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It's Monday, October 31st. |
Bolsonaro Defeated in Brazil
Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro narrowly lost the presidential election to his leftist challenger, Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, on Sunday, and the far-right leader has not commented publicly since election results were announced—worrying Brazilians that he may not accept defeat, as the NYT reports. |
Russia Targets Infrastructure
Russian forces launched a wave of missile strikes across Ukraine on Monday that knocked out electricity and water supplies in Kyiv and other cities, just as the country was recovering from the damage inflicted in the Kremlin’s recent attacks on civilian infrastructure, as the WSJ reports. |
Biden Urges Congress to Tax Oil Companies’ Profits
President Biden will urge Congress to punish oil companies with higher taxes unless they increase output to bring down prices at the pump, as the FT reports. |
Executive Education
U.S. and Eurasian Security: The Challenges Ahead is a new program that will give participants a competitive advantage through in-depth analysis and insights into the major challenges to U.S. security across Eurasia. |
Video Shorts
Check out CSIS’s new series of video shorts: “Data Unpacked,” “Testify,” “What's Happening,” “Preview,” and “High Resolution.” And don’t forget to subscribe to the CSIS YouTube Channel! |
In That Number
50
Shortly after 8:00 a.m. this morning, Russian forces fired over 50 missiles across Ukraine. Ukrainian officials noted that most were intercepted by air defenses.
Source: Wall Street Journal
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Critical Quote
“The will of the majority expressed at the polls should never be challenged, and we will move forward in building a sovereign, just country with less inequality.”
— Arthur Lira, Brazil’s Speaker of the House and Bolsonaro ally |
iDeas Lab
The CSIS Ukraine Economic Reconstruction Commission discusses the economic potential of Ukraine, the private sector's critical role in Ukraine's reconstruction, and what a successful reconstruction would look like.
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Optics
(Photo credit: Alexandre Schneider/Stringer/Getty Images.) Luiz Inácio Lula Da Silva speaks after being elected president of Brazil over incumbent Bolsonaro by a thin margin in the runoff yesterday on October 30, 2022 in São Paulo, Brazil. |
Recommended Reading
"Force Structure in the National Defense Strategy: Highly Capable but Smaller and Less Global" by CSIS's Mark F. Cancian. |
This Town Tomorrow
At 10:00 a.m., CSIS hosts a conversation on CISA's Strategic Plan for 2023 - 2025 and the future of U.S. cyber and infrastructure security.
And, at 9:00 a.m., Brookings holds a panel examining emerging and evolving military technologies on the battlefield in Ukraine.
Later, at 2:00 p.m., the Atlantic Council hosts a discussion on key findings and questions raised in the Biden administration’s 2022 Nuclear Posture Review.
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Video
Last Friday, the CSIS Strategic Technologies Program hosted a discussion with Chris Inglis and Anne Neuberger on the Biden-Harris administration's work to strengthen U.S. cybersecurity. Watch the full event here. |
Podcasts
 CSIS’s Joseph Majkut and Jon Alterman join the podcast to deconstruct Saudi Arabia’s recent push to slash oil production and what it means for the United States, our allies, and the global energy landscape.
Listen on Spotify & Apple Podcasts.
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Smiles
Without question, the scariest music for Halloween is “I Put A Spell On You” by the incomparable Screamin’ Jay Hawkins.
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