WORLD ROUNDUPBooming Global Spyware Industry | Ukraine Facing a Complete Blackout | Only Offensive Realism Can Contain China, and more
··How the Global Spyware Industry Spiraled Out of Control
Spying is a booming business
··Ukraine Is on the Edge of a Complete Blackout
Ukraine’s power supply is currently being held together with Band-Aid
··German Plotters, Long Dismissed as Fringe, Got a Lift From QAnon
Since the onset of the pandemic, German extremists have become the main conduit for violent and antisemitic conspiracy theories, notably QAnon
··Argentina Court Sentences VP Kirchner to Six Years in Prison
Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner accused of fraudulently awarding public contracts
··NATO Prepares for Cyber War
NATO’s cyber forces have been watching the war in Ukraine closely
··Is Xi Jinping Ready to Seize Taiwan?
China has coveted its island neighbor for decades. Is Xi Jinping ready to seize it?
·· Disentangling the Digital Battlefield: How the Internet Has Changed War
Talking about the “first TikTok war” tells us only so much about the real impact of digital technology on the current conflict
··Only Offensive Realism Can Contain China
Rising powers almost always have revisionist intentions
How the Global Spyware Industry Spiraled Out of Control (Mark Mazzetti, Ronen Bergman and Matina Stevis-Gridneff, New York Times)
The market for commercial spyware — which allows governments to invade phones and vacuum up data — is booming. Even the U.S. government is using it.
Ukraine Is on the Edge of a Complete Blackout (Norma Costello, Foreign Policy)
As winter deepens, half of the country’s energy system is already destroyed—and the other half is under threat.
German Plotters, Long Dismissed as Fringe, Got a Lift From QAnon (Katrin Bennhold and Erika Solomon, New York Times)
Reichsbürger, the movement behind a plan to overthrow Germany’s government, gained momentum from conspiracy theories that grew during the pandemic, turning it into a potent new threat.
U.S. Rivals Are Facing Unrest. Is It Due to Luck or Skill? (Douglas London, Foreign Policy)
Mass protests create a favorable environment for intelligence agencies—but the CIA should tread carefully in China, Iran, and Russia.
