Nato is considering being “more aggressive” in responding to Russia’s cyber attacks, sabotage and airspace violations, according to the alliance’s most senior military officer.
Admiral Giuseppe Cavo Dragone told the Financial Times that the western military alliance was looking at stepping up its response to hybrid warfare from Moscow.
“We are studying everything . . . On cyber, we are kind of reactive. Being more aggressive or being proactive instead of reactive is something that we are thinking about,” said Dragone, who is chair of Nato’s military committee.
Europe has been hit by numerous hybrid war incidents — some attributed to Russia and others unclear — from the cutting of cables in the Baltic Sea to cyber attacks across the continent.
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Dragone said that a “pre-emptive strike” could be considered a “defensive action”, but added: “It is further away from our normal way of thinking and behaviour.”
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A Baltic diplomat said: “If all we do is continue being reactive, we just invite Russia to keep trying, keep hurting us. Especially when hybrid warfare is asymmetric — it costs them little, and us a lot. We need to try to be more inventive.”
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Great advice. Those millions dying in all the wars in world history should’ve just got gud, huh? /s
Mandatory military service
Not for long if Europe goes into open war with Russia. You can bet on that.
Will probably need to do that, yes. Still not a fan of uprooting my (and my family’s) whole life.
Safe from what, exactly? From Russia? Russia doesn’t plan on attacking Europe. And even if: it’s not like capitalism is that much different if done in Russian.
Except that they ALREADY have attacked Europe, TWICE in the last decade. You are a delusional person, keep sucking up that Russian propaganda.
Fyi, Ukraine is in Europe.
Russia has also invaded NATO aligned airspace, cut infrastructure lines in the ocean, likely blew up a critical fuel pipeline, continues aggressive cyber warfare, bombed a railway in Poland, and pays for bots and misinformation campaigns and supports right wing fascism in the US and EU.
I.e. Europe has been under Russian attack for at least a decade now.
I don’t really care arguing the semantics whether or not Ukraine counts as “Europe” (it sure didn’t count as European before 2022).
Russia has no interest in attacking any EU country, then. 🙄
Yep, that says everything. Did the Russian bot run out of propaganda points?
If Ukraine is not in Europe, where the hell is it? Asia? LOL
It is in Europe, and always was in Europe, since the beginning of the European continent.
Discussions are so much easier to win if you’re just ripping the complete context from a message, amirite? /s
Would you count Russia as European?
I’ll repeat: Russia doesn’t have any interest in attacking any EU country. Claiming they do is propaganda.
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Then why tf did you ask the question? You asked I answered. Or did you forget that you asked? That would explain a lot.
Ukraine is full of Russian tanks.
Russia is also waging a hybrid warfare against NATO members, just read my previous comments, since you clearly haven’t.
And how exactly does it help the west? I explained how your propaganda helps Russians.
Facts are that Russia is more and more aggressive towards Europe waging hybrid warfare. Trump is Putin’s lackey. So what options does EU have to defend themselves?
Wait until Russian tanks attack and then start thinking about how to defend themselves?
Empty claims. Did you even go to school? Do you know how debating works? Did no one teach you to provide arguments for your claims?
Oooooh I am so scared of this russian bot. Go ahead, since you clearly have no valid arguments to defend your propagandist views, this is your only chance to feel like you’ve won and get my comments dismantling your propaganda deleted.
Ukraine is not in the EU. The common narrative is that Russia will invade Poland, the Baltic states or even central Europe. I don’t believe that narrative. That doesn’t make me a russian propagandist.
You mean that wikipedia article full of allegations? The one that also mentions the attacks on nordstream which were probably done by Ukraine?
I don’t care enough for your tone to look up what you wrote. Russia has no interest in invading the EU, then.
Makes the population prepared for war with Russia.
Most of those are allegations. It can also be seen as retaliation against economic warfare. And I was referring to attack as in military warfare.
Europe can “defend itself” well enough already. Also: Europe’s defense is not my concern. Europe’s interests are different from mine.
Uh, the person you’re responding to is wrong. Pretty much all (if not actually all, since Belarus is kinda hard to count, so if you count it as Russia as well then Belarus neighbour states don’t all but) nations bordering Russia do have conscription.
We Finns never let go of ours and even Poland has only had like a 15 year break.
We’re ready motherfuckers
What you mean is Russia won’t launch an all-out offensive because it knows it would lose and possibly trigger nuclear holocaust. Which is why Russia is forced to attack in these cowardly ways of manipulating media, cutting undersea cables and even using terrorism to strike civilians.