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Jun 25 • 7 tweets • 4 min read
Story that needs to get more attention: it appears that the major of Berlin has been deceived by a #deepfake video call. She thought she was talking to Kyiv major Vitali Klitschko. tagesspiegel.de/berlin/berlins…
A similar story that happened last year - deep fakes used to deceive European MPs.
Story in English by @dwnews. These are exactly the scenarios people working on #AI-enabled disinformation have been warning about.

dw.com/en/vitali-klit…
Oh wow, BILD now reports that the Vienna major also talked to the fake Vitali - without realising it at all.
#deepfake
When you compare the pictures that were published of the calls, the “Klitschkos” do indeed appear the same. (Left, Vienna major Michael Ludwig, right Berlin major Franziska Giffey) ImageImage
Three days ago, the Austrian press reported the call “Ludwig supports Klitschko in Ukraine war”…
heute.at/s/ludwig-staer…
Correction to the MEP story: @jjvincent has pointed out, and reported that these weren’t deep fakes theverge.com/2021/4/30/2240…

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Jun 23
“We need to move from deterrence by punishment to deterrence by denial. In other words, we me must be ready to prevent Russia taking a single inch of Nato territory, rather than simply trying to reconquer occupied enclaves.” on.ft.com/39SRzo5
The commander of the Estonian defence forces calls for a fundamental change in #NATO’s approach

Nato must show Putin it is serious about defence on.ft.com/39SRzo5
“when deploying forces to Nato countries, we should not measure how much deterrence those aircraft, ships or tanks are providing. Instead, we must assess how ready the forces are to fight in case of need”
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Jun 12
Last year, I wrote this essay about the German, and the German millennial, mindset.

Since the war in Ukraine, and the “#Zeitenwende”, I’ve been thinking on what I got wrong, and what right.
Short 🧵

warontherocks.com/2021/05/a-mill…
Overall, I find my theory vindicated. The unwillingness/ inability to see that the world has really changed (despite saying otherwise), the hope that somehow the world will go “back to normal” (despite saying otherwise).
What is interesting to me though, is that this seems to be *even more* the case for the older generations. Those who actively unlearned geopolitics.
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Jun 12
Yes and yes
“if it is true that peace in Europe is essentially due to nuclear weapons and the Americans, then that would mean that the whole cozy pacifist lifestyle was only possible because hawks were watching over it all the time.” spiegel.de/politik/deutsc…
I made the same point here warontherocks.com/2021/05/a-mill…
(Or for the Germans degruyter.com/document/doi/1… )
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Jun 10
What an incredibly odd and weak episode of “Streitkräfte und Strategien” on autonomous weapons. Germany has internationally renowned experts on this topic - @drfranksauer @adahlma to just name two - and @cschmiester presents this topic as if no one had ever heard of it.
I know not everyone follows this topic closely but over the last years it has been discussed in quite some detail in the German media. So going “oh wow, this Stuart Russell in this FT article warns of these systems” is just… weak sauce.
Just a few examples of recent media reports on this:
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Jun 8
“I spent many years trying to convince my coalition partner that we needed armed drones. I didn’t succeed.” - #Merkel last night in her big interview
“And it was also not because of me that we didn’t do/get other things. It was hard work to invest in military deterrence”. - Merkel
I’m a bit torn on this. On the one hand, I agree with her SPD criticism in this area.
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Jun 8
Spending the morning rewatching last night’s first post-chancellery interview with Angela Merkel.
If you don’t have time to watch the whole interview, by far the most interesting bit is 1:02:30 to 1:11:00 (roughly). On the Bundeswehr and Germany’s defence policy.

Before that point in the interview, I was really annoyed because re Putin/Russia she kept repeating that she “didn’t reproach herself for trying diplomacy”, that she didn’t feel “like she tried diplomacy too little”* - as if talks were *the only thing*.

*paraphrased by me
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