Moscow has launched an aggressive campaign to recruit spies inside NATO in a high-stakes shadow war.
… Defense and National Security Correspondent John T. Seward was recently in Narva, Estonia, and has an exclusive report on what officials there described as KGB-style tactics reminiscent of the Soviet era to threaten and coerce people into spying on Estonia.
… The House passed a bill to aid Ukraine and sanction key segments of the Russian economy.
… Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy wrote an open letter to Russian President Vladimir Putin and proposed face-to-face peace talks.
… The latest episode of the Threat Status podcast, which dropped this morning, explains how robots are at the center of U.S.-China great power competition.
… Members of Congress want to know whether foreign influence campaigns are driving U.S. opposition to new data centers.
… Some pro-artificial intelligence groups say bot-driven social media messages, likely originating from China, are stoking the anti-data center sentiment.
… The U.S. and Taiwanese militaries would struggle to fight together, retired Rear Adm. Mark Montgomery argues in a new piece examining what a joint campaign might look like.
… President Trump says William J. Pulte would only serve temporarily as the acting director of National Intelligence.
… And Chinese President Xi Jinping will visit North Korean leader Kim Jong-un in Pyongyang next week.
