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  The Attack That Doesn’t Trigger Article 5 (w/ Fergus Hay)

  The Attack That Doesn’t Trigger Article 5 (w/ Ferg | RSS.com A cyber attack on Jaguar Land Rover last year cost the British economy £2 billion. Had a Russian drone bombed a British oil refinery at a fraction of that damage, NATO would have invoked Article 5. But because a cyber attack isn’t kinetic, it

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  The Case for the Saudi Nuclear Agreement

  The Case for the Saudi Nuclear Agreement | RSS.com In late August, President Trump sent the US-Saudi 123 agreement for civil nuclear cooperation to Congress, beginning a 90-day legislative countdown after which the deal enters into force. The deal — signed by US Energy Secretary Chris Wright in July — establishes a framework for American

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  Europe’s Defense Reality Check (w/ Joshua Huminski)

  Europe’s Defense Reality Check (w/ Joshua Huminski | RSS.com Over four years into Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine, Western intelligence agencies have begun issuing public warnings about the threat of a Russian escalation against NATO before the end of the decade. With Washington seeking to reduce its conventional forces on the continent and weapon delivery

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  The Neutrality Trap (w/ Isaac Stone Fish)

  Three Questions The era of corporate activism is fading. On most issues, this shift toward political neutrality is welcome, but not when the issue is China. Virtually every major global firm now carries dependencies on both Washington and Beijing, and in a genuine crisis, both governments will move to leverage those dependencies to their own

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  The Cost of Second Place in the AI Race (w/ Jamil Jaffer)

  Three Questions For years, American labs held an uncontested lead in artificial intelligence. That is no longer obviously true: Chinese open-weight models have closed much of the gap, and by some measures have pulled ahead. The stakes are not merely commercial. Whoever leads sets the terms for what the world runs on, who gets access

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