Summary
Europol reports that Russia and other state actors are using criminal networks to conduct sabotage, cyber-attacks, and migrant smuggling to destabilize the EU.
The agency’s 2025 threat assessment describes a “shadow alliance” where criminals act as proxies for state-backed hybrid threats. Recent attacks, including arson in Lithuania and Poland, have been linked to Russian intelligence.
Officials warn of ongoing security risks, including AI-driven cybercrime.
Europol says these tactics aim to weaken institutions through persistent disruptions rather than large-scale attacks.
There are people right here on this platform pushing Russian misinformation. Look into the Russian strategist Surkhov.
We’re all but at war with Russia and yet almost everyone is so apathetic and defeatist. Ask yourself why.
Last century I read part of a CIA manual on operating in foreign-countries…
it insisted that doing things through local-organized-crime was ideal, as
So, Russia & the US both use the same manual then?
Who’s the Good Guys, if everybody is doing this, this way??
Machiavellianism wins, doesn’t it?
Unfortunately, yes, it does.
I happen to want NONmachiavellianism winning, permanently, from now on.
got no traction, for that, though…
not yet, anyways…
maybe if we dig-in, & work, & work, & work, for years, maybe future-generations can have the world we could have made…
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PS: Russia’s been acting to increase the refugee-loading on Europe as a destabilizing-method, for … decades now??
This isn’t new.
The intensity may be new, but now he’s closer to winning the butchering of Europe, so this is to be expected…