Editorial paper at Robert Lansing Institute

Russia’s “Internet Kill Switch” Export: How Moscow Helped Iran Crush Protests

Russia allegedly helped Iran disable mobile communications and isolate the country from the global Internet as mass anti-government protests escalated into the most serious domestic challenge the Islamic Republic has…

January 16, 2026Cyberattacks, Iran, Russia

Governance

Intelligence reform in Argentina under Milei

On January 2, 2026, President Javier Milei published an emergency decree (DNU 941/2025) amending Argentina’s National Intelligence Law (Law 25,520) and reorganizing the intelligence system around SIDE (Secretaría de Inteligencia del Estado). The…

January 15, 2026Argentina

Governance

Senior U.S. Cyber Operator Removed from Russia Task Force: Reasons, drivers, and operational consequences for U.S. cyber posture toward Moscow

The removal “for cause” of Air Force Lt. Col. Jason Gargan—commander of a CNMF joint task force aligned against Russia—signals an unusually sharp leadership rupture inside the Pentagon’s elite cyber…

January 15, 2026CNMF, Cyberattacks, USA

Intelligence ops Warfare

Pentagon Acquisition of a Suspected “Havana Syndrome” Device: Evidence Convergence, Russian Signatures, and the GRU’s Directed-Energy Playbook

New CNN reporting indicates that the U.S. Department of Defense—via a covert procurement involving Homeland Security Investigations (HSI)—acquired and tested a portable device believed by some investigators to be linked…

January 14, 2026GRU, Havana Syndrome, Russia, USA

Geopolitics

Moscow’s “Greenland” Provocation: How Russia Raises the Political Cost of the U.S. Arctic Strategy

Dmitry Medvedev’s statements should be viewed as an instrument of information pressure designed to destabilize the U.S. position by imposing a toxic Greenland-related agenda on Washington. Russia is reframing the…

January 14, 2026Greenland, Russia, USA

Geopolitics Intelligence ops Psyops

Russia Expands Its “Russian Houses” Network in Africa — and Staffs It With Former Mercenaries

Yevgeny Primakov Jr., head of Rossotrudnichestvo, claims that the Wagner Group was involved in opening “Russian Houses” in the Central African Republic (CAR) and Mali. It is also reported that around 26…

January 13, 2026Africa, Russia, Wagner Group

Conflict Governance

Wagner’s Blowback in the Central African Republic: Fresh Violence Tests Touadéra’s Third Mandate

Just days after being sworn in for a third term, Central African Republic (CAR) President Faustin-Archange Touadéra is facing a destabilizing spike in violence in the country’s remote south-east, where…

January 12, 2026CAR, Wagner Group

Democracy Governance

Diaspora power and the 2025 Kosovo elections

Mandate, Momentum, and a Democratic Dilemma The December 2025 snap parliamentary elections in Kosovo marked a turning point after nearly a year of institutional paralysis. Vetëvendosje (VV), led by Albin Kurti,…

January 12, 2026Kosovo

Geopolitics Warfare

Exporting Risk: Russia’s Missile Strategy to Stretch U.S. Power From Ukraine to the Gulf

The Asia Live reports that even if the alleged transfer of Iskander missile systems to Iran is merely an element of an information-psychological operation, the very strategy of “managed uncertainty” is already creating…

January 12, 2026

Drug trafficking Governance National Security Warfare

Trump’s Threats to “Hit Land” in Mexico: Escalation Logic, Operational Limits, and Political Effects

In early January 2026, President Donald Trump signaled that the U.S. would begin “hitting land” against drug cartels, asserting that cartels are “running Mexico,” and suggesting that military action could…

January 9, 2026Mexico, USA

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