”$300 billion is a reasonable down payment on the reparations that Russia should pay to Ukraine. Russian money should rightly compensate Ukrainians for the harm that Russia has done, and help rebuild the Ukrainian infrastructure that Russia destroyed”
The Atlantic
Give Russia’s Frozen Assets to Ukraine Now
Putin should pay for the damage his invasion has caused, and the money is needed immediately.
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The level of appeasement where the question is not the other way around. ”Is it just up to Western citizens and treasuries to pay for the war, or should the Kremlin also be on the hook?”
Client Challenge
Your delivery is delayed for 🤷‍♂️ ”About 17,000 ships and 10% of global trade pass through it every year. Any ship passing through Suez to or from the Indian Ocean has to come this way.”
Shipping firms pause Red Sea journeys over attacks
Maersk temporarily stops its ship using the route - and a German company follows suit.
”The hack was not specific to Ledger customers and that users of various hardware and software wallets from other providers were also impacted. “It is affecting anyone with a wallet that is connecting to a dapp that includes this piece of code,”
Bloomberg.com
Hacker Hits One of Crypto Industry’s Biggest Names in Security
The latest crypto hack involved one of the industry’s top names in security: hardware wallet-maker Ledger. The Paris-based startup saw its Ledger...
”Woo told Creyelman he had been tasked with “attacking Adrian Zenz”, a researcher who helped reveal how China detained hundreds of thousands of the mainly Muslim Uyghur minority in its far-western region of Xinjiang.”
Client Challenge
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”The Kremlin has laundered $2.5 billion of African gold since [Feb ’22]..Russia-backed mercenaries, including the Wagner Company, support authoritarian regimes and destabilization in Africa as part of resource extraction schemes…” https://kyivindependent.com/report-russia-has-laundered-2-5-billion-of-african-gold-since-february-2022/
”The intrusions are part of a broader effort to develop ways to sow panic and chaos or snarl logistics in the event of a U.S.-China conflict in the Pacific” https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2023/12/11/china-hacking-hawaii-pacific-taiwan-conflict/
”Putin viewing the war in Ukraine as a political success, and may even encourage him to attack a Nato member state...This is why every reservist in Finland should…promise themselves that by the beginning of 2025 they will be physically and mentally fit”
News
Foreign policy specialist: Trump presidency could change Russia's attitude towards Finland
FIIA senior researcher Charly Salonius-Pasternak says he does not consider it likely that Finland will face a military threat, but it is possible.