The aim would be to cultivate deniable "proxies" with which to intimidate political opponents.

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Deploying jihadis is cheap, easy and somewhat deniable if things go wrong.

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This incessant march of energy density (more energy per unit of raw material) has undeniable logic, deniable only by the illogical or irrational.

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All of these operations had to be deniable.

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The ranks of the Russian mafia were swelled by such operatives after the USSR collapsed and those "power ministry" veterans who now populate virtually every key position in Putin's regime have found it expedient to use their erstwhile colleagues in the underworld as surrogates in wielding state power in "plausibly deniable" ways.

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