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Iran has been wildly hamstrung in the past six months, as its war with Israel, usually in the shadows or deniable, evolved into high-stakes and largely ineffective long-range missile attacks.
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Nick Paton Walsh, CNN, 7 Dec. 2024
Multiple security officials across Europe describe a threat that is metastasizing as Russian agents, increasingly under scrutiny by security services and frustrated in their own operations, hire local amateurs to undertake high-risk, and often deniable, crimes on their behalf.
—Tara John, CNN, 4 Nov. 2024
Policymakers can also use coercive tools that are more deniable or otherwise less visible to the public.
—Erik Lin-Greenberg, Foreign Affairs, 8 Oct. 2024
Limited, flexible, and nominally deniable interventions—often on behalf of distasteful partners that the West is unwilling to countenance—can establish Russian influence on the cheap and secure lucrative revenue streams, such as from gold mining.
—Frederic Wehrey, Foreign Affairs, 9 July 2024
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Nick Paton Walsh, CNN, 7 Dec. 2024
Multiple security officials across Europe describe a threat that is metastasizing as Russian agents, increasingly under scrutiny by security services and frustrated in their own operations, hire local amateurs to undertake high-risk, and often deniable, crimes on their behalf.
—Tara John, CNN, 4 Nov. 2024
Policymakers can also use coercive tools that are more deniable or otherwise less visible to the public.
—Erik Lin-Greenberg, Foreign Affairs, 8 Oct. 2024
Limited, flexible, and nominally deniable interventions—often on behalf of distasteful partners that the West is unwilling to countenance—can establish Russian influence on the cheap and secure lucrative revenue streams, such as from gold mining.
—Frederic Wehrey, Foreign Affairs, 9 July 2024
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“Deniable.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/deniable. Accessed 22 Dec. 2024.
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