This episode of Pendulum's The Swing, hosted by Heather Bakken, features Peeter Tali, who is a member of Estonia's parliament and former head of the Estonian Ministry of Defence's Strategic Communications Department, alongside Balkan Devlen, principal in Pendulum's geopolitical practice and a leading Canadian expert on international security, NATO, and geopolitical risk.

Drawing on Estonia's front-line experience countering the weaponization of information, Tali shares practical lessons for building civilian resiliency, including embedding media literacy, AI awareness, and civics education into school curricula, as well as fostering the national pride and cultural touchstones that adversaries so often target.

Devlen underscores that democracies must not only talk about allied cooperation but actively invest in it, echoing Benjamin Fra ...