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4 March: "Russia is conducting disinformation campaigns around the Zaporizhzhia NPP to hide its crimes or shift responsibility for them onto Ukraine, and is trying to ‘normalize’ the takeover of the plant." mezha.net/eng/bukvy/ru... Ukraine nuclear energy #natsec IAEA UN #humanrights security #law

Russia Wages Disinformation Ca...

"Four Years of Nuclear Piracy: Zaporizhzhia and the Weaponisation of Civilian Nuclear Infrastructure" www.astrid-online.it/static/uploa... Ukraine energy #natsec Russia

"Howard Solomon, the interim chargé d’affaires at the US Mission to Intl Organizations in Vienna, called for all strikes against Ukraine’s energy infrastructure to cease. He said the current situation is “unacceptable & extremely dangerous.”" www.armscontrol.org/act/2026-03/... IAEA nuclear #natsec

IAEA Board Discusses Nuclear S...

DR;DLdrdl
2026-03-11

8/20: Core Element 2: Business Raid Tactics. Classic corporate raiding: identify leverage points, open bid far outside normal range, create artificial time pressure, extract before the target organizes a defense. Sound familiar? Tariff announcements. Alliance ultimatums. The sixty-day Iran deadline. Shock and extract.

DR;DLdrdl
2026-03-11

5/20: Security Logic vs. Ownership Logic. Security logic: accumulate power to guarantee survival. There's an endpoint—stability, deterrence, a signed treaty. Ownership logic: accumulate to extract. No endpoint. Like capital itself, structurally expansionary. You stop when there's nothing left to acquire.

Chris Womackhollowoak
2026-03-10

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DR;DLdrdl
2026-03-10

BONUS/20: The U.S. is bombing Iran while simultaneously negotiating with Iran.

Analysts are calling it incoherent. It isn't.

Posts 1–4 of this thread explain it: this isn't security logic. You don't bomb someone you're negotiating with in good faith—unless the bomb IS the negotiation. Unless force is just the bid price when the target won't sell.

Iran won't be acquired. So the raider is restructuring by fire.

New map. Same logic.

DR;DLdrdl
2026-03-10

3/20: Introducing: Extractive Hegemonism. Not isolationism. Not retrenchment. Something more aggressive—an attempt to monetize American structural power rather than spend it maintaining an international order.

DR;DLdrdl
2026-03-10

2/20: We keep asking: what's the security interest here? That's the wrong question. This administration isn't operating on security logic. It's operating on ownership logic. Different premise. Different playbook. Completely different endgame.

DR;DLdrdl
2026-03-10

1/20: Every analyst I know is walking around with the same quiet frustration. The old frameworks—realism, liberalism, constructivism—don't explain what we're watching. The map is wrong. Time to draw a new one.

DR;DLdrdl
2026-03-10

INTRO/20: The frameworks we use to understand American foreign policy were built for a different game. Realism. Liberalism. Constructivism. None of them explain what we're watching.

This thread introduces a new theory—Extractive Hegemonism. Not the security interest. The ownership claim. Twenty posts. Core theory, two live case studies, hard implications. I'll be rolling this out in four parts over the next several days.

Strap in.

Congress: "bipartisan plan puts the burden on the government and providers to prevent the kind of breach that reverberates across the entire industry, jeopardizing patient access to needed treatments and costing hospitals billions." www.axios.com/2026/03/09/c... Healthcare #cybersec #natsec #law

Here's how Congress plans to f...

"US military wants to use its state-of-the-art AI tools to supercharge surveillance against Americans, making it easier than ever to monitor our movements, our search history, and our private associations." www.theguardian.com/commentisfre... Anthropic MIC Mil #natsec #cybersec privacy #humanrights

Congress must prevent AI surve...

DR;DLdrdl
2026-03-08

The map is wrong. I'm drawing a new one.

Starting tomorrow I’ll begin a preview (pre-pub!) of a new international relations theory: Extractive Hegemonism.

drdl.org

Image with rich cyberpunk/dystopian aesthetics that embody the themes of Extractive Hegemonism — the idea of dominant powers systematically extracting value from subordinate populations.

DNI's "Gabbard has come under fire over an explosive whistleblower complaint & allegations that she is protecting the Trump family — & that she even planted a mole to obstruct the investigation" 👁️ www.rawstory.com/trump-family... #natsec security policy #law @durbin.senate.gov@bsky.brid.gy @raskin.house.gov@bsky.brid.gy

Tulsi Gabbard accused of plant...

"We don’t know why Gabbard continues to aggressively obstruct this #whistleblower complaint. It sounds like she’s more concerned with protecting Jared Kushner, & perhaps Trump himself, than the public she’s supposed to serve" www.salon.com/2026/03/05/t... ODNI DNI #natsec cyber security policy #law

Tulsi Gabbard's conflict of in...

"This article examines the evolving cyber threat landscape that could arise from the current regional conflict and the potential implications for organisations operating within the Gulf." www.lexology.com/library/deta... AI cyber war security threat Middle East Iran israel #natsec

Heightened Cyber Risks in the ...

Kevin Karhan :verified:kkarhan@infosec.space
2026-03-06

Interessanterweise hat @bnd auf deren "Kontaktseite" keinen Pubkey oder eMail-Adresse gelistet.

#plzfix #InfoSec #OpSec #ComSec #ITsec #BND

The core problem is far worse than incompetence or wilfull neglect due to who the boss is... US National Security policies, systems, & protocols purposely compromised to create extreme vulnerability 👁️ IMHO: It's a #NatSec Take Down. Be vigilant on all cyber systems, utilities, infrastructure...🤷

RE: https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:hyznmfkp6yq43626qcfwivoj/post/3mgbbqkfwwc2k

"At roughly 3:45 p.m. Eastern, well before the strikes were publicly announced, [attorney Mark] Geragos told Harvey Levin that he was overhearing a conversation at the next table about the US bombing Iran that very night. substack.davidpakman.com/p/trump-admi... Gross #NatSec Breach Reveal 🤦👁️ #law

Trump admin leaked war plans i...

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