DonateNewsflash: Must-read-news for April 17, 2025
Infrequent and incomplete, but here are my most recent recommended reads for today:
Oh, oh! The free world has fallen into its own freedom. That’s the story, Wesley Winkler tells us. When you are a free society and hanging liberty over all, this freedom is also used by hostile actors which are flooding the zone with narratives entitled to weakening your trust into your own freedom. And when you try to control it, you are developing yourself exactly in that direction the hostile dictators want you. Source: Small Wars Journal
The U.S. Command in the Pacific warns for a ‘Tit for tat’ between Russia, China and North Korea. While the latter are supporting Russia in its war against Ukraine, it is again Russia which is helping in reverse with technology that is valuable in the Pacific region. Source: Guardian
What’s the best way to control the enemy’s weapon systems, food supply chain, what else? When you control the operator of these things. How it works in the food sector is shown here. Uncertainty, hesitancy due to a confused actor in the food supply chain causes real-life interruption. Source: FoodSafety
AI and defense – a often told story these days. But what does it mean in concecquence today for NATO. It is developed throughout the security environment, may it be the information domain or the frontier in the field. A good overview here: Meer
Elon Musk and Donald J. Krasnov – as the half Silicon Valley beliefs in it: Dark Enlightenment. So, it’s time to remind us what this neo-fascist theory is. Please find a summarizing description here: ECPS
Small wars journal recommends a book that is dealing with Sun Tzu’s “Winning without fighting”. It is a recommendation to the U.S. to focus more on diplomatic and influence politics and narratives instead of kinetic power. That book (as I am yet not having read it) seems being helpful for the strategic thinkers in the U.S. A brief reminder that the Western narrative has once won the Cold War. So, maybe give it a second try? Source: Small Wars Journal
“We have a beautiful Ocean separating us.” That we have been told by Krasnov and it is indeed a fundamental believe in the USA. Conflicts in the world – unreachable far away from God’s own country. But here are 20 facts that America should have in mind why conflicts and wars are very near to USA. Source: 24/7 Wall Street
The Global Engagement Center, a State Department unit that called out Russian and Chinese propaganda campaigns and became a MAGA boogeyman, has been shut down. Source: WIRED
Europe has published a new “European Internal Security Strategy” at April, 1st. Jean Mafart from the Fondation Robert Schuman has now analyzed it and is offering his insights here: Fondation Robert Schuman
The Kiev Rus is a historic backlink that is used by Russian propagandists to derive Putins demands on Ukraine today. Historic narratives are also used by Russia in other terms and regions, like in the Republic of Moldova. Source: IPN
