Moscowโs operations have escalated across the continent, from employing thugs for hits in sympathetic countries to massive covert campaigns to sow havoc.
Whether it be daylight assassinations, attempted coups, or paying off right-wing aka nazis aka republicans both the scale and the scope of Russiaโs covert operations abroad have now reached a level not seen since the height of the Cold War.
The Kremlin's "active measures" against Europe and the US constitute a significant front in the Kremlin's war with Western democratic governments.
@aggualaqisaaq
A reminder to the west. Russia is fighting a war against all of the west. Ukraine is the the main battlefield. Supporting Ukraine is self preservation #Ukraine
Western weakness with regard to Ukraine โ failure to deliver whatโs necessary โ is understood by Russia and China as failure to stand up for own interest, which is provoking more aggression to test US and partners. Chinaโs escalation in the South China Sea follows from that.
For 10 years, #NATO should have been providing defensive air cover to protect #Ukraine from #Russian missiles, bombs and drones, once they are in Ukranian airspace.
Can someone tell me why (other than toothless saber rattling from #Putin) that prevents this from happening?
Does anyone think Putin would attack bases where NATO planes are launched from? Really?
@SocraticEthics
Wow, Germany actually arrests people for espionage instead of putting them on the ballot for president? I wish that I lived in a sensible country where espionage is punished. What an exotic land Germany must be.
Swedish authorities say #Russia is behind โharmful interferenceโ deliberately targeting the Nordic countryโs satellite networks that it first noted days after joining #NATO earlier this year.
#Sweden said interference from Russia and #Crimea has targeted three different Sirius satellite networks situated at the orbital position of 5-degrees east. That location is one of the major satellite positions serving Nordic countries and eastern Europe.
Finnish intelligence source: Almost all the ground forces in #Russia's immediate area to #Finland are now in #Ukraine.
"On average, 80 percent of the equipment and soldiers have been transferred to the war in Ukraine".
According to an intelligence source, Russian bases in other parts of Russia have also suffered an equally heavy loss. Only in the #Moscow region, the war of aggression against Ukraine has not taxed the crew and armament as much.