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@alexzfinley
Jan 14, 2022 • 4 tweets • 2 min read • Read on X
For anyone who has followed my tours of Barcelona’s port, here’s an interesting article about the city trying to attract even more billionaires and their yachts. nytimes.com/2022/01/10/bus…
Super fun when we combine this with @navalny's calls to stop allowing Russia's billionaires to use the West as their playground. We're shooting ourselves in the foot.
theguardian.com/world/2020/nov…
I took this panorama shot of the Bcn port today. Off the top of my head, I spot four Russian superyachts. 1. Solaris (Abramovich) 2. Galactica Super Nova (Vagit Alekperov) 3. Aurora (Andrey Molchanov) 4. Sea Rhapsody (Andrey Kostin) Image
Usmanov's superyacht Dilbar and its fish disco is currently not in port. Sorry, fish. You'll have to party elsewhere. Image

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Nov 7
There are so many problems to dig through in this story. First off, yes, Grenell and Ka$h would be horrific as CIA director. But I won't even go into that. The article is so weird to read bc it assumes norms and rules will be followed. 1/
For example, it talks about Musk as some kind of Rasputin, an informal adviser so he would be exempt from ethics rules designed to avoid conflicts of interest. But we know from last time around, these ethics rules don't exist for Trump. 2/ Image
There will be no effort to avoid conflicts of interest.
Then there is this: Some concern RFK jr might not be able to get a security clearance. 3/ Image
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Oct 29
Two articles today in @politico caught my attention. One says Harris's focus on Trump's fascism is falling flat with undecideds who want to hear about economic issues that affect them. 1/politico.com/news/2024/10/2…
The other is an interview with Fiona Hill about how Trump will be a fascist and usher in an oligarchy. 2/
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As Hill makes clear, fascism and the oligarchy it sustains and economy are very much linked. In an oligarchy, the leader *must* keep a small group around him happy. His own power depends on it. So the leader and all the oligarchs help each other to maintain power and status. 3/
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Oct 25
A few years ago, I visited Prague and was shown around by a local tour guide. She had grown up in communist Czechoslovakia and clearly had had difficult experiences under the regime. The family had taken enormous risks and escaped. 1/
Years later, in 2013, she showed me around, sharing local history. And even though Czechia had been free for 24 years at that point, she still lowered her voice to a whisper anytime she mentioned communists or revealed sensitive stories. 2/
It was strange for me to see that, but for her it was a natural reaction, made that way having grown up under an authoritarian regime where one never knew if an out of turn phrase might land you in prison. 3/
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Sep 6
Ok, starting a thread as I read through the DOJ's Doppelgänger affidavit, outlining how Russia used spoofed versions of legit news sites and created "original brands" to spread Russian narratives and hide the Russian gov's hand.
Here are some thoughts from yesterday, as I read through the RT indictment showing how RT was funding Tenet media and controlling much of their content Here's some thoughts from the RT indictment
For background on Doppelgänger, see this post from my Foreign Influence Operations course about how to verify news sites alexzfinley.substack.com/p/class-17-ver…
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Apr 22
Petr Bystrom, a member of Germany's AfD party, allegedly caught on tape by Czech intel as he received money from the guy running the Voice of Europe Russian influence operation. 1/
spiegel.de/politik/deutsc…
Bystrom can apparently be heard on the recording counting money and then asking that several staffers at the European Parliament receive payments too. Czech intel believes the op gave around 500,000 euros to pro-Kremlin politicians/staff in the EU. 2/
According to der Spiegel: The authorities in Belgium are now also interested in the case. The intelligence services have "confirmed the existence of pro-Russian interference networks with activities in several European countries and also here in Belgium," said the Belgian PM. 3/
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Dec 11, 2023
Putin's trip to UAE last week was part of this. Dubai is a massive washing machine for Russian cash. Putin had to check in on that; he needs that cash to keep paying his proxies in Europe and the US (influencers, activists, politicians, journalists, etc.). 1/
Look at this, in Dubai, 67 villas sold in two minutes. And no name is necessary. It's all anonymous. That sound you hear? It's a washing machine! 2/ lefigaro.fr/conso/la-semai…
Why does Putin need this cash? He is running a massive network of influencers in the West, to ensure his ideas take root and prevail. I've written extensively about this, so I'll just highlight a few operations here. See this thread for some basics: 3/
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