Marc Vendrell

Professor of Political Science, geostrategy and Intelligence Analysis.♟️
Academic Director at @LISA_Institute - Security, Intelligence and Geopolitics.

[Marc Vendrell @VendrellMarc]

Os presento mi nuevo libro 'La batalla invisible: Sun Tzu, Clausewitz y la guerra híbrida'. Con el Método NIEBLA para analizar conflictos. Aquellos a los que os interese cómo aplicar el pensamiento estratégico en los conflictos modernos, lo tenéis aquí: https://t.co/bczxAiZP8Y

[Maldita.es @maldita]

‼️La operación rusa ‘Matrioska’ lanza una campaña para interferir en las elecciones del 29N en España: separatismo de Cataluña, colapso europeo y la crisis de la vivienda

https://t.co/yCn0GVqL93

[The Political Room @Political_Room]

🇫🇷🇷🇺 Rusia intentó aprovechar los disturbios de Francia para desestabilizar al Gobierno.

Según una evaluación interna de la UE publicada por Reuters, la red rusa “Operación Overload” difundió vídeos que suplantaban a medios occidentales, algunos con bulos sobre inmigrantes que violaban a manifestantes o atentados inminentes. El objetivo: presentar al Gobierno francés como “débil y cada vez más autoritario”.

Un informe de Exteriores francés añade que cuentas vinculadas a Israel y al movimiento MAGA también difundieron “narrativas hostiles”. Sus diez publicaciones más vistas en X superaron los 35 y los 49 millones de visualizaciones, frente a los 2,8 millones de las prorrusas.

Foto: Jorge Jaramillo

[Fernando H. Valls 🗞️ @FernandoHValls]

🪖 España negocia con Alemania producir el caza de combate del futuro. Airbus e Indra asumirán el proyecto que evitaría depender de tecnología de Estados Unidos.

Una noticia, creo, importante. https://t.co/08vB6GuSwL

[Sabi Soltani @Sabi_SLTI]

Spain votes on Nov 29. Russia is already inside the conversation.

An 11-week OSINT investigation collected 54,737 posts across X, Telegram, Facebook, Instagram, TikTok and YouTube, mapped 10,773 accounts and 3,284 network links.

The headline isn't "disinformation." It's recruitment. A Spaniard in Moscow is openly hiring his own countrymen as informants, hackers and soldiers. In Spanish. During the campaign.

Around him, a ring of pro-Russian channels with ~500K subscriptions feeds ready-made narratives to ordinary Spaniards, deciding how every crisis gets explained before the facts arrive.

This is a national security problem dressed up as a media problem.

Full report:

[LISA Institute - Seguridad, Intel y Geopolítica @LISA_Institute]

🇷🇺 @VendrellMarc: "#Rusia busca asfixiar el #comercio marítimo del flanco este de la #UniónEuropea"

🔵 Nuestro director académico de las áreas de inteligencia y geopolítica fue entrevistado ayer en el programa Pulso Geopolítico de @rintereconomia 👇
https://t.co/DpjsaIu2gL

[Other Europe 🇪🇺 @other_europe]

The European Union, as we know it today, was born 33 years ago. 🇪🇺

On 1 November 1993, the Maastricht Treaty entered into force, officially establishing the European Union and laying the foundations for closer political, economic and social integration.

Happy birthday, Europe!

[Damian Low @DamianLow3]

Bravo New York Post. 👏

[Pau Gasol @paugasol]

¿Nos queda un buen equipo, no? 😉 ¡Mucha suerte a #LaFamilia en la temporada que empieza hoy! A por todas @santialdama, @Laaarry_14, @hugoglezz_, @_bmillxr_, Aday y Jordi 💪🏼

[Sandro 🇬🇪 @SandroG991]

I don’t think Europeans fully appreciate what is happening to the European Union right now.

The EU is under an extraordinary, multi-front assault, both from outside and from within. And I struggle to think of another period in its history when so many powerful actors had an interest in weakening it simultaneously.

Russia has spent years waging hybrid warfare against Europe. Weaponised migration, sabotage, cyberattacks, coordinated disinformation campaigns, bot networks and political interference. The objective is clear: undermine trust in democratic institutions, deepen social divisions and weaken European unity.

China has different motivations, primarily economic and geopolitical. A fragmented Europe is easier to pressure, easier to negotiate with individually and less capable of defending its economic interests.

And then there is the United States. Perhaps the most disturbing development of all.

Under Trump and MAGA, a country that helped rebuild the old continent and then spent decades supporting European integration now has an administration openly hostile to much of what the EU represents. Its own National Security Strategy even calls for cultivating resistance to Europe’s current political direction.

Think about that for a moment.

Meanwhile, within Europe, parts of the far right and far left amplify these divisions, whether through ideological alignment, political opportunism or outright sympathy for authoritarian regimes.

This doesn’t mean Russia, China and MAGA are all following some jointly coordinated master plan. They don’t have to. Their interests increasingly overlap, and Europe’s internal divisions make their work considerably easier.

What makes this particularly alarming is what is actually at stake.

For all its flaws, the EU remains one of the world’s most consequential projects built around liberal democracy, the rule of law, individual freedoms and cooperation between nations.

At a time when authoritarianism is gaining ground and even longstanding democracies are showing disturbing tendencies, that matters enormously.

Europe is far from perfect. Its bureaucracy, indecision and inability to act decisively are real problems. But the answer cannot be to retreat into 27 competing nation-states, each too small to meaningfully influence a world increasingly dominated by continental powers.

Quite the opposite.

Europe needs deeper integration, stronger common institutions, genuine strategic autonomy and the political courage to defend its interests and values.

Because fragmentation is precisely what so many external actors want.

And perhaps that’s the central irony of our time: people are being deliberately manipulated into believing that the reverse is true — that national identity and sovereignty can only be protected by weakening European cooperation. In reality, a divided Europe is less sovereign, less secure and far easier for outside powers to pressure. Therefore the very thing that will make Europe stronger is the thing its adversaries are working hardest to prevent.

A united Europe is a geopolitical power. A divided Europe is a collection of countries waiting to be played against one another.

[SergioLR🪖 @CasetaBosque]

Palabra por palabra. Coma por coma. Punto por punto.

La Primera Ministra de Italia 🇮🇹, Giorgia Meloni, sobre la necesidad de seguir ayudando a Ucrania 🇺🇦 contra la invasión rusa 🇷🇺:

“El apoyo a Ucrania no es una alternativa a la paz. Es lo que hace posible la paz.

Porque si el agresor puede aspirar a la rendición de su adversario, ¿qué necesidad tiene de negociar?

Si Ucrania dejara de defenderse mañana, como muchos esperan y proponen, no tendríamos paz.

Estaríamos debatiendo la ocupación de una nación europea y el retorno del imperialismo al estilo soviético que Europa experimentó durante medio siglo.”

[LucasMartin @LucasMartin1973]

Reflexión de lunes por la noche
A colación de los sucedido en Francia, Bélgica y Holanda en numerosos supermercados. Por si no nos hemos enterado: ESTAMOS EN GUERRA. Por el momento jugando en la ZONA GRIS. Pero en cualquier momento daremos el salto. Y ya es inevitable. Y a nosotros, ESPAÑA, se nos ha materializado la opción más peligrosa, porque estamos en guerra en dos frentes. Y quien no quiera verlo se va a llevar un mal rato.

[Daniel Iriarte @Danieliriarteo]

Esto es fascinante. Tras años de investigación, el director del medio árabe Al Majalla Ibrahim Hamidi ha localizado al oficial de contrainteligencia sirio Said Jawish, el hombre que capturó al espía israelí Eli Cohen. Aquí la entrevista en inglés.
https://t.co/sZax1rx9Ek

[Carlos Alcaraz @carlosalcaraz]

Europe take the cup! 🏆🇪🇺 Congrats to everyone and great work by the team! 🙌🏻 An amazing week as always! 💙 Vamos! @LaverCup

[rodrigo martin @rodrideckard]

Son drones que vienen huyendo del hambre.

[Argemino Barro @Argemino]

La CIA advirtió a varios gobiernos europeos de que Rusia planea un ataque con drones contra España, Francia o Italia.

Sería con drones Gerbera, cuyo alcance declarado es de 600 km, lanzados desde barcos.

Una exclusiva de @xaviercolas para @elmundoes:
https://t.co/iiDbJAAvjE

[Magnus Brunner @magnusbrunner]

Ceuta's borders are our common European borders.

Our priority remains clear: all those who entered illegally and have no right to stay must swiftly return.

We need to learn our lessons: close gaps, control our external borders, and preserve Schengen.

https://t.co/V1BMGcP53a

[NXT EU @NXT4EU]

Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland "belong in the European Union" according to a statement made by the nations.

Time to get back home 🇪🇺

[electomanía @electo_mania]

‼️#Canadá 🇨🇦: Mark Carney declara que su país está explorando las fórmulas para establecer una 'alianza única' con la Unión Europea 🇪🇺

El PM lo ha afirmado coincidiendo con las palabras de Trump 🇺🇸 catalogando a Canadá como "el peor país".

👇
https://t.co/TK0ICP6jjd

[Estefania Molina @EstefMolina_]

La empatía, la resiliencia, el amor al universo, los mandalas y el pinta y colorea. Matemáticas y lectura, ya si eso, para otro momento.

[LISA Institute - Seguridad, Intel y Geopolítica @LISA_Institute]

🔵 @VendrellMarc, director académico del área de #geopolítica de LISA Institute, participa en esta entrevista en @capitalradiob y analiza la crisis en #Ceuta desde la perspectiva de la #guerrahíbrida

Podéis ver la entrevista aquí 👇
https://t.co/TedjwpVXOT