Russia’s massive and growing hybrid attacks against European NATO members must be called what they are: deliberate and ongoing acts of war against Western nations that support Ukraine.
With the full-scale phase of the Russo-Ukrainian war soon to enter its fourth year, Vladimir Putin is so frustrated that, according to multiple reports, he is turning on his inner circle, including longtime senior confidant Sergey Lavrov. These reports have fueled speculation about turmoil inside the Kremlin. But Putin’s frustration is understandable, given that his spies and generals promised him Kyiv would fall in a week, and many Western intelligence services expected the same. Instead, due to gross incompetence, widespread corruption, and extremely low morale, he finds himself in a quagmire of his own making. According to Ukrainian and Western intelligence estimates, more than 1 million Russian soldiers have been killed or wounded and more than 10,000 tanks and other major ground combat vehicles destroyed. Putin’s only strategy seems to be more of the same, with one major exception.
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