This undermines U.S. national security. I taught in SOSH & was always proud of USMA's willingness to stand up to political pressure. The institution protected our independence and thereby the quality of the education we provided cadets. Politicizing education and our military is garbage.

Under Trump, NSC has stopped holding regular meetings with European officials on Russian sabotage, sources say
www.reuters.com/world/us-sus...

Germany's upper house has voted on an historic change to the country's debt borrowing rules, paving the way for billions of euros in defense and infrastructure spending.
www.dw.com/en/germany-u...

“Veteran Services Organizations and veterans should be leading the charge to defend our constitutional system,” writes @itsapurdy.bsky.social

“This is not about partisanship. This is about protecting the pillars of our democracy itself.”

www.justsecurity.org/108896/veter...

President Trump's administration has fired more than 20,000 federal workers. How does the federal workforce compare with those of other countries?

This inexplicable policy shift will have far reaching effects on U.S. interests at home and abroad. Disrupting Russian cyber-based hybrid threat actions just became far more difficult for U.S. partners and allies.

www.nytimes.com/2025/03/02/u...

Jack Watling and I take a look at what the requirements might look like for a European force in Ukraine. We find that this not an insurmountable task, but will require proper resourcing and difficult political choices. @warontherocks.bsky.social warontherocks.com/2025/03/will...

As the war enters its fourth year, President Zelensky’s gravest concern is not on the battlefield, but in Washington.

In today's Soufan Center #IntelBrief, I wrote about the trajectory of the war in #Ukraine three years on.
thesoufancenter.org/intelbrief-2...

That's what I'd call a Zeitenwende

“We need to have discussions with both the British and the French — the two European nuclear powers — about whether nuclear sharing, or at least nuclear security from the U.K. and France, could also apply to us” - Friedrich Merz
www.politico.eu/article/euro...

Dozens of inauthentic X accounts are posting coordinated, AI-generated content critical of CDU leader Friedrich Merz ahead of the German election, but failing to get any traction.

Notably, they all misspell his name "Mertz", and seem to be very keen for Germany to restore energy ties with Russia.

Events over the past week have signaled the potential for tectonic shifts in the transatlantic relationship. My Soufan Center colleague Nikkie Lyubarsky and I examined these changing dynamics in today's #IntelBrief.
thesoufancenter.org/intelbrief-2...

German investigators allege Russia hired petty criminals to pose as climate activists and vandalize hundreds of cars across Germany in an effort to spark a backlash and turn voters against the Green Party ahead of the upcoming federal election

Meet Edward "Big Balls" Coristine, a teenage DOGE engineer, who has access to sensitive federal data

• Runs Tesla.Sexy, a company operating a Russian website

• Worked at startup that hired convicted hackers

• Someone using his Telegram handle solicited a cyberattack

www.wired.com/story/edward...

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