ukraine
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Germany has said that it would provide 14 German-made Leopard 2 tanks. But Poland and other allies will provide their Leopard 2 tanks with the ultimate goal of outfitting the Ukrainians with 88 of them. Those will hit the field much faster.
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The tanks won't be available for months, as the US is procuring them, as opposed to pulling them via Presidential drawdown authority, but a LOT of new armor from allies is about to hit the field
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NEW: The United States will be sending 31, or the equivalent of one Ukrainian tank battalion, M1 Abrams tanks to Ukraine after training tank crews on the vehicles in the months ahead. Story coming
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Is there literally one single product associated with this man that does not explode for no reason
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White House Announcement on M1 Abrams Tanks Expected Tomorrow -
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Is This New Microwave Weapon the Answer to Iranian Drones? | by
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Bipartisan effort here to normalize having classified documents at home. #everybodydoesit
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NEWS: DOJ sent FBI agents to retrieve a "small number" of classified documents from Mike Pence's Indiana residence last week, while Pence was in DC at the March for Life.
Read the Jan. 18 + 22 letters from PENCE to NARA here:
documentcloud.org/documents/2358
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1/ QUICK THREAD on the Russian discussions about the striking gap between "Kalibr" missiles and quadcopters - info from pro-Kremlin Telegram channels, with main points translated below.
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🚨 EXCLUSIVE INVESTIGATION - A vast cache of hacked material from Russia has shed new light on how the UK govt helped warlord Prigozhin mount a targeted legal attack on a journalist in London. This is #londongrad writ large.
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Former special agent In charge Of the New York FBI Counterintelligence Division charged with violating sanctions on Russia (basically helping Deripaska under the table)
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New 40+ page research report is out where we dive into detailed data on Russian trade imports to determine how Russia is working around Western sanctions and export controls
Key findings: 🧵
silverado.org/news/report-ru
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