Kommentar: Putin zwingt Europa einen Schattenkrieg auf
Europas Schwäche ist für Russland eine Einladung zur Aggression. Der Schlüssel für eine wirksame Abschreckungsstrategie ist die Reform der deutschen Nachrichtendienste.
Russia's threats intertwine with mockery: "We will intensify our methods to destroy everything that feeds Kyiv's war machine from the West. And we are already doing so." Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov addressed Europe last Friday with these words. Moscow's leadership is no longer attempting to hide its sabotage campaign against Ukraine's partner states.
Instead, it boasts of it. Russia can count on Berlin, Paris, Rome, and Brussels to express only their "deep concern" thus far. Weakness is an invitation to aggression: the greatest problem of European Russian policy. The attempt to avoid escalation with Moscow is understandable – no one wants military confrontation with Russia. However, when caution in the face of ongoing provocations turns into fear of escalation, it can become an escalator itself.
Thus, the moment has arrived when Europeans must no longer tolerate Russian machinations. They must demonstrate a clear response.
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