2024-10-15
29 分钟Dozens of small acts of sabotage and arson have flared across Europe as part of Russia’s hybrid battle against the West. This week, we spoke with four experts on Europe and Russia at the Council on Foreign Relations in Washington, DC to try to make sense of the Russian campaign and what the West can do in response.
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Since the beginning of the year, small acts of sabotage have started appearing all over Europe.
A massive fire engulfed a shopping center in Warsaw, Poland.
In the UK, two men with alleged links to russian intelligence were charged with setting fire to a warehouse filled with aid for Ukraine.
In France, officials detained a russian ukrainian man for allegedly building bombs, an explosion.
Just north of Paris, raising alarms over.
They discovered him only after he appeared to have accidentally detonated one of his devices, after a homemade explosive device detonated.
In his hotel room near Charles de Gaulle airport.
And then last week, Josep Burrell, the vice president of the European Commission, finally said out loud what many officials had been saying.
Privately, these incidents were not isolated Russia.
It is a security threat.
They all appeared to be tied to Russia, and they looked to be part of a campaign to rattle the EU and undermine its support for Ukraine.
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I moderated a panel last week at the Council on Foreign Relations in Washington, DC, with four experts on Russia, and they talked about how, individually, these small border attacks across the continent seemed like random events.
And then it became clear it's about something much bigger, Russia's hybrid battle against the west.
Right?
So part of their objectives of all of these operations, I think, is to cause a general sense of chaos and fear and a degree of deterrence.
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