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Netherlands F-35 aircraft and ships during Operation ‘Baltic Sentry’ Royal Netherlands Navy The Strategic Opportunity President Trump has an opportunity to accelerate an end to Russia’s war against Ukraine. Drawing on the logic of his pressure campaign against Iran, he could initiate a Baltic air and maritime pressure campaign that incentivizes Vladimir Putin to move to the bargaining table. The United States need not choose between accepting stalemate, providing aid to Ukraine indefinitely, or escalating directly against Russian forces. It can instead lead NATO and EU partners in a disciplined sanctions-enforcement campaign in the Baltic Sea that takes action on the vessels, cargoes, port services, insurance arrangements, and financial networks that are sustaining Russia’s war machine. That is the central strategic point: a Baltic Sea pressure campaign would give Washington
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Western governments spent three years building what they believed was an airtight financial blockade around Russia, severing its banks from SWIFT, freezing sovereign reserves, and barring major institutions from clearing dollar transactions. And according to British authorities, Russia may have spent much of that same period engineering an alternative financial system designed to circumvent it entirely. On May 26, the UK’s Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office sanctioned 18 entities and individuals, including Huobi (HTX), a Justin Sun-advised exchange that processed $3.3 trillion in trading volume in 2025, and a Kyrgyzstan-linked stablecoin issuer, for allegedly helping Russia evade Western restrictions. What distinguishes this package of sanctions from previous attempts is the legal instrument Britain reached for. For the first time, the UK appli
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In brief A new executive order tasks federal regulators with tightening fraud screening and limiting credit lines for undocumented immigrants. Experts say the policy mirrors an alleged plot under the Biden administration to choke crypto firms—and the driving force behind the creation of World Liberty Financial. Critics warn that freezing millions out of the traditional banking system could backfire by benefiting organized crime or provoking future retaliation. When President Donald Trump’s family faced growing pressure from banks, it embraced crypto. Now, immigrants who are in the U.S. illegally face a similar choice under what policy experts describe as a move that could force people out of the traditional banking system. On May 19, the president issued an executive order “to restore integrity to America’s financial system.” In the name of national secur
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Ripple CTO Emeritus David Schwartz weighed in on how resilient the XRP Ledger is to nation-states interfering with blockchain networks this week. His remarks responded to queries of Russia using the XRPL to bypass traditional systems. David Schwartz Responds To Fears of Russia Exploiting XRP Ledger One X user wrote, “I am concerned about geopolitical security. How resilient is the XRPL consensus mechanism against state-level interference? They also asked, “Could an authoritarian regime like Putin’s co-opt or disrupt the UNL/validator network to weaponize the ledger?” In response to the conversation, Schwartz agreed that governments might be able to pose short-term issues to blockchain networks. However, he noted that such disruptions may not cause long-term harm. “It would not surprise me if state level actors could cause temporary disruptions of blockc
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A newly constructed data center in Middenmeer, the Netherlands. getty After years of relatively flat power consumption in many advanced economies, utilities are revising load forecasts upward, and data centers are competing for grid connections. In Northern Virginia, in the data center valley, it might take 14 years for a data center to gain access to the grid. Yet, the electrons are needed now. Many pundits fear: AI will break the grid. This argument misses one important feature of electric systems: demand growth also drives adaptation. Electricity demand is far from a fixed number that utilities simply need to satisfy by simply adding more power plants. New generation will be needed, but modern power systems also adapt through efficiency improvements, short- and long-term storage, demand flexibility, and better utilization of existing infrastructure. I sat down with leaders a
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Homepage > News > Business > UK targets Russian sanctions evasion in digital asset sector The United Kingdom’s Foreign Secretary, Yvette Cooper, has announced new sanctions targeting digital currency in a bid to shut off “financial lifelines that sustain Putin’s war machine,” including adding digital asset exchange HTX to the country’s list of sanctioned entities over its support of Russia. On May 26, the U.K. Foreign Office revealed it would be ramping up measures against digital asset networks used to bypass Britain’s sanctions, in an effort to prevent Russia from exploiting the sector to circumvent the heavy economic sanctions placed on the country since its illegal invasion of Ukraine in February 2022. “If the Kremlin thinks it can evade our sanctions by hiding behind crypto networks and shadow financial systems, it is gravely mistaken,” Foreign Secretary Cooper said in a May
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