  The stringy realization of generalized symmetry operators involves wrapping
"branes at infinity". We argue that in the case of continuous (as opposed to
discrete) symmetries, the appropriate objects are fluxbranes. We use this
perspective to revisit the phase structure of Verlinde's monopole, a proposed
particle which is BPS when gravity is decoupled, but is non-BPS and metastable
when gravity is switched on. Geometrically, this monopole is obtained from
branes wrapped on locally stable but globally trivial cycles of a
compactification geometry. The fluxbrane picture allows us to characterize
electric (resp. magnetic) confinement (resp. screening) in the 4D theory as a
result of monopole decay. In the presence of the fluxbrane, this decay also
creates lower-dimensional fluxbranes, which in the field theory is interpreted
as the creation of an additional topological field theory sector.
