"Do not give one inch in negotiations, because there will always be people in the West who will offer you something. And in the end, you will have one third or even one half of something you didn't have before." - Kaja Kallas on russian tactics of negotiation:

FE og PET er blevet brikker i et politisk spil, der kompromitterer tjenesternes arbejde og forringer Danmarks sikkerhed. Når efterretningstjenesternes uafhængighed og saglighed bliver kontamineret af politiske hensyn, bør det få advarselslamperne til at blinke. Min analyse i OLFI om udviklingen:

Rusland tester nye atomvåben og sætter sin atomslagstyrke i forhøjet beredskab, mens Kremls advarsler om atomkrig tager til. Samtidig har Putin ændret landets atomdoktrin og sænket tærsklen for anvendelse af kernevåben. Men er risikoen for den atomare apokalypse reelt stigende? Læs med her.

When Bashar al-Assad’s regime collapsed in Syria, many of the officials who enabled and enforced his brutal regime disappeared. Our reporting uncovers who they are, what they did and where they fled. nyti.ms/3J1W5Cs

One good thing about Russia's Matryoshka disinformation campaign emailing us their fake news posts everyday of the week is you can get a sense of what really worries Russia. The last few days have been dominated by videos about how unpopular Macron is for wanting to send Tomahawk missiles to Ukraine

Efter års kritik skal det fremover være hemmeligt, om Forsvaret har løst de massive problemer med at rekruttere og uddanne piloter. Både Rigsrevisionen og de ansatte har advaret om pilotmangel, og med ambitioner om nye kampfly, overvågningsfly og lufttankningsfly bliver behovet ikke mindre akut.

Kontrakten på tre store varslingsradarer, der skal dække luftrummet fra Bornholm til Nordatlanten, skulle have ligget klar i juni 2025. Men fire måneder senere er der stadig ikke indgået en aftale. Og Forsvarsministeriet kan ikke længere oplyse, hvornår man forventer at underskrive kontrakt.

Aktindsigt i status på F-35. Læs med på OLFI i næste uge.

EU-Domstolen fastslår, at Danmark har forsømt sine forpligtigelser ift. at implementere direktivet om ophavsret og det digitale indre marked. Danmark skal både betale bøder for hver dag direktivet ikke efterkommes og sagens omkostninger. Hør mere her 👉https://www.instagram.com/p/DJKDm63o-Nd/

TODAY the NYT publishes an investigation into the Trump memecoin $TRUMP and how it has turned into a extraordinary venue for foreign influence campaigns. What we are seeing is potentially corrupt attempts to change US policy by paying the Trump family money. This is no "Russian Hoax" nyti.ms/4kkv7D7

Our latest investigation, with @tjekdet.dk , @politiken.dk and the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation (CBC) reveals the real identity of the man behind Mr Deepfake, the notorious site where non-consensual deepfake pornography is published www.bellingcat.com/news/2025/05...

USA intensiverer indhentning mod Grønland som et led i Trumps bestræbelser på at overtage landet, siger to kilder til WSJ. Efterretningstjenester skal blandt andet identificere nyttige nøglepersoner i Grønland og Danmark.

Et eksempel på de dobbelte standarder, der gælder i forhold til de politiske partier. I rigtig mange andre sammenhænge er man ikke lige så generøs med overgangsregler. Men nu handler dette også om noget så uvæsentligt som åbenhed overfor vælgerne: journalisten.dk/kommunalvalg...

an excellent meditation - with abundant evidence - on the parallels (and not) between Orban's Hungary and Trump's America: www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...

Peak Canada

I've just come back from the Cambridge Disinformation Summit where I gave the opening keynote, titled "Demanufacturing Consent - How Disordered Discourse is Destroying Democracy", featuring everything from Fake Hooves to Jackson Hinkle being the worst. www.youtube.com/watch?v=D-FV...

Novo Nordisk støtter abortmodstandere og klimaskeptikere i den amerikanske højrefløjsorganisation RAGA. Stærk historie fra @joach17.bsky.social.

“Russia is automating the spread of false information to fool artificial intelligence chatbots on key topics, offering a playbook to other bad actors on how to game AI to push content meant to inflame, influence and obfuscate instead of inform.” www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2...

Private sector intelligence capabilities rarely stay confined to the private sector! #intelligence #geoint www.ft.com/content/628b...

Russia has offered the United States to fight "Eurofascism" together. The Foreign Intelligence Service (SVR) published an article about European "fascism." It is about fascism in Britain and France, which Washington and Moscow allegedly opposed together in the international arena.

Fin gennemgang af Østre Landsrets afgørelse om retlig interesse i våbeneksportsagen. Kort: Domstolen har anlagt en traditionel (og dermed tilbageholdende) tilgang til, hvem der har tilstrækkelig retlig interesse til at køre en sag. Den sagde dog intet om materien. www.information.dk/indland/2025...

Lars Aagaard har hemmeligholdt Energinets forsinkelser i 197 dage, viser nye oplysninger. Også regeringen har været orienteret www.zetland.dk/historie/sDo...

Forskere frygter konsekvenser ved at kritisere fonde. Lidt på bagkant; artiklen landede i sidste uge. Men læs min kollega Anna Fenger Scheftes artikel, hvori forskere fra forskellige grene sætter ord på deres frygt for at træde private fonde over tæerne. fundats.dk/fagomraader/...

What did 14 years of autocratic populism produce in Hungary? Poverty and corruption www.theatlantic.com/magazine/arc...

For the sailors planning and carrying out strikes on Houthis, it's River City time: outgoing unsecure comms are cut. For Cabinet members, not so much www.nytimes.com/2025/03/27/u...

Hvis Nordea-fonden tager egne udmeldinger om klimabevidsthed alvorligt, må fonden if. eksperter forholde sig til, at banken finansierer klimaskadelige selskaber. Ved bankens generalforsamling i sidste uge stemte Nordea-fonden imod et forslag om at droppe finansieringen af flere fossile udvindinger.

Three of the ships supposedly carrying fraudelent Ro Marine papers are currently on their way through or already in Danish and Finnish waters. Interesting how authorities will react.

"Det er bekymrende, hvis vi ser en udvikling i retning af aftaler med private aktører forud for politiske forhandlinger – i nogle forløb, der foregår helt uden for offentlig indsigt." Det siger @sigurdagersnap.bsky.social, efter at nylige sager har belyst de store fondes politiske indflydelse.

"The dream is becoming reality. At least for the media talking heads who take their orders at weekly meetings in the Kremlin. The US is aligning with Russia’s outlook, they say. Now, Russia can begin to imagine a just punishment for its old enemies in Europe’s democracies." - Julia Davis:

I @weekendavisen.dk har jeg skrevet om de "russiske smil i Riyadh": Det er uklart, om russerne og amerikanerne er blevet enige om noget nyt. Men en førende Trump-diplomats seneste udtalelser har øget bekymringen i Europa og Ukraine. www.weekendavisen.dk/2025-13/udla...

The NATIONAL SECURITY ADVISER added the EDITOR OF THE ATLANTIC to a PRINCIPALS COMMITTEE TEXT CHAIN set up for the DEFENSE SECRETARY about PLANNED MILITARY STRIKES. Here's a thread of involved parties talking about the need for secure communications (when Dems are involved):

Pete Hegseth in 2016: "How damaging is it to your ability to recruit or build allies with others when they are worried that our leaders may be exposing them because of their gross negligence or their recklessness in handling information?"

these are almost identical to the talking points Putin used to gobble up parts of Ukraine in 2014 btw

Russia and China present the most significant cyber threats against Finnish national security. Russia has created a permissive environment for cyber criminals, which makes it possible also to mount deniable cyber operations. More about cyber threats to national security in this interview in Finnish.

The must-read of the week (recognizing it's only Monday): What happens when the president's national security team accidentally includes a journalist on a theoretically highly secret group chat about an upcoming military operation. @jeffreygoldberg.bsky.social www.theatlantic.com/politics/arc...

Vi må konkludere, at danske politikere vægter deres egne stemmetal over dansk digital uafhængighed, så længe de fortsat bruger X og FB som primære kanaler👇

When democracies slide towards authoritarianism, the judiciary will be the last institution to be undermined and captured by the authoritarian system, then it's the people vs. the state - Elon Musk lashes out at US judges as they rule against Doge www.theguardian.com/technology/2...

Digitale spor antyder ifølge canadisk research-enhed, at NSK eller en af Danmarks to efterretningstjenester benytter kontroversiel spyware fra israelske Paragon. Interessant historie fra @radarp.bsky.social

An important moment. "Arms companies from the US, UK and Turkey will be excluded from a new €150bn EU defence funding push unless their home countries sign defence and security pacts with Brussels." www.ft.com/content/eb9e...

In December, I wrote a piece about people's declining ability to process information, to distinguish fact from opinion, etc, and how this might soften us up to become overly-dependent on AI. You could read it, but this guy just summarised it in two tweets!

Arne Astrup, som igennem hele sin karriere har haft tætte bånd til fødevareindustrien og stadig arbejder for slikproducenten Ferrero, er idémanden bag det udskældte forskningsprojekt Nova 2.0, som 90 eksperter kritiserer for at ville skabe tvivl om ultraforarbejdet mad.

“The Trump administration is considering recognizing Ukraine’s Crimea region as Russian territory as part of any future agreement to end Moscow’s war on Kyiv, according to two people familiar with the matter.” www.semafor.com/article/03/1...

To freudianske fortalelser i to lande på et døgn. @ianbremmer.com @oleichristensen.bsky.social

En ret vild præcedens udi aktindsigt ovre i UK. New Scientist har fået aktindsigt i ChatGPT-historikken for landets teknologiminister.

Fra EU-resolutionen: "[The EP] Strongly deplores any attempts at blackmailing Ukraine’s leadership into surrender to the Russian aggressor for the sole purpose of announcing a so-called ‘peace deal’." Link til resolution her:

Mere om fondene og politisk indflydelse: Da forhandlingerne på Christiansborg om iværksætterpakken gik i gang, var en del af pakken allerede klappet af med landets store fonde i forvejen. En hidtil uset involvering af fondene i regeringens politikudvikling, siger eksperter.

DOGE, paragon of efficiency, says it would take three years to respond to @crew.bsky.social's FOIA request for records - even on an expedited basis. This is one of the clearest signs yet DOGE isn't serious about efficiency - or transparency.

“Frightened for the safety of their families.” America, 2025.

Tre medlemmer af bulgarsk spionring overvågede undersøgende journalist i UK på vegne af russiske efterretningstjenester, netop dømt i London.