Kremlin using intelligence operations, direct action to attack European supply chain, this isn’t really Cold War stuff, this is Hot War stuff nytimes.com/2019/12/22/wor…
GRU operations, directed killings and poisoning have been going on for years now. This is what a weak NATO, weak EU, weak 🇺🇸 looks like. Russian intel, military, information and business arms working seamlessly to advance Putin’s goals
Two decades of US Counterrorism obsession, heavy reliance on military to solve all problems showing now as USG flat footed as Kremlin has its way in Eastern EU, Africa, Levant and soon in Latin America
Simultaneously, Trump admin is/has disabled US intel community, hurt Five Eyes intel sharing, degraded the State department from within. Trump getting hot takes directly from Putin - this will turn real bad some day soon. US businesses working abroad should worry
Hypothetical scenario: US businessperson servicing USG contract support services to Ukraine, falls ill from mysterious virus/poison. Hospitalized for months, never full recovers. If it were traced back to Kremlin, do you think Trump admin would do anything?
And many thought I was exaggerating a few years back (Minute 5:56). Does anyone doubt this now? c-span.org/video/?c466439…
Putin will continue his campaigns and increase aggression in each interval until he met by hard resistance. Let’s call it “Newton’s 3rd Law of Kremlin Subversion”: keep pushing aggressive action until there’s an equal and opposing reaction. 🇺🇸 & the West have not reacted.
