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cross-posted from: https://scribe.disroot.org/post/12376599

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A rising number of sabotage acts, arson attacks and other destabilising actions in Europe have been linked to Russia. Such incidents have been dubbed hybrid attacks, as they do not meet the threshold of military aggression.

“Hybrid is too soft [a] word for this,” Estonia’s interior minister Igor Taro told the FT. “It’s state-sponsored terrorism.”

“Russia is the biggest challenge and biggest threat to Europe . . . And they have been attacking Europe constantly. They’re just doing it below the military threshold but they are doing it constantly.” He added: “They are direct attacks on our critical infrastructure, on our military-related or defence-related objects.”

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Taro estimated that generally, Russia was responsible for 90 per cent of internal security issues in Estonia, with 5 per cent attributable to China and the rest to other actors.

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  • magnue@lemmy.world
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    45 minutes ago

    What Russia like to do is basically prod at the article 5 trigger for NATO. They want one of these border countries ideally to try to invoke article 5 over something that is debatable. If NATO intervene they will suffer heavy losses on presighted territory (so NATO almost definitely wouldn’t) and Russia could claim NATO was the aggressor. If NATO doesn’t intervene, the agreement gets a little bit weaker. A perfect situation would be that they annex a small part of one of these Baltic countries using military disguised as some kind of civilian uprising (like the Donbass) and NATO do absolutely nothing.

    NATO is an agreement after all. If the agreement fails, NATO doesn’t actually even exist.