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  • Romania’s Militant Democracy Movement: Defending the System, or Undermining It?

    Romania’s Militant Democracy Movement: Defending the System, or Undermining It?

    In March 2025, Romania’s Constitutional Court upheld a controversial decision to bar far-right candidate Călin Georgescu from running in a rerun of the presidential election. This ruling followed Romania’s top electoral body invalidating the results of the December 2024 election. They cited alleged Russian interference and violations of electoral law that had favored Georgescu. Supporters

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  • Pipeline Wars: Why Energy Infrastructure Is the Next Battlefield

    Pipeline Wars: Why Energy Infrastructure Is the Next Battlefield

    Energy infrastructure has become one of the most contested arenas in modern geopolitical conflict. Pipelines, refineries, LNG terminals, and undersea cable networks are not just economic lifelines—they are strategic targets. As global tensions rise, these systems are increasingly vulnerable to sabotage, cyberattacks, insurgent operations, and hybrid warfare. From the Nord Stream pipeline explosions in the

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  • German Warships Targeted: Investigating the Recent Naval Sabotage Incidents

    In recent months, the German Navy has faced a series of alarming sabotage attempts on its vessels. These incidents have raised significant concerns about maritime security in the region. Sabotage has targeted ships under construction and those already in active service, revealing major gaps in naval protection measures. Investigations suggest both state and non-state actors

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  • Recent Acts of Sabotage in Russia and Eurasia

    Recent Acts of Sabotage in Russia and Eurasia

    Sabotage has become one of the defining features of the Russia-Ukraine war — and increasingly, of Russia’s broader confrontation with Europe. What began as targeted Ukrainian strikes on Russian logistics has evolved into a bi-directional sabotage campaign spanning from the Russian Far East to the railways of Poland. Attacks on infrastructure, military targets, and logistics

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  • Protecting Critical Infrastructure from Sabotage

    Protecting Critical Infrastructure from Sabotage

    As the boundaries between peace and conflict blur in the era of grey-zone and hybrid competition, protecting critical infrastructure has become one of the defining security challenges of the 21st century. Systems such as power grids, transportation networks, communication channels, water supplies, and energy pipelines form the backbone of modern society. They support economic stability,

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  • Undersea Sabotage: The Hidden Threat to Global Infrastructure

    Undersea Sabotage: The Hidden Threat to Global Infrastructure

    The ocean floor carries the connective tissue of modern civilization. Roughly 97 percent of all intercontinental data travels through undersea fiber-optic cables — not satellites — while subsea pipelines and power interconnectors supply energy across national borders. These systems support an estimated $10 trillion in daily financial transactions. They are also extraordinarily vulnerable. Since Russia’s

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  • Sabotage on the Rise

    Sabotage on the Rise

    Global acts of sabotage are on the rise

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