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But the tactic proved fruitful: Attacks like that in Leyton are cheap to set up, often deniable, and below the threshold likely to trigger a response under NATO’s Article 5.
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Christian Edwards, CNN Money, 8 July 2025
Tehran's likely response: narrower, deniable attacks through cyber disruption, cable sabotage, and low-altitude drones.
—Guney Yildiz, Forbes.com, 24 June 2025
By shifting the burden invisibly into everyday transactions, perhaps the logic goes, the tangible pain of an April 15th tax bill is disaggregated into a series of small, deniable pains and externalizable pains at the grocery store.
—Andrew Leahey, Forbes.com, 29 Apr. 2025
The problem with using that example to argue that the West has been too cautious in Ukraine is that U.S. support in Afghanistan in the 1980s was designed to be plausibly deniable.
—Michael Poznansky, Foreign Affairs, 3 Jan. 2025
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Christian Edwards, CNN Money, 8 July 2025
Tehran's likely response: narrower, deniable attacks through cyber disruption, cable sabotage, and low-altitude drones.
—Guney Yildiz, Forbes.com, 24 June 2025
By shifting the burden invisibly into everyday transactions, perhaps the logic goes, the tangible pain of an April 15th tax bill is disaggregated into a series of small, deniable pains and externalizable pains at the grocery store.
—Andrew Leahey, Forbes.com, 29 Apr. 2025
The problem with using that example to argue that the West has been too cautious in Ukraine is that U.S. support in Afghanistan in the 1980s was designed to be plausibly deniable.
—Michael Poznansky, Foreign Affairs, 3 Jan. 2025
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“Deniable.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/deniable. Accessed 19 Jul. 2025.
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