Putin has chosen Britain as his number one enemy. His agents are already inside the UK, preparing to strike.
🧵Here are the three tools the Kremlin will use — and why he won't stop. [1/13]
Putin is a gangster, and he perceives someone else's weakness as an invitation to attack them.
Today, for Putin, Europe is a weak opponent.
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Russia has chosen the UK as its main enemy, marking it up as the force that stands behind everything that opposes Russia.
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Putin doesn't have the right force for a proper attack against the United Kingdom. He doesn't actually have enough military might left to attack the West today.
He also knows that the European army is very weak.
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Without Americans it wouldn't be able to defeat Russia. And he sees that the American army is not going to be waging campaigns against Putin on behalf of Europe.
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From this point of view, today, Europe is a temptation for Putin. A temptation, of course, not for a brutal attack but for a hybrid attack. Europe is undoubtedly a target.
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The standard way Putin operates is through finding internal conflicts that he can inflate, and using any available means to do that.
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1️⃣ The first tool is to use special forces called the GRU – an expensive and very dangerous force.
In the UK, their operations have been 50 per cent successful – they managed to kill Litvinenko but they were not successful in Salisbury.
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In other European countries like Germany, Russian assassination targets have all been successfully killed.
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2️⃣ The second tool is already being prepared:
It is the system of agents including foreign intelligence agents, the FSB. They will be used if there were an attack.
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3️⃣ The third option is using British criminals to outsource Russian attacks through social media:
This is the cheapest and weakest option, but it can be quite successful.
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On recent intelligence suggesting Russia's elite could oust Putin from power: an absolutely humorous statement that has nothing to do with reality.
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I think that unfortunately it is more likely that Putin will stay in power for five, seven or even 10 years.
All these years will be in a state of cold war and the main goal is to prevent it from becoming hot war.
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My full interview with The Sun is here: thesun.co.uk/news/39102788/…
I write on Russia, the Kremlin's operations abroad, and the path forward for a free Russia on Substack.
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