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Nov 3 • 4 tweets • 2 min read
Summary: “Americans use Iranian disinformation about election 2020 to create American disinformation about election 2022” this is foreign disinfo being re-used by Americans - #NotLegit
This is a fake video the US Treasury said Iran "made in an attempt to undermine faith in the election by implying that individuals could cast fraudulent ballots."
Video created by Iranian state-sponsored actors executing a digital influence operation to intimidate and influence American voters. home.treasury.gov/news/press-rel…
This video has more than 1 million views and actually helps Iran, yes Iran, sow doubt in US electoral process. Can’t make this up. Interested to see how @Twitter handles this one with @elonmusk at the helm. #ProtectDemocracy

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Nov 1
week until Election Day 2022, regarding foreign influence & interference, my general assessment is same as 2020 “what could a foreign country do to America that America is not already doing to itself.” However, a few things we’ve seen, few to look for nytimes.com/2022/10/31/tec…
2 parts to foreign election meddling; 1) influence of the outcome 2) interference in the conduct. On #1 - foreign has been light & weak. Seen no signs that of the outcome of any contest being tipped by those outside the U.S., but one interesting highlight...
China finally jumped into social media influence ops in U.S. election. An escalation for them, past elections had been CCP had been overt or sloppy or both. This time they tried to play like the Russians, except, lucky for the U.S., China sucks at it.
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Oct 23
There it is. Kremlin using same strategy as February, telling on themselves. Watch the dam on Dnipro river, chemical weapons use, nuclear plants.
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Russian troop in/around Kherson are in retreat. Kremlin taking heavy losses, realize they will not take Ukraine they are resorting to targeting energy infrastructure inside Ukraine. Also expanding cyber/sabotage on Europe. Escalating to deescalate, settle for ground before defeat
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Oct 17
Excellent interview with Fiona Hill, beyond the clickbait ⁦@politico⁩ headline Hill’s analysis is excellent: ‘Elon Musk Is Transmitting a Message for Putin’ - POLITICO apple.news/A10zguy8gR9SjI…
She also notes the impact of Russian active measures delivered to America over the last 8 years. From Putin perspective, last term, try to get POTUS Trump to give up Ukraine, this term, try to demobilize POTUS Biden via internal political infighting.
Wish, as a listener of @theallinpod, they’d focus their Ukraine discussion from someone like Hill then jumping into nuclear hyperbole informed by random substacks & zero hedge.
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Aug 21
Significant assassination inside Russia, seems Dugin was meant to be target, but this article leaves out significant data, more than 1 scenario for who killed Dugin “Daughter of prominent Putin supporter killed in Moscow car bomb attack | Financial Times” ft.com/content/a1ce13…
Story insinuates scenario 1 - Ukraine connects pulled off sophisticated bombing deep inside Russia to eliminate a purveyor of Kremlin disinformation motivating Russians to support invasion of Ukraine. Maybe true, but fails logic test on several fronts. For example…
This assumes Ukraine has ability to set up detonate complex device in Moscow area and wants to send a message by striking deep in heart of Russia. If they had such ability and wanted to send a message, why Dugin as target?
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Aug 9
worried about mobilization to violence in reaction to today’s search at Mar-a-Lago. I’d also note that during events of heightened political tension, foreign adversaries like to make provocations. Many examples Russia/Iran/China during Jan6, election, Covid-19
Here are some examples of what I mean above. China during COVID panic using text messages nytimes.com/2020/04/22/us/…
Iran posed as the Proud Boys members to sow chaos headed into election 2020 bloomberg.com/news/articles/…
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"A loud blast was heard in the Afghan capital at 6:18 a.m. on Sunday. A spokesperson for the Taliban wrote in a tweet that an airstrike hit “a residential house” in the capital city and claimed it was “carried out by American drones.” washingtonpost.com/national-secur…
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How was Zawahiri tracked down now, but not identified over last 20 years? Were they long held sources, traditional CT intelligence collection, or something different, like a tip from the Taliban or maybe even a competitor like ISIS-K? Lots of competing motivations
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