Until recently the biggest source of global conflict had to do with energy, oil, and gas resources, but today data is more valuable, and much more disruptive.  The bits and bytes of the information revolution are, it turns out, are disruptive economically and geopolitically.  In The Economist’s words highlighting this tectonic shift: “Data are to this century what oil was to the last one: a driver of growth and change.”  That change is coming swiftly, and -- in the coming years -- violently.  Governments are slow to recognize this fact. It is nonetheless jumping out and slapping them in the face.  Data can be captured, mined, processed and sold -- it can also be routed, rerouted, ’listened’ to and stolen.  Nord Stream 2 and the conflict between Russia and Europe gets all the attention, but there is another -- digital -- conflict between Russia and one of its smallest neighbors that is just as important and...(Read Full Article)