Howell also shared an episode of the Lawfare Podcast in which Priess sat down with Antti Ruokonen to talk about the dangers of treating Finlandization as a model for Ukraine and how Finland's own experience under this model resulted in the long-term subjugation of its politics to the will of its authoritarian neighbor: Robert Chesney and Steve Vladeck shared an episode of the National Security Law Podcast in which they discussed the latest national security legal news,… [read post]

David Priess sat down with Antti Ruokonen, who wrote an article recently for Lawfare titled, “Why Finlandization is a Terrible Model for Ukraine. [read post]

Lester Munson shared a conversation on the Fault Lines Podcast with Jim Danoy, NSI Visiting Fellow and former Defense Intelligence executive, about the role of the Intelligence Community in pandemics and whether the Department of Health and Human Services is part of the Intelligence Community: Antti Ruokonen argued that decaying infrastructure can present serious national security vulnerabilities, not just local health and economic problems. [read post]