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Chris Estep writes, "Hegseth could have committed the US government to using every tool it has for strengthening Taiwan’s ability to defend itself—even if doing so would jeopardize his or other Pentagon officials’ potential trips to Beijing later this year. Some principles are worth missing flights for." buff.ly/lApHVOH
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Subscribe to #BehindtheFront for updates on the Defense Industrial Base, military procurement, lessons learned from ongoing conflicts, and challenges and opportunities in the technology and space sectors. buff.ly/OUT5Nly
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"VFEX is a frontier market: an equity market in a developing country that is more advanced than the least developed countries but less developed than mainstream emerging markets." Read more about the Victoria Falls Stock Exchange. buff.ly/eRmpjTi
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Monday, June 22, 6:30 PM: FPRI's Asia Program is hosting an in-person event in New York City to discuss questions surrounding Taiwan’s international space, defense posture, and economic resilience. buff.ly/iJBX8Au
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"Russia’s battlefield approach remains costly and inefficient, expending large amounts of manpower and materiel for limited territorial gains. Its economy has been restructured around wartime production, leading to rising fiscal pressure, inflation, and dependence on continued conflict to sustain growth." Check out the full report by Suzanne Loftus. buff.ly/2adb1qq
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Read about the Russian government exceeding its spending cap, ambassadors from Germany, France, and the UK meeting with the Russian foreign ministry, and a fuel crisis in Crimea in the latest #BearMarketBrief. buff.ly/NtwiZFU
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Subscribe to our YouTube channel to catch up on our past virtual and in-person events. youtube.com/@FPRI
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Check out May's #BalticRoundup for updates on corruption charges across the Baltic States, their participation in Operation Trojan Footprint, and drone incursions causing them to ramp up air surveillance and defense systems. buff.ly/cAgk4ZX
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Subscribe to #BearMarketBrief for weekly updates on Russia's economy, politics, and political risk environment by Sara Ashbaugh and András Tóth-Czifra. buff.ly/Z4ZXfCf
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"We again are falling into the trap of underestimating the tenacity and fighting spirit of our opponent and exaggerating our own military effectiveness." Read "Déjà Vu All Over Again" by Robert Beck in the Brattleboro Reformer. buff.ly/k2BqfIS
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Charles Ray predicts multiple outcomes for a brewing political crisis between Zimbabwean General Constantino Chiwenga and President Emmerson Mnangagwa. buff.ly/2n1FdE9
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Tuesday, June 16, at 11:00 AM: In our upcoming virtual event, Eurasia Program Director Emily Holland will be joined by Fellows Suzanne Loftus and András Tóth-Czifra to discuss structural pressures on the Kremlin in military, economic, and geopolitical arenas. buff.ly/ZGUrrGj
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Macdonald Amoah, Morgan Bazilian, and Jahara Matisek tell us that "the combined demand queue from over a dozen countries, like Saudi Arabia, Germany, and Poland, represents a backlog of over 4,300 Patriot rounds." Revisit their piece on #BehindtheFront. buff.ly/3u6EpbM
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"We need to take both defensive measures—stopping things such as the theft of intellectual property—and a much harder look at China’s efforts to acquire American firms." Check out the full conversation with Nadia Schadlow on #OrbisArchives. buff.ly/GiwQ2tD
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Check out Ofira Seliktar's piece from the #OrbisArchives where she details four overlooked issues that undermined the conception that Hamas would moderate its ideology and become a rational governance player. buff.ly/VOqgaNn
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Revisit the latest conversation on #BehindtheFront for more details on the revolutionary aerospace weapons Ursa Major Technologies is working on. buff.ly/SvhaxBC
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🧵By the Numbers: Highlights from the latest #BearMarketBrief
1) 678.9 billion rubles - oil and gas budget revenues in May. The overrun still fell short of the government’s hopes and was offset by subsidy payments to oil companies.
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3) 58 participants - the number of war participants who won in State Duma “primaries” of the ruling United Russia party. The opposition New People party also announced that it would nominate at least 10 war participants.
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