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Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine in February 2022 was preceded by something less visible but equally deliberate: a sustained information offensive designed to paralyze Western decision-making, fracture allied cohesion, and make the invasion seem if not justified, then at least comprehensible to confused audiences. By the time Russian tanks crossed the border, the information war had already been running for years.

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The aim of Russian disinformation campaigns is not to convince audiences of a single false narrative. It is to generate doubt, confusion, and informational exhaustion. After Russia shot down Malaysia Airlines Flight MH17 in July 2014, killing 298 people, Russian-linked outlets promoted multiple mutually contradictory explanations — including Ukrainian responsibility and Western fabrication — within the same news cycle.

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Moscow’s foreign information manipulation is an integral component of its military doctrine, what Western analysts call the “Gerasimov doctrine” after Valery Gerasimov, Chief of the General Staff of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation. It views information warfare as a critical element of kinetic operations, deployed alongside cyberattacks, attacks on infrastructure, and covert action.

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The Kremlin’s disinformation system is sustained by serious institutional investment. State-controlled television network RT alone receives over €350 million per year in state subsidies. Russia’s 2025 and 2026 federal budgets each allocated approximately €1.5 billion to state-controlled media, a nearly 30 percent increase over 2021 levels. The Internet Research Agency’s Project Lakhta, the operation behind the 2016 U.S. election interference campaign, ran on a monthly budget of $1.25 million.

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European responses to Russian disinformation address important components of the problem, but they do not yet add up to a system. France’s VIGINUM, established in 2021, provides rule-based detection of foreign digital interference. EUvsDisinfo, run by the East StratCom Task Force, has documented and attributed pro-Kremlin narratives since 2015. During COVID-19, the Re-open EU platform demonstrated that a single authoritative information reference point can function effectively under pressure. Before Russia’s 2022 invasion, the United States and United Kingdom publicly released intelligence to pre-empt Russia’s planned false-flag narratives, a prebunking operation that complicated Moscow’s information strategy and helped sustain allied cohesion.

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Additionally, the EU’s most prominent counter-disinformation initiatives — including EUvsDisinfo and the European Digital Media Observatory — operate on budgets in the €2–11 million range per initiative. Even in aggregate, identifiable EU-level spending amounts to tens of millions to low hundreds of millions of euros.

The EU’s defenses, designed mostly for peacetime communications challenges, are now being tested by a wartime adversary, and they are not up to the challenge. In the brief, we describe three structural changes that could substantially improve Europe’s position.

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In fact, while running for the White House in 2024, Kennedy did speak at length about "reparenting" American children on wellness farms, which he proposed building in rural communities across the U.S. Kennedy raised the idea during a podcast interview in June of 2024 and again during a separate podcast conversation in July.

At times during the interviews, Kennedy appeared to embrace the scheme as a way to help a wide range of kids harmed by street drug addiction and what he described as over-prescription of anxiety and depression medications.

But Kennedy also spoke specifically about his vision for Black children. After making the false claim that "every Black kid is now just standard put on Adderall, SSRIs, benzos, which are known to induce violence" Kennedy offered what he described as a solution.

"Those kids are going to have a chance to go somewhere and get reparented and live in a community," he said.

But now Trump and you Republicans have now set the, to paraphrase Trump, presidence (sic) of Executive branch's ability, nay, duty to censor speech.

New lifer, and the first grosbeak I've seen. Fella was checking out the patio amenities before snacking on the feeder.

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The Newberry project, led by Mazama Energy with funding from the U.S. Department of Energy, has successfully created an enhanced geothermal system that circulates water through hard rock at record-breaking temperatures of 331 C.

This project represents a major milestone towards producing geothermal energy from water hotter than 375 C, where water changes to a supercritical state that carries five times more energy than the subcritical water typically circulated in geothermal projects.

Mine is "guinea pig" originating in andes (not guinea) and them being not-a-pig type, whole thing is just wrong.