Jack Margolin
@Jack_Mrgln
Personal acct. Conflict finance, guns, crime in data/PAI. Author of THE WAGNER GROUP https://reaktionbooks.co.uk/work/the-wagner-group.
“It’s a tale of violence and political intrigue that reads like a Tom Clancy novel written by Fyodor Dostoyevsky.” Read @ArthurLHerman ‘s review of my new book in WSJ wsj.com/world/russia/t…
Giving credit where it is due. There is a good deal of positive sentiment in Ukraine about this interceptor. If employment can be scaled, alongside similar systems, then it can help answer the challenge posed by Russian OWA drones.
Ekonomichna pravda reports that the interceptor UAV made by former Google CEO Eric Schmidt's Swift Beat company is responsible for approximately 90% of Shahed OWA that are downed by UAVs. epravda.com.ua/oborona/milyar…
Incredible. Zelensky's handpicked prosecutor general, Ruslan Kravchenko, said he did not ask to increase his powers and take over control of NABU and SAPO. He learned it was happening from the Telegram channel of Holos party MP Yaroslav Zheleznyak. pravda.com.ua/news/2025/07/2…
"Shame!" shouted many Ukrainian lawmakers as a majority formed from Zelensky's ruling party, pro-Russian oppo bloc & Yulia Tymoshenko's Batkivshchyna voted to, in effect, dismantle Ukraine's independent anticorruption institutions. My story on a grim day: ft.com/content/21cf3d…
"their role in the production of rare earths, & especially of dysprosium & terbium, is now significant enough that millions of consumers worldwide will soon be using products that contain material mined from their territory" bloomberg.com/news/features/…
If you want to build a proliferated sensor network, a problem arises: where do you put them? You want to minimize the number used to cover a certain area. On first thought, you'd imagine that some kind of hexagonal mesh would be a good approach.
Low-footprint passive sensors, even if just for cueing, could make a difference for a lot of missile defense engagement scenarios.
An HIV doctor in Africa, whose work depends on USAID and PEPFAR, sends in a dispatch of the bleak situation now unfolding there thebulwark.com/p/a-religious-…
“To interview you just need to download a .zip, unpack the application and run it.” That’s a great way to train people to download and run malware.
3 months ago, @im_roy_lee dropped out of Columbia to build Cluely. This weekend @AntonioSitongLi and I (students at Columbia) built Truely — the Anti-Cluely: An open-source tool that monitors your calls to see if you’re talking to a real person.
Russian forces guided an FPV drone and killed a 14 month old baby inside his home with his great grandmother in Kherson today. I won’t post the picture. Russian drone units terrorizing this region’s civilians are twisted and sick.
The situation with Russians killing a toddler with a drone is especially despicable when you realize this wasn’t a stray artillery shell that landed 50 meters off, or a Shahed drone that hit a tall building, but an FPV drone, guided in real time by an operator watching it live
Smartwatches and fitness apps are quietly exposing sensitive info. Swedish PM’s security detail leaked his movements via Strava. Meanwhile, COROS watches found vulnerable to Bluetooth hijack. If you’re in NatSec, leave the tech at home. (Read Below) watchesofespionage.com/blogs/woe-disp…
Hilo recopilatorio: EL AK-103 (y otras armas Venezolanas) EN MANOS DE IRREGULARES COLOMBIANOS. En este hilo recopilaré muestras públicas, pasadas y futuras, de armas de uso oficial por las Fuerzas Armadas Venezolanas en manos de BACRIM y grupos irregulares colombianos.
Most likely he knew he would be arrested and sent off for a long time
BREAKING: Roman Starovoit, 53, who was dismissed today as head of the Russian Ministry of Transport, has died by suicide at his home in Odintsovo near Moscow, acc. to Telegram channels Shot and 112. A firearm was reportedly found. Starovoit previously served as governor of the…
Interesting reflection from two Biden NSC veterans on Ukrainian drone innovation. "Having never experienced this form of combat, most countries in the world, including the United States, are now far behind the Ukrainians in this regard." foreignaffairs.com/russia/ukraine…
Been brewing since before the invasion, amazing what refusing to invest enough into export infrastructure did before China oversupply became a problem…
While a smaller contributor to GDP than oil and gas, Russia's coal industry is still a critical sector for dozens of single-industry towns where it employs hundreds of thousands of workers. Putin faces coal crisis in Russia newsweek.com/russia-coal-ex…
Come see me at the Hertford Literary Festival this Friday where I’ll be discussing Wagner and all things mercenary! @HertfordLitFest
About an hour’s drive from Ruby Ridge.
BREAKING: Firefighters were ambushed by a gunman while responding to a brush fire in Coeur d'Alene, Idaho, Kootenai County Sheriff's Lt. Jeff Howard said. abcnews.link/9WbUkC7
Russian soldiers are using watches that receive information from drone detectors that can be mounted on vehicles about incoming UAVs. facebook.com/Serhii.Flash/p…